Ieng Sary

Y00464

Ieng

Sary

PPP, p. 7, 228, 299, 302, 343 / EB, WWO, pp. 69-70, 91, 98, 103, 107, 178, 182-187, 280, 311-312, 317, 324, 328-331, 425-426 / BK, HPP, p. 28, 32, 119, 120, 172, 176-177, 203, 310, 359 / BKI 204, p. 3

Van ;

Male

Vietnam (EB, WWO, p. 69) ~ "born into a mixed Khmer-Chinese landowning family in Travinh (BK, HPP, p. 28)

Khieu Ponnary ;type of rel.: SL ; (EB, WWO, p. 103) ~ Pol Pot ; (EB, WWO, p. 103) ~ Khieu Thirith ;type of rel.: W ; (PPP, p. 228) ~ Khieu Thirith ;type of rel.: W ; (EB, WWO, p. 91) ~ Khieu Thirith ;type of rel.: W ; (BK, HPP, p. 32) ~ Khieu Ponnary ;type of rel.: SL ; (BK, HPP, p. 28)

studied in Paris, 1950???? (EB, WWO, p. 70) ~ studied in Paris in the 1950s (PPP, p. 228) ~ attended Sisowath School (EB, WWO, p. 69) ~ attended Sisowath High School (BK, HPP, p. 32) ~ studied in France (BK, HPP, p. 119)

;notes: taught at lycee "Kampuchea But" opened by Phnom Penh branch of the the Communist Party (EB, WWO, p. 98) ~ ;notes: teacher in a private school (BK, HPP, p. 176) ~ ;notes: employed by Hou Yuon at privately run Kambuboth High School (BK, HPP, p. 177)

5th position in the Worker's Party of Kampuchea, 1960???? (EB, WWO, p. 107-108)

member of standing committee (EB, WWO, p. 211) ~ confirmed member of the Standing Committee ;notes: mid-1976 (PPP, p. 343) ~ Minister of Foreign Affairs (EB, WWO, p. 185, 211)

travelled to New York to address UN, and hinted Western journalists might soon be permitted to visit Cambodia, 1977???? (EB, WWO, p. 317) ~ in an interview with US journalists, refuted accusations of genocide on the part of Khmer Rouge and claimed that it was the US who had committed genocide in Cambodia and were responsible for 800,000 Cambodian deaths during the war (EB, WWO, p. 324) ~ attended UN General Assembly and held a news conference, where he announced that he had invited UN secretary Kurt Waldheim to visit Cambodia and investigate charges of human rights violations. He also said he would soon invite foreign journalists to visit and do the same, 197810?? (EB, WWO, p. 330) ~ in an interview with American and British journalists, expressed the opinion that war with Vietnam was inevitable (EB, WWO, p. 426 ) ~ at a meeting of the Party Center on March 30, 1976, he was assigned the position of Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs of the government of Democratic Kampuchea (PPP, p. 7) ~ before August 1976 (early in the rainy season), he participated in a meeting held by the Organization between himself, Khieu Samphan, Hu Nim, and other members of the Foreign Ministry to prepare for the upcoming Conference of Non-Alligned nations in Colombo (PPP, p. 299) ~ in the fall of 1967, attended UN General Assembly session and declared Democratic Kampuchea a nonaligned nation; urged poor majority of nations of UN to end control of rich minority over the assembly; charged US with continuing "criminal activities" against his country" (EB, WWO, p. 280) ~ with other Khmer students living in Paris, Sary in 1950 formed a "Marxist Circle", "apprently affiliated with the French Communist Party (PCF)as its "Khmer-language section"; during this time, Sary "made a point of studying Stalin's writings on policy towards minority nationalities in the Soviet Union" (BK, HPP, p. 119-120) ~ returned to Phnom Penh in January 1957 (BK, HPP, p. 172) ~ In 1970, Ieng Sary left for Hanoi, to deal with the Vietnamese and Sihanouk in Beijing (BK, HPP, p. 310) ~ In May 1963, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary disappeared from their jobs in Phnom Penh and moved to the border area of Kampong Cham (BK, HPP, p. 203) ~ 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)

Kimseth (BKI 204, p. 3260)

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