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Son Ngoc Minh (1920 - 1972) was a Cambodian politician whose first notable career achievement was in 1950 when he was appointed the head of provisional revolutionary government of the United Issarak Front organized at Hongdan. Among his Vietnamese friends, he was known as Pham Van Hua.
Son Ngoc Minh was Achar Mean in 1920, to a Khmer father and a Vietnamese mother. In his youth, he was a former Buddhist lay preacher, and was recruited by Vietnamese communists to serve as President of a newly-formed Cambodian People's Liberation Committee (CPLC) in Battambang.
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Son Ngoc Minh (1920 - 1972) was a Cambodian politician whose first notable career achievement was in 1950 when he was appointed the head of provisional revolutionary government of the United Issarak Front organized at Hongdan. Among his Vietnamese friends, he was known as Pham Van Hua.
Son Ngoc Minh was Achar Mean in 1920, to a Khmer father and a Vietnamese mother. In his youth, he was a former Buddhist lay preacher, and was recruited by Vietnamese communists to serve as President of a newly-formed Cambodian People's Liberation Committee (CPLC) in Battambang. Minh had been born in a Khmer district of southern Vietnam of mixed Khmer-Vietnamese parentage, which meant he was the nearest the Vietnamese had to an authentic Khmer revolutionary. The nom de guerre was intended to capitalise on the popularity of Sihanouk's banished rival, Son Ngoc Thanh, then still languishing in exile in France." from Pol Pot (c) 2004 Philip Short.
Son Ngoc Minh was the leader of the first nationwide congress of the leftist Khmer Issarak groups convened, which founded the United Issarak Front. He along with Tou Samouth founded the Khmer People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) in August 1951.
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