Khieu Thirith

Y00333

Khieu

Thirith

PPP, pp. 228, 274 / BK, HHP, pp. 28, 120, 175-176, 185, 250, 359 / BK, PPR, pp. 11, 100, 160, 236 / EB, WWO, pp. 103, 185, 247

Sister Phea ;

Female ;

notes: a Battambang judge related to the royal family (BK, HPP, p. 28)

Ieng Sary ;type of rel.: H ; (BK, HPP, p. 28) ~ Khieu Ponnary ;type of rel.: S ; (BK, HPP, p. 28) ~ Mey Pho ;type of rel.: C ; (BK, HPP, p. 28) ~ Chhan Sokhom ;type of rel.: C ; (BK, HPP, p. 28) ~ Khieu Tham ;type of rel.: B ; (BK, HPP, p. 28) ~ Ieng Sary ;type of rel.: H ; (BK, PPR, p. 11) ~ Khieu Ponnary ;type of rel.: S ; (BK, PPR, p. 11) ~ Ieng Sary ;type of rel.: H ; (EB, WWO, p. 103) ~ Khieu Ponnary ;type of rel.: S ; (EB, WWO, p. 103) ~ Pol Pot ;type of rel.: BL ; (EB, WWO, p. 103)

attended Sisowath high school (BK, HPP, p. 28) ~ ;notes: first Khmer "to graduate in English Literature" (BK, HPP, p. 120) ~ educated in Paris, majoring in Shakespeare studies (BK, PPR, p. 11) ~ degree in English from the Sorbonne (EB, WWO, p. 103)

;notes: a student in Paris (returned in 1957)(BK, HPP, p. 175) ~ ;notes: teacher in Phnom Penh (BK, HPP, p. 176) ~ ;notes: In 1960, Thirith established (Boeng Trabek)English-language high school in Phnom Penh (BK, HPP, p. 185) ~ .2, 1959???? ;notes: teacher at a government Lycee in Phnom Penh (EB, WWO, p. 103)

in charge of the National United Front of Kampuchea radio in Hanoi to 1975???? (PPP, p. 274)

On October 9, 1975, at a meeting of the CPK Standing Committee, Khieu Thirith was placed in charge of culture, social welfare, and jointly responsible with her husband, Ieng Sary, for foreign affairs (BK, PPR, p. 100) ~ Minister of Social Affairs (EB, WWO, p. 186)

In April 1967, Thirith was spotted at Samlaut, at around the beginning of the outbreak of fighting (BK, HPP, p. 250 ) ~ As "early as 1971-1972 Ieng Sary and his wife Ieng Thirith had established their political authority over the Khmers" living in Hanoi. Thirith, for instance, "was in charge of the radio" (BK, HPP, p. 359) ~ In 1972, Thirith ordered Pen Sovan, a CPK resident in Hanoi, to compile a list of those Khmer communists who had spent the Sihanouk years in Hanoi (BK, HPP, p. 359) ~ hosted Vietnamese delegation's visit to Cambodia in February 1977, representing the Women's Association of Democratic Kampuchea." The visit was a tense one. Part of the visit included a three-day round trip to Angkor (BK, PPR, p. 160) ~ sent to the Northwest Zone by Pol Pot in 1976 to investigate health, diet, and housing of workers (reported to be inadequate)(EB, WWO, p. 247)

Ieng Sary (PPP, p. 228) ~ Son Sen (PPP, p. 228) ~ Pol Pot (PPP, p. 228) ~ Khieu Samphan (PPP, p. 228) ~ Yun Yat (PPP, p. 228) ~ Khieu Ponnary (PPP, p. 228) ~ Pen Sovan, 1972???? (BK, HPP, p. 359) ~ Sou, an assistant, 1972???? (BK, HPP, p. 359) ~ Ieng Sary ;notes: husband (EB, WWO, p. 103)

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