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Koy Thuon
Cambodian politician (1933-1977) · Cambodia · On the map · Politicians · Died at 44
Koy Thuon was a Cambodian politician, intellectual and a member of the Central Committee of the Khmer Rouge.
Koy Thuon is read about 13 times a day, in 7 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 3 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 119 days, one point a day.
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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.
