Y00489

headline: Y00489: So Phim; Sao Phim; Sor Yan; So Vanna

Y03078

So Phim (source: BK, PPR, p. 14)

Sao Phim (source: BK, PPR, p. 476)

Sor Yan (source: BK, PPR, p. 476)

So Vanna (source: BK, HPP, p. 429)

most of the executions of Hanoi-trained cadres ocurred unknown even to Politburo members such as So Phim (source: BK, HPP, p. 392)

So Phim and many of his cadres spent much of the late 1960s in NLF territory. There, he conducted study sessions, lecturing on politics, military strategy and tactics (source: BK, HPP, p. 279)

had worked closely with the Vietnamese communists since the 1946-1954 war against the French. By 1970, his Eastern-branch insurgents were described by U.S. Intelligence as being "in close liason with the Viet Cong." Considered the most ideologically committed (source: BK, PPR, p. 14-15)

repression of Cham rebellion, late 1975; So Phim's Zone-level troops were responsible for the violence (source: BK, PPR, p. 265, citing Hem Samin interview, 28 September 1980.)

from May to August 1976, Phim stayed in China for medical treatment (source: BK, PPR, p. 324)

at the first meeting of the Cambodian People's Representative Assembly on 10 April 1976, Mok was promoted to vice-president over So Phim, who had been chosen to become vice-president a month before (source: BK, PPR, p. 326)

Phim may have been present at the meeting of the CPK Standing Committee on 11 April 1977; those listed as present include "Phin", but it is unclear whether this in fact meant So Phim. This is the only such meeting "for which there is evidence of So Phim's possible attendance" (source: BK, PPR, p. 351-352)

as early as the Sihanouk period, U.S. intelligence took note of conflicts between Eastern Zone forces and other Khmer Rouge troops (source: BK, PPR, p. 313)

So Phim and Chou Chet may have attended a Center meeting held during 21-22 August 1976 (source: BK, PPR, p. 329)

a cadre "who knew [So] Phim well says he saw Pol Pot visit Phim at his headquarters there twice during 1977, at least once with Ieng Sary" (source: BK, PPR, p. 354)

Chen Yonggui, accompanied by Pol Pot and Vorn Vet, toured the Eastern Zone on 4 December 1977, and were hosted by So Phim; in broadcasting the event, Phnom Penh Radio omitted to describe Phim as even a member of the party Central Committee. "His party status had been dropped... He was replaced on the Standing Committee by Son Sen, with Vorn Vet moving up to Phim's No. 4 position" (source: BK, PPR, pp. 354-355)

in August 1976, "So Phim denounced [Chhouk] as a traitor in accordance with the information he had received from above, from the Center." Phim based his denunciation on Chakrey's confession which implicated Chhouk (source: BK, PPR, p. 329-330)

in early 1977, "a second new Front Committee was set up, headed by So Phim with Ke Pauk as his deputy" (source: BK, PPR, p. 369)

In May 1978, Pauk purged Phim and his followers from the Eastern Zone leadership, and destroyed his military base (source: BK, PPR, pp. 395-401)

On May 25, 1978, the Eastern Zone 'coup' staged by Ke Pauk began; finding himself surrounded, Phim shot himself on June 3. His wife and children were massacred while preparing his body for a funeral (source: BK, PPR, pp. 395-400)

So Phim was among Issarak troops who went to Hanoi after Geneva (source: BK, HPP, p. 154)

disappeared into the forest in 1964 (source: BK, HPP, p. 212)

Phim's forces joined the 1968 rebellion in August, but mounted a limited campaign and kept in close touch with the Vietnamese (source: BK, HPP, p. 250)

in 1974, So Phim finally relented, and "broke with the Eastern Zone tradition of solidarity with the Vietnamese" (source: BK, HPP, p. 388)

Location from smallest to larger: Dauntei Subdistrict (source: BK, PPR, p. 355)

19780603 (source: BK, PPR, p. 400)

19960703 (source: BK, HPP, pp. 310, 420)

Location from smallest to larger: near Prek Pra village, Notes: on the road from Srei Santhor to Peareang district (source: BK, PPR, p. 399)

Zone Name or Compass Point: E (source: BK, PPR, p. 89)

Zone Name or Compass Point: E, Province Name: Kampong Cham, District No.: 20, District Name: Ponhea Krek, Village Name: Bos (source: BK, PPR, p. 313)

fled capital in 1957, and got work building houses in the suburb of Tuk Laak (source: BK, HPP, p. 175)

"round-faced stocky man, about 1.8 meters tall, with dark skin" (source: BK, PPR, p. 89)

Issarak officer (source: BK, PPR, p. 90)

Unified Issarak Front (source: BK, HPP, pp. 152-154)

member of KPRP's temporary Central Committee in late 1950s (source: BK, HPP, p. 187)

CPK secretary, Eastern Zone (source: BK, PPR, p. 89)

formally fourth in the CPK Standing Committee hierarchy, Phim was omitted from Party Center (source: BK, PPR, p. 100)

Kiernan has found no evidence of Phim's participation in the Party Center's decisions in DK's first two years; "For the crucial year from September 1975 to August 1976, the evidence shows Phim to be well out of the loop" (source: BK, PPR, p. 314)

vice president of the new DK State Presidium, 197604?? (source: BK, PPR, p. 330)

Eastern Zone CPK Secretary (source: BK, PPR, p. 328)

Standing Committee member, Third Party Congress (source: BK, HPP, p. 200)

part of the Eastern Zone Executive (including Phuong and Chhouk), serving as Party Secretary, 1970???? (source: BK, HPP, p. 315)

organized resistance in the Eastern Zone (source: BK, PPR, p. 396)

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. 14-15, 89-90, 100, 313-314, 324, 328-330, 351-352, 354-355, 369, 395

How Pol Pot Came to power: a history of Communism in Kampuchea, 1930-1975 / Ben Kiernan. London, Verso, 1985. (BK, HPP), pp. 14, 152, 154, 175, 179, 187, 190, 200, 250, 279, 315, 328, 387-388, 392, 420, 429

Phuong, deputy (source: BK, PPR, p. 90)