Son Ngoc Minh
Son Ngoc Minh | |
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| Sơn Ngọc Minh សឺង ង៉ុកមិញ | |
Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (1951–1960) |
Son Ngoc Minh (
Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP), the predecessor to the Communist Party of Kampuchea
.
Biography
Son was born in 1920 in
nom de guerre was intended to capitalise on the popularity of Sihanouk's banished rival, Son Ngoc Thanh
, then still languishing in exile in France.
Son was the leader of the first nationwide congress of the leftist
First Indochina war, he and many Khmer Issarak officials left Cambodia for North Vietnam
.
Son remained a senior figure in the Party, albeit largely operating from Hanoi in North Vietnam until 1972, when at the request of Ieng Sary, he was sent to hospital in Beijing to be treated for high blood pressure. He died in Beijing on 22 December.[5] His death further lessened the influence of the Hanoi-trained communists on the Khmer Rouge, correspondingly increasing the power of the hardline Party 'Centre' led by Pol Pot.
References
- ^ Tyner (2008), p. 34
- ^ Dommen (2001), p. 181
- ISBN 0-7007-0622-4, p. 339
- ^ Kiernan, B. How Pol Pot came to power, Yale UP, 2004, p. 80
- ^ Kiernan, p. 360
Bibliography
- Dommen, Arthur J.; The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, ISBN 0-253-33854-9
- Tyner, James A.; The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008
ISBN 0754670961
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