Keo Meas
Keo Meas | |
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កែវ មាស | |
Born | 1926 |
Died | 1976 | (aged 49–50)
Occupation | Politician |
Keo Meas (Khmer: កែវ មាស, 1926–1976)[1] was a Cambodian communist politician. Keo Meas, then a fourth-year student at the Phnom Penh Teachers Training College, was recruited to the Indochinese Communist Party by Son Sichan in 1946.[2] In 1950, he became a leading figure within the United Issarak Front.[3] At the same time he was a leading figure in the Phnom Penh city unit of the ICP.[4]
Keo Meas was involved in the reorganization of the city party unit, after it had been broken up by arrests in July 1952.[5] In December the same year, he represented the UIF at the People's Peace Conference in Vienna.[6]
When the Cambodian parts of the ICP were converted to the Khmer People's Revolutionary Party in 1954, Keo Meas became the leader of the Phnom Penh unit of the new party.[7] After the cessation of hostilities in the same year, Keo Meas was one of the representatives of the UIF in the Viet Minh side of the Joint Commission for the Implementation of the Geneva Accords.[8]
As the KPRP was an underground party, Keo Meas, Non Suon and Penn Yuth were assigned to form a legal front of the party. In late 1954 they attempted to register the 'Khmer Resistance Party', but their registration was rejected. In early 1955, they were able to register themselves as Krom Pracheachon ('People's Group').[9]
In May 1956, Keo Meas, along with Non Suon and Nop Bophann, restarted Pracheachon as a weekly newspaper.[10]
As the KPRP went through a period of crisis,
At the time of the
In 1960, as the KPRP held its second congress, Keo Meas was included into the party
Keo Meas travelled to
Keo Meas became the ambassador of the
Keo Meas returned to Cambodia in May 1975 to begin working at the office of the party Central Committee. He was however put in house arrest, suspected of being pro-Vietnamese. On 20 September 1976, he was arrested and was taken to
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