1.   The coup shattered their tense co-premiership.

2.   The coup shattered chances for a peace deal that Nhek Bunchhay had been negotiating with the most hard-line faction.

3.   The coup shattered the government and caused devastating fighting and looting in Phnom Penh.

4.   The July coup shattered the delicate arrangement.

5.   Though Hun Sen is expected to retain all real power, having a royalist as his co-premier would preserve a surface semblance of the coalition his coup shattered.