CPP ‘main hero’ Say Pouthang dies aged 96

The fifth-highest ranked member of the Cambodian People’s Party’s politburo, Say Phouthang, an influential member of the country’s government in the 1980s, died yesterday while receiving treatment in Bangkok.

Prime Minister Hun Sen confirmed the 96-year-old’s death in a Facebook post calling Phouthang one of the CPP’s “main heroes who sacrificed everything to liberate the country from the Khmer Rouge regime”.

According to historian Margaret Slocomb’s The People’s Republic of Kampuchea – which details the regime which ran Cambodia in the 1980s – Phouthang fought French colonial forces as a Khmer Issarak commander before receiving training in Vietnam.

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