Among those murdered was Ho Sok, a top Funcinpec official at the Interior Ministry.
These days it is Chang In-Sok and his neighbours who are queuing up for handouts.
"ASEAN investors are encouraged, " argues Sok Chenda Sophea, secretary general of the Council for the Development of Cambodia.
When the World Bank presented the evidence to the powerful deputy prime minister, Sok An, he angrily refused to read the report.
Cambodia does not, and Mr Hun Sen and Mr Sok An have still not come up with a coherent plan for managing the oil revenues.
"Before I thought we were one people, " Chang In-sok told me.
On the second day, VIPs included Sok An, chief of the Council of Ministers, and Minister of Culture Princess Bopha Devi, daughter of King Norodom Sihanouk.
Kang Sok Ju, the regime's First Vice Foreign Minister and the man who negotiated the 1994 Agreed Framework nuclear deal with the Clinton administration, was named Vice Premier.
Last August Sok An appointed two officials to hear the complaints and in December he met officials of the UN Office of Legal Affairs to draw up an anti-corruption plan.
Ho Sok, who was executed extrajudicially on police premises.
It will be opened by UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, the Chair of the World Heritage Committee and Vice Prime Minister of Cambodia Sok An, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Sen Genshitsu, and other Japanese dignitaries.
Sok Phal, chief of the Interior Ministry's information department, denied reports that a state of emergency had been declared to stop looting but he acknowledged that military and police units were ordered to cease their pillage.
Hun Sen said he regretted the shooting death of Ho Sok, a prominent Ranariddh supporter, and said he has ordered an investigation into the killing, which one reliable source said was carried out by executioners loyal to Hun Sen.
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