This day in history, June 16, 1951, 60 years ago, the Khmer Issarak Mouvement fighting gainst the French occupation was born in Trapeang Roung Village, Srok Sre Ambel, Khet Koh Kong, according to Mr. Pen Sovann, in his autobiography (2002). It lead by Achar Mean aka Son Ngoc Minh. There was some confusion in this assertion because in that year according to Steve Heder in his book "Cambodian Communism and the Vietnamese Model", there were mention of " Re-emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) as the Vietnam Workers Party (VWP)" and in Cambodia, a set up of "a secret, crypto-Communist Khmer Revolutionnary People's Party (KPRPP) as a seedbed for further training of Cambodian Communists". It seems that Pen Sovann used the Khmer Issarak as a camouflage, and the present day Cambodian People Party is an offspring of that KPRPP that came with the Vietnamese invasion in 1978-9.
There is a need to find the truth on this...
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