Cambodia's king airs his grievances on the Internet

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In a series of French-language `open letters' posted on the Internet, the king said his country had become a `beggar state' and a `jungle'

AP , PHNOM PENH
Friday, Nov 07, 2003,Page 5

Cambodia's 50th independence day finds its king in low spirits, given to calling his country a "beggar state" and a "jungle ... populated more and more by wild beasts."

Trampled by foreigners for centuries, dragged into the Vietnam War and turned into a vast killing field by the genocidal Khmer Rouge, the Southeast Asian nation is still wracked by poverty, corruption and lawlessness as it marks Sunday's anniversary of the end of French rule.

From his mustard-colored palace in Phnom Penh, the capital, 81-year-old King Norodom Sihanouk has been sending out a stream of online "open letters," deploring what has become of Cambodia.

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