Hu Nim

In this Cambodian name, the surname is Hu. In accordance with Cambodian custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Nim.
Hu Nim
Hu Nim, wearing the krama, as a member of the GRUNK
Personal details
Born(1932-07-25)25 July 1932
Kampong Cham, Cambodia, French Indochina
Died6 July 1977(1977-07-06) (aged 44)
Tuol Sleng, Phnom Penh, Democratic Kampuchea
Cause of deathTorture murder
Political partyCommunist Party of Kampuchea
Alma materRoyal University of Phnom Penh
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Hu Nim (Khmer: ហូ នឹម, 25 July 1930 or 1932 – 6 July 1977), alias "Phoas" (ភាស់), was a Cambodian Communist intellectual and politician who held a number of ministerial posts. His long political career included spells with the Sangkum regime of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Communist guerrilla resistance, the GRUNK coalition government-in-exile, and the administration of Democratic Kampuchea, when the country was controlled by the Communist Party of Kampuchea (the Khmer Rouge).

Nim had a reputation as one of the most independent-minded and outspoken members of the Khmer Rouge, and was eventually arrested, tortured and executed at Tuol Sleng security prison in 1977 during a party purge.