Norodom Sihanouk, the former Cambodian king died in China. The King who was crowned in 1941 ceded the throne to his son in 2004. In his long, colourful and complex rule as king and politician, he was praised for his role in obtaining independence from France and remembered mostly as someone concerned with the plight of the poor and powerless. But he was criticised for providing legitimate to the Khmer Rouge and assisting their rise to power. Some 1.7 million people are estimated to have died under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s.
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