Effusion of the suffering, as the "King Father" is cremated

The king funeral pyre  was lit by the son of Sinhanouk, King Norodom Sihamoni, and his widow, Norodom Monineath, in a Buddhist ceremony close to  the ground of Royal Palace yesterday.

In the same time, King Sihamoni granted the amnesty to 400 prisoners in the memory of his father, and a sea of the people in mourning remained support around the pyre after the official ceremony was concluded, of the incense burning or to draw and take the picture and the video of the event.

During two days following, the king and the queen mother will place on a royal barge to disperse some of ashes of Sihanouk in river.The rest will be placed in a diamond ballot box, that the mother and the son will ravel by the site of incineration before storage at Royal Palace.

King father cremation ( update)

President Barack Obama, one of the only leaders was attending a regional summit in Cambodia in November not to pay his respect before King Father Sihanouk's body. No reason is revealed of his absence.

Representing the United States is Ambassador William E. Todd. The U.S. Embassy did not directly respond to explain such a relatively low-level representation given the long U.S. involvement in Cambodia.

The funeral is being attended by French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, Prince Akishino of Japan, leaders of neighboring countries and China's Jia Qinglin, a senior government adviser and former high-ranking Politburo member.

Hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in Cambodia's capital Monday awaiting the cremation of former King Norodom Sihanouk, the revered "King-Father," who survived wars and the murderous Khmer Rouge regime to hold center stage in the southeast Asian nation for more than half a century.