Vorn Vet

Vorn Vet
វ៉ន វេត
Deputy Prime Minister of the Economy
In office
1975–1978
Personal details
Born
Sok Thuok (សុក ធួក)

1929 (1929)
French Indochina
Died1978(1978-00-00) (aged 48–49)
Democratic Kampuchea

In this Cambodian name, the surname is Vorn. In accordance with Cambodian custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Vet.

Vorn Vet (Khmer: វ៉ន វេត; 1929–1978), born Sok Thuok (សុក ធួក),[1] was a Cambodian politician who served as deputy prime minister for the economy of Democratic Kampuchea. He was responsible for appointing Kang Kek Iew to his position as head of Special Security.[2] He was murdered at the S-21 security camp in 1978 after he led an unsuccessful coup d'état in December 1978 against the regime of Pol Pot.

  1. ^ Kiernan, Ben (October 2008). The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300142990.
  2. ^ Paul Robert Bartrop: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, 2012, ISBN 978-0-313-38678-7, S. 326.