Khieu Ponnary

Khieu Ponnary, (លោក​ខៀវ ប់​នណារី) the wife of Po Pot, may have been one of the most astute Marxist women in the Marxist Leninist nation world. She was his mentor when he was in Paris and had joined the Marxist circle that would later become the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. She was considered one of the more intellectual members of the inter circle. She as born 1920 in Phnom Penh, died July 1, 2003 in Pailin.
She became the spouse of Pol Pot in 1956. Khieu Ponnary was the first female Cambodian to graduate from high school, and the first Khmer woman to earn a bachelor's degree from Phnom Penh's elite Lycee Sisowath. She was the first Khmer woman to receive a bachelor's degree in Paris, France.
She probably wrote a lot of articles for the Party’s paper, but she never signed them. She was head of the national women's association of Democratic Kampuchea.
She had mental problems that began right before the CPK took control of the country and she went to a hospital, in Beijing, with mental illness. Her husband left her in the 1980s for a younger wife, Meas.
Whether she would have had a good impact or a bad one is still unknown. Since she wasted away in a mental hospital until after the demise of the Democratic Kampuchea rebel movement. She lived with relatives until she died. We may never know if she could have improved the way things were going. Few today held her responsible for Democratic Kampuchea’s crimes because she can’t even remember that period of time.