Hun Sen Declines Ornate Stupa, Wants to Stay at Home After Death

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Prime Minister Hun Sen’s wife Bun Rany chose a spot near the Bassac river surrounded by large trees to house her husband after he dies. Wat Monisovann, in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district, also contains stupas of the late tycoon Suy Sophan and a row of tombs labeled “excellency” or “golden four-star general.”

 

But the stupa that has been built for Hun Sen towers over the rest: On a plot around 35 by 25 meters, the stupa’s golden structure is ornate and imposing. Hun Sen disclosed in a speech over the weekend that his wife had built the tomb for him in secret, and he found out about it upon the death of his older brother Hun Neng in May.

 

But he will opt out, and wants to be laid to rest at his home, he said while describing imagined fights he might have as a ghost. “According to beliefs, I absolutely wouldn’t dare. When our power and soul arrive there, they will be stepped on by the neck [by other souls] there. When your baramey is not so powerful, you should not play with them. … I do not play with them,” Hun Sen said in the speech in Siem Reap, using a word for a sacred power.

 

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