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commands Highway
1
Front
372
visits Beijing
388
becomes full Standing Committee member
392
and Vietnamese invasion
395
–6,
398
explains dissolution of CPK
416
member of Military Directorate
417
and Pol Pot
422
,
428
–9,
436
,
440
commands resistance Southern Front
431
disgraced
436
–8
killed
440
Sorya Roeungsy
330
Sotoán Prychea In
123
,
143
South China Sea
374
South-East Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO)
113
,
155
Soviet
20
th Party Congress (1956)
136
Soviet Embassy, Phnom Penh
272
Soy Dao
422
Speu forest
212
Sramar Leav
280
Stalin, Joseph
55
,
68
,
98
,
248
,
291
,
300
,
388
,
445
influence on Pol Pot
13
,
47
,
65
–8,
71
,
147
,
318
,
361
,
364
,
444
recognises Ho Chi Minh’s government
59
attitude to dissent, heresy
69
,
71
Marxism and the National Question
66
History of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of the USSR
66
–7
Stamboliski, Aleksandr
257
Stil, André
69
Stung Trang
304
,
330
Stung Treng
171
–2,
176
,
204
,
395
Sukarno, President
113
,
163
,
164
,
185
Sun Hao
332
,
350
,
406
Suong Sikoeun
73
,
340
,
457
Supreme National Council (1975)
264
Supreme National Council (1991)
427
,
430
Svay Rieng province
99
,
101
,
104
,
112
,
114
,
131
,
204
,
377
Viet Cong sanctuaries in
185
n,
194
Svay Sittha
12
Swain, Jon
266
Swank, Emory
222
,
260
Switzerland
50
,
52
,
103
Ta Not, South Vietnam
145
,
146
Taing Poun
262
Taiwan
150
–1
Takeo
3
,
40
,
88
,
112
,
205
,
207
,
250
,
384
Takhmau
263
,
265
Tam
166
Tap Chi Cons San
(journal)
391
Tasanh
396
,
399
,
406
–8
Tat Marina
12
Tatum
439
Teachers’ Association
154
Tep Khunnal
434
,
435
,
439
,
443
Teur Kam
192
Thailand
165
,
243
,
289
perceived threat from
6
,
41
,
69
,
191
,
218
,
293
19th-c atrocities
16
,
25
Thais in Phnom Penh
24
invades Cambodia (1940)
28
and Son Ngoc Thanh
30
and Khmer Issarak
35
,
39
and Viet Minh
39
and US
53
,
113
,
124
,
127
,
155
,
181
,
264
and Sihanouk
92
–3
and Nuon Chea
119
and ‘Bangkok Plot’
124
–5,
127
relationship with Sihanouk’s government deteriorates
139
and Khmers Rouges
259
–60
airlift to Lon Nol government
263
‘blueprint for the future’
290
and Communist Party of Thailand
295
,
342
,
372
–3,
376
relations stabilise
303
and Democratic Kampuchea
359
,
367
,
372
–3,
381
and Deng Xiaoping
391
foreign diplomats flee to
396
,
398
supports Khmers Rouges after Vietnamese invasion
402
–3,
405
–6,
417
,
420
and Cambodian refugees
408
,
410
–12,
429
harbours Pol Pot
408
,
421
–2,
432
Unit 838
411
,
422
and peace negotiations
420
–1,
424
,
426
–7
provides Pol Pot with medical treatment
421
,
435
and Khmers Rouges after breakdown of peace process
431
,
433
,
435
foils plot to kidnap Pol Pot
439
–40
specialists examine Pol Pot’s body
442
Thang Si
171
Thayer, Nate
441
,
442
Thion, Serge
253
Thiounn Chum
457
student days in Paris
48
,
52
supports resistance
261
expelled from Phnom Penh
275
quits Khmers Rouges
420
Thiounn Mala
9
,
236
Thiounn Mumm
37
,
457
background
32
recruits Khmer teachers
32
–3
student days in Paris
48
,
51
,
59
–64,
73
,
80
–1
and 1955 elections
107
,
111
,
113
and Pol Pot
108
,
116
heads Cercle Marxiste
154
with Sihanouk in Beijing
200
–3,
267
joins CPK
241
on peasant habits
269
and failings of Khmers Rouges
283
,
308
given special treatment
314
on leaders’ living conditions
346
heads National Technical College
383
quits Khmers Rouges
420
Thiounn Prasith
83
,
241
,
250
n,
314
n,
457
Thiounn Thioeunn
212
,
457
aristocratic origins
9
and Pol Pot
9
,
434
Minister of Health
9
,
336
n,
349
and Sihanouk
45
joins the Khmers Rouges
236
Thippadey, Mt
277
Thmar Puok
327
Thommayut sect
21
Thorez, Maurice
67
–9
Thu Duc
390
Thvak
166
,
174
Tillon, Charles
68
Tito, Marshal
69
,
113
Tiv Ol
458
recruits for CPK in Prey Veng
153
in Ratanakiri
212
at S–31
224
dropped from government
336
n
disgraced
348
,
355
Toch Phoeun
44
,
120
,
224
,
336
n,
367
Toek Chrâp stream
172
Tonle Sap river
15
,
26
,
52
,
228
,
330
,
352
Tou Samouth
104
,
150
,
458
becomes Khmer Viet Minh leader
54
–5,
58
,
97
takes Pol Pot as secretary
100
deputy head of PRPK provisional leadership
115
heads Party’s urban networks
119
suspects Sieu Heng
124
and First Party Congress
135
,
138
138
killed by Lon Nol
141
former monk
150
Tran Kim Tuyen
126
n
Tran Nam Trung, General
223
Trapeang Kroloeung
87
Trat
435
Travinh
4
Truong Chinh
53
,
55
,
56
,
70
Truong Chinh Institute
55
Truong Nhu Tang
145
,
215
–17
Tuk Nhung
55
,
104
,
115
,
116
Tung Padevat
224
,
323
,
361
–2n,
390
Tuol Sleng torture centre (S–21)
119
n
purpose of
358
–9,
363
as totalitarian institution
364
–8
use of violence
371
and secrecy
400
turned into a museum
446
Tuol Svay Prey
119
Uch Ven
129
,
134
,
154
Um Savuth
219
‘Umbrella Revolt’ (1942)
30
,
32
UNICEF
411
Union of Khmer Students (UEK)
154
United Nations
346
Cambodia’s seat retained by Lon Nol
261
addressed by Sihanouk
330
,
396
,
403
,
404
n
and Ieng Sary
404
n,
419
seats Democratic Kampuchea (1979)
412
US role in support of Khmers Rouges
420
–1,
426
Peacekeeping operation (UNTAC)

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