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and three mistresses. Six months later, Sam Sary was involved in another scandal when one of his female servants—Iv Eng Seng, who bore him a child—went to the London police, accusing him of severely beating her for "minor mistakes". By other accounts, her name was Soeung Son Maly and she used to date
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The evil genius behind the repression was Sam Sary—a bestial man. As an investigating magistrate in the 1940s, he had beaten suspects to death with his own hands. Then he went study in France. In 1955, he joined the
Sangkum and became Sihanouk's closest aide ... After Sihanouk decided to use
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I corrected her by hitting her with a
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