Tra Vinh Province - Districts of Tra Vinh Province, People from Tra Vinh Province, Son Sen, Ieng Sary, Cng Long District, Tr Vinh (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Districts of Tra Vinh Province, People From Tra Vinh Province, Son Sen, Ieng Sary, Cng Long District, Tr Vinh, Tiu Cn District, Ch u Thnh District, Tr Vinh, Cu K District, Tr C District, Cu Ngang District, Duyn Hi District, Tr Vinh Province. Excerpt: Son Sen (June 12, 1930 June 10, 1997) was a Cambodian Communist politician and soldier. A member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea/Party of Democratic Kampuchea, the Khmer Rouge, from 1974 to 1992, Sen oversaw the Party's security apparatus, including the Santebal secret police and the notorious security prison S-21 at Tuol Sleng. Sen was married to Yun Yat (), who became the Party's minister of education and information. Along with the rest of his family, he was killed on the orders of Pol Pot during a 1997 factional split in the Khmer Rouge. Son Sen was born in Travinh, southern Vietnam, among the Khmer Krom. His family were minor landowners, and according to some sources were originally of Sino-Vietnamese ancestry. From 1946 he attended a teacher training college in Phnom Penh, and in the 1950s received a scholarship to study in Paris, where he became a member of a Marxist group of Cambodian students centred on Saloth Sar (Pol Pot), Ieng Sary, and Hou Yuon. Along with other members of the group, Sen was influenced by the radical line pursued by the French Communist Party. Sen's academic record was relatively mediocre, and in May 1956 the authorities withdrew his scholarship due to his continued participation in political activity. Returning to Cambodia with a teaching certificate, he taught for a time at the Lycee Sisowath, and went on to become director of studies of the National Teaching Institute, part of the University of Phnom Penh. By 1960 he had... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=868969