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IENG SARY |
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Born in 1926 in Cochinchina (a French colony in what is
southern Vietnam today), Ieng Sary became a member of the
Communist Party of France while he was a student in Paris
during the 1950s, In 1960, he joined the Central Committee
of the Cambodian Communist Party and in 1963, its Standing
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While the government was cracking down on communists in
1963, he and Pol Pot fled from Phnom Penh to Vietnam. In
August 1971, Ieng Sary was sent to Beijing as the “Special
Emissary of the Section of the Royal Government Inside the
Country.” He also handled the CPK's international
relations. Sary returned to Cambodia approximately one week
after the CPK victory on April 17, 1975, and in August 1975
he was formally named a Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign
Affairs. |
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