Nowadays, the political situation in Cambodia is not smooth. The last general election was held on 28 July 2013, almost a year ago, and still the Cambodian People’s Party, the majority seat holders, and the Cambodian National Rescue Party, have failed to reach any agreement.
Tea Shop of King Sihanouk depicts a garden located in the middle of an intersection between four roads that divide four villages. It shows that the memory of King Sihanouk began to gather all villagers to have tea. He was a special, hospitable person. He was flexible, smiled and was good at satisfying others, even though he had been brushed aside before.
Please look at his tea shop, evenly decorated and well arranged. He is a symbol of art. The four villages include a banana village, a coconut village, a palm village and a rice village. The banana village symbolises the Khmer Rouge, which hid inside banana farms. The coconut village is the leader of the people during the republic that controlled many sides of the country. The palm village and the rice village represent the people who evacuated their homeland to live in camps and other foreign countries. Because King Sihanouk was talented, his popular tea shops brought everyone together and filled them with the desire to live together in peace, but it was a complicated road full of thorns, a bumpy road under construction that needed to be fixed.
A historical victory announced by the United Nations in 1991 stated that the four Khmer warring factions, the Khmer Rouge (NADK), PRK (People’s Republic of Kampuchea), FUNCINPEC (Front Uni National pour un Cambodge Indépendant, Neutre, Pacifique et Coopératif) and KNPLF (Khmer People’s National Liberation Front), had agreed that Cambodia was to choose a new leader by elections. Very big portraits of King Sihanouk were displayed very on important roads in Phnom Penh. This brought hope and high expectations to everybody. Culture, tradition and smiles returned for a quite a long time. About 3 million people died during the war, but afterwards, the population doubled to 6 million. The justice for those who died is not to continue to kill the next generation. So please, Cambodia, you got peace, now live forever. That means the dead people will also rest in peace. Please, government, think about the country’s humanity.
