General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea

The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Khmer: អគ្គលេខាធិការគណៈកម្មាធិការមជ្ឈិមបក្សកុម្មុយនីស្តកម្ពុជា) was the highest office in the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK).[1] The General Secretary was elected at plenary sessions of the party's Central Committee, and chaired the Secretariat and Politburo. The office was abolished when the CPK dissolved in 1981, two years after being removed from power in the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.

General Secretary of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
អគ្គលេខាធិការគណៈកម្មាធិការមជ្ឈិមបក្សកុម្មុយនីស្តកម្ពុជា
Emblem of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
Banner of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
Last in office
Pol Pot
22 February 1963 – 6 December 1981
Central Committee of the Communist Party
StatusParty leader
Member ofPolitburo
Secretariat
SeatPhnom Penh
AppointerCentral Committee
Formation30 September 1960 (1960-09-30)
First holderTou Samouth
Final holderPol Pot
Abolished6 December 1981 (1981-12-06)

Pol Pot's Suicide


On the evening of April 15 1998, just 2 days before anniversary of Khmer Rouge's brutal takeover of Cambodia on April 17 1975, Pol Pot killed himself when he became aware of Ta Mok's plan to hand him over to the United States for war crimes trial. He ingested a lethal dose of a combination of Valium and Chloroquine which slowed down his breathing and thus his heart stopped. He never admitted that he did anything wrong to Cambodian people. On his death face, there were signs of suffering consistent with suicide in his pupiul. One of his eyes was opened. Pol Pot was cremated without any ceremony or fanfare. On March 6 1999, Khmer Rouge ceased to exist when its last leader Ta Mok aka 'The Butcher' was arrested. He died in prison awaiting trial for genocide and war crimes.

General secretaries
No.
 Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 In office Notes
From To Duration
1 Tou Samouth
(1915–1962)		 30 September 1960 20 July 1962 1 year, 293 days Inaugural officeholder; disappeared under disputed circumstances in July 1962.
2
Pol Pot
(1925–1998)		 22 February 1963 6 December 1981 18 years, 287 days Elected in February 1963, maintained post until the dissolution in 1981. Under his leadership, the party's guerrilla branch, Khmer Rouge, succeeded in overthrowing US-backed military government of Lon Nol, and on 17 April 1975, established Democratic Kampuchea, an agrarian socialist dictatorship.

See also

References
  1. "A Delicate History". The Cambodia Daily. 23–24 March 2002. Archived from the original on 13 August 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2011.


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