第203页 From Independence to Civil War

The most prominent of the plotters was Sihanouk’s cousin, Sisowath Sirik Matak, a career civil servant who had become deputy prime minister under Lon Nol. Matak had grown impatient with Sihanouk’s mismanagement of the economy, and he was dismayed by the presence of Vietnamese bases on Cambodian soil and by his cousin’s impulsive, contradictory foreign policy. Pro-Western himself, and with links to Phnom Penh’s commercial elite, Matak was tired of playing a supporting role in Sihanouk’s never-ending opera.