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Article: Second Prime Minister Apologizes to King Sihanouk
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 16, 1996
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Cambodian Second Prime Minister Hun Sen today made a public
apology for reportedly violating the dignity of King Norodom
Sihanouk.
"I seemed to be violating His Majesty the King's dignity and his
credit in my proposal for granting amnesty to Ieng Sary," Hun Sen
told a peace rally in the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh of the
Cambodian Students and Youth Federation.
Ieng Sary, a former Khmer Rouge leader, was granted amnesty about
a month after he broke away from his former ranks in August this
year.
Hun Sen said that after learning Ieng Sary was waiting for a
document from the Royal Government to hold a press conference, he
drafted a decree on granting amnesty to Ieng Sary and submitted it
for ...