Y00239

Headline:

headline: Y00239: Phouk Chhay; Nang; Phouk Chay; Touc

Record ID:
Y00239
Name:

Phouk Chhay (source: BKI 152, p. 512)

Other Names:

Nang (source: BKI 138 B (ii), p. 1533)

Other Names:

Phouk Chay (source: BK, HPP, p.176)

Other Names:

Touc (source: BK)

Pre-1979 Activities:

attended and opened first Cambodian People's Representative Assembly meeting, 19760411 (source: PPR, p. 326)

Pre-1979 Activities:

led movement to form a national students union in 1964 (source: BK, HPP, p. 207)

Pre-1979 Activities:

did not have problems with the Vietnamese (source: BKI 152, p. 513)

Pre-1979 Activities:

conducted political training of Khmer Rouge cadres at Kantuot, Thpong District, Kampong Speu Province, 1973???? (source: BKI 152, p. 503)

Pre-1979 Activities:

jailed during the Sihanouk period (source: BKI 152, p. 505)

Pre-1979 Activities:

"Phouk Chhay was in touch with Vietnamese" (source: BKI 138 B (ii), p. 1533)

Pre-1979 Activities:

taught the Party line, "Talked of struggle to liberate the nation and territory, drive U.S. out of country, the country-selling Lon Nol clique. No conflict with the Vietnamese then; Phouk Chhay was in touch with the Vietnamese. It was mid-'72" (source: BKI 138 B (ii), p. 1533)

Pre-1979 Activities:

released by Lon Nol in early April, 1970 (source: PPP, p. 337)

Pre-1979 Activities:

published article in the semi-official government newspaper Pa Depeche claiming that peasants were abandoning land in increasing numbers, due to diminishing size of parcels, landlord exploitation, and soil exhaustion (source: BK, HPP, p. 216)

Pre-1979 Activities:

on July 17th, 1965, led a delegation of ten members of Royal Khmer Socialist Youth on a visit to China (source: BK, HPP, p. 219)

Pre-1979 Activities:

"On May Day, 1967, student demonstrations organized by Phouk Chhay to protest against the presumed execution of Yuon and Samphan involved fifteen thousand people from Phnom Penh, Kandal, and Kompong Cham" (source: BK, HPP, p. 255)

Pre-1979 Activities:

led the Khmer-Chinese Friendship Association during late 1960s with Hu Nim and So Nem (source: BK, HPP, p. 261)

Pre-1979 Activities:

in his 1973 report, Ith Sarin named the Southwest Zone's "most important personalities as Chou Chet, Phouk Chhay, Sieng Po Se, Thuch Rin and Mok" (source: BK, HPP, p. 340)

Allegedly Persecuted by:

4.0, arrested and sent to Tuol Sleng, 197703?? (source: PPP, p. 335)

Allegedly Persecuted by:

the center, 4.0, arrested and sent to Tuol Sleng, 19770314 (source: BK, PPR, p.350)

Allegedly Persecuted by:

1.56, killed, Tuol Sleng, 19770706 (source: PPR, p. 352.)

Associates:

Hu Nim (source: PPP, pp. 245-246)

Associates:

Van Tip Sovan (source: PPP, p. 245-246)

Associates:

Mey Sakhan (source: PPP, p. 245-246)

Associates:

Toun Sok Phalla (source: PPP, pp. 245-246)

Associates:

Pok Doeuskomar (source: PPP, p. 245-246)

Associates:

Koy Thuon (source: PPR, p. 320)

Date of Death:

19770706 (source: BK, PPR, p. 352)

Place of Death:

Location from smallest to larger: Tuol Sleng (source: PPP, p. 335; BK, PPR, p. 352)

DK Zone, 1975-1979:

Zone Name or Compass Point: SW, Date: 1977???? (source: BKI 152, p. 1031)

DK Zone, 1975-1979:

Zone Name or Compass Point: SW (source: BKI 138 B (ii), p. 1535)

Non- or Pre-DK Education:

Phnom Penh University, wrote thesis: 'Le Pouvoir Politique au Cambodge, 1945-1965' (source: PPP, p. 335)

Non- or Pre-DK Education:

Law School (source: PPP, p. 246; BK, HPP, p. 199)

Non- or Pre-DK Education:

a student at the Teachers' Training College (Sala Keruvichea) (source: BK, HPP, p. 199)

Title:

small, short (source: BKI 138 B (ii), p. 1533)

Political Party/Organisation:

Leader/President, General Association of Khmer Students (source: PPP, pp. 268, 335)

Political Party/Organisation:

Khmer-Chinese Friendship Association member, 1967 (source: PPP, pp. 245-246)

Prison History:

Tuol Sleng, 19770314 (source: PPP, p. 335 ; PPR, p. 320)

Prison History:

197704?? (source: PPR, p. 320)

Rank or Position 1975-1979:

"in the kana kamaphibal (cadre committee) of Mok" (source: BKI 152, p. 512)

Rank or Position 1975-1979:

protean damban (region/province chief), Kampong Speu Province, 1977????, "Phouk Chhay was protean damban Kompong Speu" (source: BKI 152, p. 1031)

Rank or Position 1975-1979:

in charge of troops' political education (source: BKI 138 B (ii), p. 1533)

Rank or Position 1975-1979:

foreign contact at Pochentong, "After liberation Phouk Chhay went to work at Pochentong, where he took charge of foreign contact." (source: BKI 138 B (ii), p. 1536)

Rank or Position 1975-1979:

in the Organization's Office, PPP, p. 281, while Khuon (Koy Thuon) was DK Minister of Trade

Rank or Position 1975-1979:

member, Purchasing Committee (source: BK, PPR, p. 319)

Sources:

Ben Kiernan Interviews (no. + transcript translation page no.) (BKI) 152, pp. 512-513

Sources:

Ben Kiernan Interviews (no. + transcript translation page no.) (BKI), pp. 503, 505

Sources:

Ben Kiernan Interviews (no. + transcript translation page no.) (BKI) 57 B, p. 1031

Sources:

Ben Kiernan Interviews (no. + transcript translation page no.) (BKI) 138 B (ii), pp. 1533, 1535

Sources:

Pol Pot plans the future : confidential leadership documents from Democratic Kampuchea, 1976-1977 / translated and edited by David P. Chandler, Ben Kiernan and Chanthou Boua. New Haven : Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 1988. (PPP), pp. 245-247, 268, 281, 335, 337, 343

Sources:

The Pol Pot Regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 / Ben Kiernan. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1996. (BK, PPR), pp. 319, n33, 320, 326, 350, 352

Sources:

How Pol Pot Came to power: a history of Communism in Kampuchea, 1930-1975 / Ben Kiernan. London, Verso, 1985. (BK, HPP), pp. 176, 199, 207, 216, 219, 255, 261, 313, 340