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ប៉ុលពត កម្ពុជា ប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ

Sunday, June 17, 2007

From the Pol Pot Journals

Chapter 14
The Creation of កម្ពុជា ប្រជាផិបតេយ្យ (Democratic Kampuchea)


Update magazine, April 28, 1975

KHIEU SAMPHAN: OUT OF THE JUNGLE
Cambodia’s conquerors are as
shrouded in mystery as the jungles in
- which they operated for so long. Western
experts have not even been able to de-
termine whether the movement is basi-
cally Cambodian nationalist, Cambodi-
an Marxist or doctrinaire Communist.
What is already clear, however, is that
Khieu Samphan, 43, will probably wield
the most power in the new regime. Dur
- ing the war he was Deputy Premier to Prince Norodom Sihanouk as well as
Minister of Defense and commander in
chief of the Khmer Rouge fighting forc- es. TIME’s Stephen Heder interviewed
Samphan ‘s younger brother Khieu Seng
Kim in Phnom-Penh early this month and cabled this profile of the new Cambodian leader:



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