No place for a King

Post anything about the Khmer Rouge Trials and you are like to be faced with an onslaught from the online community. There are bloggers out there who hate the idea because it involves the NGO and International community- and therefore must be bad. There are those who think that the whole KR period was nothing more than a US/Chinese/Vietnamese conspiracy and is focused on the wrong people. And there are those who think that the whole thing is nothing more than a money pit which will deliver nothing to anyone in the end. Publish an open blog and even if you are the King of the country, you may find yourself under attack from self appointed cyber warriors.

King-Father to stop publication of news articles

22 Sept 2006
By Pov Ponlok
Radio Free Asia

For monarch, King Norodom Sihanouk, had decided anew to stop the publication of all news articles detailing the last days of the Khmer Republic regime collected from news agencies such as AFP, UPI, AP, and Reuters, as well as daily articles regarding history, funny stories, etc…

In a message dated 21 Sept, the former monarch indicated that his decision was made because he received shames, threats, verbal attacks, and accusations, as well as numerous other graphical injustices.

The former monarch said that he has decided to permanently stop several other activities, such as the writing of movie scripts and other singing and dancing in order for him to live a normal life as a retired and old person.

Nevertheless, King Norodom Sihanouk said that he reserves the right to write and publish corrections and clarifications in order to preserve the truth when his honor forced him to do so.