# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/koy-thuon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:58:03.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/koy-thuon"
name: "Koy Thuon"
slug: "koy-thuon"
description: "Koy Thuon was a Cambodian politician, intellectual and a member of the Central Committee of the Khmer Rouge. A former high school teacher, he had joined the revolutionary movement in the 1960s and had risen to become Finance Minister of Democratic Kampuchea and leader of the Northern Zone before being arrested along with all his colleagues and associates in 1977, sent to the infamous S-21 concentration camp. He was replaced by Ta Pok as the leader of the Northern Zone and executed the same year he was arrested."
tagline: "Cambodian politician (1933-1977)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1933"
deathDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.79
  momentum:             0.3092783505154638
  historical:           6.549353333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B4%B5%E6%95%A6"
    title: "贵敦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koy_Thuon"
    title: "Koy Thuon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3"
    title: "コイ・トゥオン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%80%E1%9E%BB%E1%9E%99_%E1%9E%92%E1%9E%BD%E1%9E%93"
    title: "កុយ ធួន"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koy_Thuon"
    title: "Koy Thuon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%A2%D1%85%D1%83%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Кой Тхуон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koy_Thuon"
    title: "Koy Thuon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4227163"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump