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Chhuon became
Sihanouk's Internal Security Minister, and the Governor of Siem Reap Province. Although he had begun his career fighting alongside the Viet Minh, Chhuon's increasingly strident anti-communism caused him to be suggested by Robert McClintock, the US Ambassador to Cambodia between 1954 and
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Chhuon had a reputation for extreme brutality which had rapidly alienated the other
Issarak leaders, and ruled effectively by personal decree. He was held in awe by the local peasantry. They accredited him with powers of invulnerability, reinforced by his habit of demonstrating feats of strength and
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One of Chhuon's brothers, Kem Srey, was closely associated with him in his political activities; another brother, Kem Penh, was an international arms dealer. A half-brother, Slat Peou (1929โ60), an embassy worker and later the
Sangkum delegate for Siem Reap, was executed for his involvement in the
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1956, to cultivate as a possible replacement for
Sihanouk. His disagreements with Sihanouk over the latter's courting of communist China led to him being dropped from the cabinet in 1957, however, and he began to openly break with Sihanouk's regime.
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he was captured by โ or deserted to โ Thai forces, and in 1943 again deserted from the
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resistance. However, in late 1949 he and his men went over to the French, who rewarded him with virtual control of parts of northern
Cambodia and an official military post as commander of the "Franco-Khmer Corps".
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political organisation. During the 1955 elections, Chhuon's militia were routinely used to break up rallies of
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party) which proclaimed themselves as monarchist, traditionalist and rightist. This rightist alliance formed the basis of
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The Indochinese experience of the French and the Americans
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326:My War with the CIA
73:Chhuon was born in
374:Cambodian generals
324:Norodom Sihanouk,
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181:References
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64:guerrilla
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