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|+<big>'''HM King-Father Norodom Sihanouk'''</big><br>({{pronounced|nɔɾoːdɔm siːhanuʔ}} in Khmer)<br>(French pronunciation: [[Image:ltspkr.png]][[Media:Fr-Sihanouk.ogg|{{IPA|/noʀodɔm sjanuk/}}]])<br>
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| '''Time in office:'''
| [[April 25|Apr. 25]], 1941–[[March 2|Mar. 2]], 1955 (King)<br>[[March 2|Mar. 2]], 1955–[[June 5]], [[1960]] (Prime Minister under the kingship of his father)<br>[[June 5]], [[1960]]–[[March 18|Mar. 18]], 1970 ("Head of State" under the queenship of his mother)<br>[[August 19|Aug. 19]], 1975–[[April 2|Apr. 2]], 1976 (Head of State)<br> [[November 14|Nov. 14]], 1991–[[September 24|Sept. 24]], 1993 (Head of State)<br>[[September 24|Sept. 24]], 1993–[[October 7|Oct. 7]], 2004 (King, Khmer: ''Preahmâhaksat'')<br>[[October 20|Oct. 20]], 2004–present ("King-Father", Khmer: ''Preahmâhaviraksat'')
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| '''Predecessor:'''
| [[Sisowath Monivong]] (till 1941); <br>[[Chea Sim]] (till 1991)
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| '''Successor:'''
| [[Norodom Suramarit]] (in 1955); <br>[[Norodom Sihamoni]] (in 2004)
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| '''Date of Birth:'''
| [[October 31]], [[1922]]
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| '''Place of Birth:'''
| [[Phnom Penh]]
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{{Politics of Cambodia}}
King-Father '''Norodom Sihanouk''' ([[Khmer language|Khmer]]: [[Khmer alphabet#Style|Mul script]] [[Image:Sihanouk3.png|110px]]; [[Khmer alphabet#Style|regular script]] [[Image:Sihanouk4.png|90px]]; born [[October 31]], [[1922]]), [[King of Cambodia]] until his abdication on [[October 7]] [[2004]], is now "King-Father (Khmer: ''Preahmâhaviraksat'', see Names and titles section below) of Cambodia," a position in which he retains many of his former prerogatives as constitutional king.
The son of King [[Norodom Suramarit]] and Queen Sisowath Kossamak, Sihanouk has held so many positions since 1941 that the ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]'' identifies him as the [[politician]] who has occupied the world's greatest variety of political offices. These included two terms as king, two as sovereign prince, one as president, two as [[Prime Minister of Cambodia|prime minister]], and one as Cambodia's non-titled [[head of state]], as well as numerous positions as leader of various [[government-in-exile|governments-in-exile]].
Most of these positions were only honorific, including the last position as constitutional king of Cambodia. Norodom Sihanouk's actual period of effective rule over Cambodia was from [[November 9]], [[1953]] (full independence granted to Cambodia) to [[March 18]], [[1970]] ([[Lon Nol]] and the National Assembly depose Sihanouk).
He is also well credited as a [[film director]] directing films such as ''[[An Ambition Reduced to Ashes]]'' and ''[[The Last Days of Colonel Savath]]'' (1995) .
==Names and titles==
Since his abdication, Sihanouk's official Cambodian title (short version, the most-widely used) is:<br>'''Preah Karuna Preah Bat Sâmdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk Preahmâhaviraksat'''
In [[Khmer language|Khmer]]:<br>[[Image:Sihanouk5.png|180px]][[Image:Sihanouk3.png|140px]][[Image:Sihanouk6.png|105px]]
The literal translation of the title :
*''Preah'' ("sacred," cognate of the Indian word ब्राह्मण, "[[brahmin]]")
*''Karuna'' ("compassionate," referring to the Buddhist concept [[karuna]])
*''Preah'' ("sacred")
*''Bat'' ("foot", from [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]] ''{{IPA|pāda}}'', cognate of [[Latin language|Latin]] ''pes'', ''pedis'', [[French language|French]] ''pied'')
*''Sâmdech'' ("lord, prince, excellency")
*''Preah'' ("sacred")
*''Norodom'' (given name of [[Norodom of Cambodia]], used as a family name by his descendants. from Narottam in [[Sanskrit]] meaning best in quality (Uttam) among men(Nar).
*''Sihanouk'' (given name of Sihanouk; it is a contraction of ''siha-'', "lion," from Sanskrit ''{{IPA|siṃha}}'', cognate of ''singa-'' in [[Singapore]]; and ''-hanouk'', from Sanskrit ''hanu'', "jaws")
*''Preahmâhaviraksat'' (''preah'', "sacred"; ''-mâha-'', Sanskrit "great," cognate with ''maha-'' in [[maharaja]]; ''-vira-'', Sanskrit ''{{IPA|vīra}}'' "brave or eminent man; hero; chief," cognate of Latin ''vir'', ''viris'', English ''virile''; ''-ksat'', "warrior, ruler," cognate of the Indian word [[Kshatriya]]).
The word "father" does not appear in the Cambodian title, but in western languages his title is translated as "his Majesty King-Father Norodom Sihanouk," to distinguish from the title of his son the new king, which is "his Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni."
Despite the great ritualism surrounding the Cambodian monarchy, Sihanouk has always favored informal relations with the Cambodian people, and when addressing him, or talking about him, they most often call him [[Image:Sihanouk9.png|55px]], ''Sâmdech Euv'', which literally means "Prince Dad," "My Lord Dad" (French: ''Monseigneur Papa'').
==Early life==
Norodom Sihanouk received his [[primary education]] in a [[Phnom Penh]] primary school, the [[École François Baudoin]]. He pursued his [[secondary education]] in [[Saigon]] (now [[Ho Chi Minh City]]), [[Vietnam]] at "Lycée Chasseloup Laubat" until his coronation and then later attended Cavalry military school in [[Saumur]], [[France]]. When his maternal grandfather, [[Sisowath Monivong|King Sisowath Monivong]], died on April 23, 1941, the Crown Council selected Prince Sihanouk as king of Cambodia.
His coronation took place on September 1941. Rumors abounded during this period that the influence of France (the regional colonial power) accounted for his accession. Norodom Sihanouk is well-known for leading what some have termed an extravagant lifestyle, and being an unabashed "[[wikt:lady's man|ladies' man]]." He married his sixth wife, Monique Izzi, a young woman of French, Italian, and Cambodian ancestry, in 1952.
==Leadership turmoil==
After [[World War II]] and into the early 1950s, King Sihanouk's politics became more nationalistic and he began demanding that the French grant the country [[independence]] and depart, echoing the sentiments of the other nations of [[Indochina]], [[Vietnam]] and [[Laos]]. He went into exile in Thailand in May of 1953 and refused to return until independence was granted. He returned when his overtures met with success and Cambodia became independent on [[November 9]], [[1953]]. On [[March 2]], [[1955]], King Sihanouk abdicated in favor of his father, taking the post of [[Prime Minister of Cambodia|prime minister]] a few months later. Following his father's death in 1960, he gained election as head of state, but received the title of prince rather than king. In 1963, he forced a change in the constitution that made him head of state for life. While he had officially abdicated as king, he had created a constitutional office for himself that was exactly equal to that of the former kingship.
While the [[Vietnam War]] raged, Sihanouk promoted policies he claimed would preserve Cambodia's neutrality. Alternately taking sides with the [[People's Republic of China]], supporting the [[United States]] and espousing [[Third Way]] policies. In the spring of 1965, he made a deal with China and North Vietnam to allow the presence of permanent North Vietnamese bases in eastern Cambodia and to allow military supplies from China to reach Vietnam by Cambodian ports. Cambodia and Cambodian individuals were compensated by Chinese purchases of the Cambodian rice crop by China at inflated prices. He also at this time made any number of speeches calling the triumph of Communism in Southeast Asia inevitable and suggesting Maoist ideas were worthy of emulation. In 1966 and 1967, Sihanouk unleashed a wave of political repression that drove many on the left out of mainstream politics. His policy of friendship with China collapsed due to the extreme attitudes in China at the peak of the [[Cultural Revolution]]. The combination of political repression and problems with China made his balancing act impossible to sustain. He had alienated the left, allowed the North Vietnamese to establish bases within Cambodia and staked everything on China's good will. On March 18, 1970, while he was travelling out of the country, [[Lon Nol]], the prime minister, convened the National Assembly which voted to depose Sihanouk as head of state and give emergency powers to Lon Nol. Prince [[Sisowath Sirik Matak]], a royal prince who, in 1941, had been passed over by the French government in favor of his cousin Norodom Sihanouk's leadership role, retained his post as Deputy Prime Minister. Prince Sihanouk fled to [[Beijing]] and began to support the Khmer Rouge in their struggle to overthrow the Lon Nol government in [[Phnom Penh]]. After Sihanouk showed his support for the Khmer Rouge by visiting them in the field, their ranks swelled from 6000 to 50,000 fighters. Many of these new recruits for the Khmer Rouge were apolitical peasants who fought in support of the king, not for communism, of which they had little understanding. When the [[Khmer Republic]] fell to the [[Khmer Rouge]] in April 1975, Prince Sihanouk became the symbolic head of state of the new régime while [[Pol Pot]] remained in power. The next year, on April 4, 1976, the Khmer Rouge forced Sihanouk out of office again and into political retirement. During the Vietnamese invasion, he was sent to New York to speak against Vietnam before the United Nations. After his speech, he sought refuge in China and in [[North Korea]].<!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:Perfectsoul200408012206030.jpg|thumb|right|Former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk and wife with North Korean leader [[Kim Jong Il]].]] -->
The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in December 1978 ousted the Khmer Rouge. Although claiming to be wary of the Khmer Rouge, Prince Sihanouk was more than willing to again join forces with them in order to provide a united front against the Vietnamese. In 1982, he became president of the [[Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea]] (CGDK), which consisted of his own [[Funcinpec]] party, [[Son Sann|Son Sann's]] KPNLF, and the Khmer Rouge. The Vietnamese withdrew in 1989, leaving behind a pro-Vietnamese government under ex-Khmer Rouge cadre [[Hun Sen]] to run the [[People's Republic of Kampuchea]] (PRK).
==Restoration==
Peace negotiations between the CGDK and the PRK commenced shortly thereafter and continued until 1991 when all sides agreed to a comprehensive settlement which they signed in Paris. Prince Sihanouk returned once more to Cambodia on [[November 14]], [[1991]] after thirteen years in exile.
In 1993, Sihanouk once again became king of Cambodia. During the restoration, however, he suffered from ill health and traveled repeatedly to Beijing for medical treatment.
Sihanouk's leisure interests include music (he has composed songs in Khmer, French, and English) and film. He has become a prodigious [[filmmaker]] over the years, directing many movies and orchestrating musical compositions. He became one of the first heads of state in the region to have a personal website, which has proven a cult hit. It draws more than a thousand visitors a day, which constitutes a substantial portion of his nation's Internet users. Royal statements are posted there daily.
King Sihanouk went into self-imposed [[exile]] in January 2004, taking up residence in [[Pyongyang]], [[North Korea]] and later in [[Beijing]], [[China]]. Citing reasons of ill health, he announced his [[abdication]] of the throne on [[October 7]], [[2004]]. The constitution of Cambodia made no provision for such a move. [[Chea Sim]], the [[President of the Senate]] assumed the title of [[acting]] Head of State (a title he has held many times before), until the throne council met on [[October 14]] and appointed [[Norodom Sihamoni]], one of Sihanouk's sons, as the new king.
==Family==
In his lifetime, King Norodom Sihanouk reportedly has had several wives and concubines, producing at least fourteen children in a period of eleven years. According to Time magazine (30 June 1956), however, his only legal wives have been Princess Samdech Norleak (married 1955) and Paule Monique Izzi (married 1955), who is a granddaughter of HRH Prince Norodom Duongchak of Cambodia and the younger daughter of Pomme Peang and her second husband, Jean-François Izzi, a banker. A profile of Sihanouk in The New York Times (4 June 1993, page A8) stated that the king met Monique Izzi in 1951, when he awarded her a prize in a beauty pageant.
According to Royal Ark's genealogy of the Cambodian royal family, however, Sihanouk has been married seven times, his consorts being:[http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Cambodia/camboa20.htm]
(1) '''Neak Moneang Phat Kanhol''' (1920-1969, a member of the Royal Cambodian Ballet; married 1942, later divorced)
* HRH Samdech Preah Ream Bupha Devi (1943-)
* HRH Samdech Preah Krom [[Norodom Ranariddh]] (1944-)
(2) '''HRH Princess Sisowath Pongsanmoni''' (1929-1974; married 1942, divorced 1951)
* HRH Samdech Borom Reamea Norodom Yuvaneath (1943-)
* HRH Samdech Norodom Racvivong Sihanouk (1944-1973)
* Samdech Preah Mohesarra Norodom Chakrapong (1945-)
* HRH Samdech Princess Norodom Sorya Roeungsay (1947-1976)
* HRH Princess Norodom Kantha Bopha (1948-1952)
* HRH Samdech Norodom Khemanourak Sihanouk (1949-1975)
* HRH Samdech Princess Norodom Botum Bopha (1951-1976)
(3) '''Anak Munang Thach''' (married 1943)
(4) '''HRH Princess Sisowath Monikessan''' (née HRH Princess Sisowath Naralaksha Munikesara, 1929-1946; married 1944)
* HRH Samdech Norodom Naradipo (1946-1976)
(5) '''HRH Princess Samdech Preah Reach Kanitha Norodom Norleak''' (née Princess Devisa Naralakshmi, born 1927; married 1946 and "more formally" on 4 March 1955)
(6) '''[[Mam Manivan Phanivong]]''' (née Mam Munivarni Barni Varman, 1934-1975; married 1949)
* HRH Princess Norodom Socheatha Sujata (1953-1975)
* HRH Samdech Preah Anoch Norodom Arunrasmy (1955-)
(7) '''HM Queen [[Norodom Monineath Sihanouk]]''' (née Paule Monique Izzi, born 18 June 1936; married 12 April 1952 and "more formally" on 5 March 1955)
* HM King [[Norodom Sihamoni]] (1953-)
* HRH Samdech Norodom Narindrapong (1954-2003)
==Books==
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*Norodom Sihanouk ''My war with the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'' (1973, ISBN 0-7139-0449-6, ISBN 0-394-48543-2)
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==Further reading==
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* [http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/28181841?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fcatdir%2Fenhancements%2Ffy0714%2F93001916-b.html&title=&linktype=digitalObject&detail= Cixous, Hélène]. ''[http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/28181841?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fcatdir%2Fenhancements%2Ffy0714%2F93001916-d.html&title=&linktype=digitalObject&detail= The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia]''. European women writers series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. ISBN 0803214553
* Kuckreja, Madhavi. ''Prince Norodom Sihanouk''. World leaders past & present. New York: Chelsea House, 1990. ISBN 1555468519
* Osborne, Milton E. ''Sihanouk Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness''. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. ISBN 9780824816391
* Widyono, Benny. ''[http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/131066925?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fcatdir%2Ftoc%2Fecip0718%2F2007020165.html&title=&linktype=digitalObject&detail= Dancing in Shadows Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia]''. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Pub, 2007. ISBN 9780742555525
*[[Denise Affonço]]: ''To The End Of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.'' (With Introductions by [[Jon Swain]] and [[David P. Chandler|David Chandler]]. ISBN 978-0955572951
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==See also==
*[[Cambodia under Sihanouk (1954-1970)]]
*[[History of Cambodia (1979-present)]]
== External links ==
* [http://norodomsihanouk.info/ Official site]
* [http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Cambodia/cambodia.htm Genealogy of the Cambodian Royal Family]
* [http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/sihanouk.htm Review of his memoirs]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3505915.stm News release regarding support of gay marriage]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3387967.stm News release regarding his website]
* [http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/Ledgerwood/biographies.htm Cambodian politicians biography]
* [http://international-parliament.net/seite12.htm/ Official Contact with the IPSP]
* [http://www.diacritica.com/sobaka/dossier/sihanouk.html Sobaka]
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=232050&mod=films New York Times]
* {{imdb name|id=0797625|name=Norodom Sihanouk}}
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