Phnom Penh Post - Royal clarification
Recently, a western press agency wrote that I had called Mr. Ieng Sary "excrement"
- sic! - before calling him "Excellency."
I have never called who it concerns "excrement." But recently I cited (in
English: I quoted) Democratic Kampuchea Radio (Khmer Rogue Pol Potists) who included
Mr. Ieng Sary by calling him "excrement."
- Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, 31 August, 1996.
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