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244
and popular support
267
,
287
returns to Phnom Penh (1975)
329
–32
addresses UN General Assembly
330
tours provinces
333
–4,
347
resigns
334
–5
under house arrest in Phnom Penh
335
,
355
,
388
and Pol Pot
338
,
396
reappears
389
seeks political asylum in US
403
agrees to return to Beijing
403
Chinese support vis-à-vis Khmers Rouges
404
–5,
414
forms government-in-exile
415
–16
becomes head of state
420
and Sihanoukist National Army
421
meets Hun Sen at Fère-en-Tardenois
424
attends Jakarta talks
424
–5
returns to Cambodia, reascends throne
427
–8,
430
–2
as symbol
448
Norodom Suramarit, King
110
,
111
,
131
North Korea
332
,
377
Nuon Chea
454
–5
becomes communist
5
,
119
heads Phnom Penh City Committee
119
–20
conducts political seminars
122
Sieu Heng’s betrayal
124
member of General Affairs Committee
135
elected to CPK Standing Committee at
1
st Congress
137
–9
undercover in Phnom Penh
143
–4,
151
travels to Loc Ninh
161
orders end to ‘Samlaut events’
166
decides on armed uprising
169
–70,
173
travels to Ratanakiri
186
meets Pol Pot, rebases on the Chinit river
213
,
222
–3
cousin to Sak Sutsakhan
264
inspects evacuation of Phnom Penh
286
–7
and new linguistic usages
325
becomes President of National Assembly Committee Standing Committee
336
on importance of leading organs
337
–8,
399
practices nepotism
347
and Vietnam
356
responsible for Tuol Sleng
358
–9
calls for ‘revolutionary vigilance’
369
visits Beijing
388
re-appointed Pol Pot’s deputy
392
abandons Phnom Penh
398
orders killing of prisoners at Tuol Sleng
400
agrees to dissolve CPK
416
defers to Son Sen
423
on Southern Front
431
,
438
rallies to Mok
441
defects to Hun Sen government
443
Oberg, Jean-Christophe
241
Observateur, l’
132
,
133
,
134
,
139
Observer
(newspaper)
207
Oda
431
Office
100
(Kang Lêng)
103
,
172
,
173
,
176
Office
100
(Ta Not)
146
,
148
,
162
,
169
,
176
Office
102
172
,
192
Office
131
411
,
413
Ohira, Masayoshi
420
Ok Sakun
137
,
314
n
Ong Thong Hoeung
314
,
315
–26
Operation Eagle Pull
263
Operation Menu
182
,
185
Orsini, Prince Raimondo
333
Orwell, George
12
,
325
O’Suosadey (‘Good-day River’)
421
–2,
423
Ouch
58
Oudong
6
,
16
,
228
occupied by Khmers Rouges
255
evacuated
257
Northern Zone troops capture for second time
263
Oum Mannorine
196
Overseas Chinese
374
Overseas Vietnamese
39
,
42
Oxfam
290
P-36
159
Pach Choeunn
30
,
74
–5
Padevat
newspaper
326
Pailin
102
,
165
,
436
,
443
Khmers Rouges occupy
277
and Chinese Embassy (1979)
406
and Pol Pot’s headquarters
428
–9,
431
overrun by Vietnamese
432
and Son Sen’s disgrace
440
Pan Sothi
273
Pancasila
108
–9,
140
Pâng
172
,
212
,
455
Paracel Islands
297
Paris accords on Cambodia (1991)
427
–8,
432
,
437
Paris accords on Vietnam (1973) progress of talks
181
,
197
,
239
consequences for Khmers Rouges
242
–3,
245
,
249
Paris Commune (1871)
69
,
287
Paris Match
435
Party of Democratic Kampuchea
423
,
429
Pathet Lao
54
,
103
,
242
Patriotic Democratic Front of Grand National Union of Kampuchea (FGUNDPK)
415
PCF
see
French Communist Party
Peam commune
228
Peangpas, Princess
79
‘peasantisation’
433
,
436
Pen Sovann
379
,
390
,
424
Peng Zhen
159
,
160
Penn Nouth
106
,
108
,
184
,
455
on Cambodia’s past
33
and Khmer students in Paris
79
heads GRUNC
240
,
304
and Khmers Rouges
334
–5,
336
n,
336
,
404
Penn Yuth
114
,
124
People’s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK)
427
;
see also
Cambodia; Democratic Kampuchea
established
409
Hun Sen’s coup (1997)
447
People’s Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea (PRPK)
409
,
428
People’s Revolutionary Party of Khmerland (PRPK)
55
,
97
–8,
119
,
121
,
135
Pétain, Marshal
28
,
29
Pham Hung
242
Pham Van Ba
96
,
97
,
105
,
122
Pham Van Dong
455
at Geneva Conference
103
and Sihanouk
182
,
198
–9
and Zhou Enlai
185
and Pol Pot
188
,
202
and halting of Vietnamese aid to Khmers Rouges
250
acrimonious visit to Beijing (1977)
374
seeks support in South-East Asia
390
Phay
99
Phem
16
Phi Phuon
228
,
276
,
307
,
455
and Pol Pot
212
,
265
and Caldwell killing
394
at Kamrieng
412
Phnom Chhat (‘Umbrella Mountain’)
431
,
432
,
434
Phnom Penh
falls to the Khmer Rouge
3
–4,
7
,
9
–10,
264
–5,
271
,
273
evacuated
10
,
272
–4,
287
–8
cosmopolitan population
24
–5,
216
districts
25
Americans mistakenly bomb city (1945)
33
Teacher Training College
37
,
122
demonstrations by Son Ngoc Thanh’s supporters
75
anti-Vietnamese protests
194
–6
rotting from within
261
,
264
besieged
262
Pol Pot enters
286
looted
310
–11
appearance
310
–13
Roman Catholic Cathedral demolished
313
abandoned by Khmer Rouge leaders
398
Phouk Chhay
154
,
169
,
367
Phoumi Nosavan
138
Phoune Sipraseuth
303
Phu Quoc Island
296
Phuong
336
n
Pich Chheang
306
–7,
358
,
442
,
455
Picq, Laurence
349
,
414
impressions of Phnom Penh
309
–10
spends the Khmer Rouge years in Cambodia
309
–10
at the Foreign Ministry
311
–12,
314
–15,
318
,
366
,
396
and inequalities
345
–6,
412
Pin Yathay
267
,
278
,
282
,
320
,
327
–8,
349
Ping Sây
153
,
455
–5
and Pol Pot
31
,
36
,
42
joins the Democrats
37
student days in Paris
63
–4,
83
and Ea Sichau
89
edits
Ekhepheap
114
attends CPK
1
st Congress
138
n
at S–71 with Pol Pot
224
–5,
247
–8
under suspicion
304
,
330
writes Khmer Rouge textbooks
349
–50
Po Kombo Regiment
99
,
104
Pochentong Airport
270
,
286
Pok Deuskomar
190
,
224
Pok Khun
35
Pol Pot
450
as a teacher
5
,
6

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