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153
and Samlaut ‘events’ North-West Zone Deputy Secretary
165
–7
and 1958 uprising
173
attends CPK’s Third Congress
227
as Issarak
281
arrested and purged
392
Kor Bunheng
434
Korean War
53
,
68
,
128
,
245
n
Kossamak, Queen and Pol Pot
27
as feudal conservative
83
,
92
,
131
–2,
153
and ‘Bangkok Plot’
126
and Sihanouk
188
,
330
Kossarak, Prince
17
Kosygin, Alexei
197
Kou Roun in,
133
Koy Thuon
452
in Northern Zone
153
,
174
,
212
,
222
attends CPK’s Third Congress
227
and conquest of Phnom Penh
271
–3,
286
on abolition of money
307
as Commerce Minister
336
n,
354
–5
arrested and purged
354
–5,
358
,
366
,
368
Krâbao
96
,
101
–5,
117
,
145
,
203
,
235
,
314
Kranhoung
166
Kratie
144
,
212
in civil war
204
,
206
,
212
,
256
–7
COSVN headquarters
223
occupied by Vietnamese
395
–6
Krauchhmar
354
Kriangsak, General
381
,
391
,
402
,
405
,
408
,
411
Kropotkin, Prince Pëtr
150
,
317
The Great Revolution
72
,
74
k’ruu,
19
Kuala Lumpur
390
,
419
Kumârajîva
299
L–7
224
Lamant, Pierre
34
,
58
Lancaster, Donald
167
Langlade, General Pierre de
80
,
81
,
87
,
92
,
95
,
106
Laniel, Joseph
94
Lao People’s Revolutionary Party
55
,
158
Laos
53
,
103
,
105
,
181
,
198
,
251
,
332
,
357
,
395
and Angkorian empire
7
and ICP
38
–9,
103
and Vietnam
105
,
181
,
197
–9,
251
,
357
,
374
and Democratic Kampuchea
303
,
332
,
395
Le Duan
55
,
188
,
192
n,
357
,
389
,
452
–3
organises guerrilla attacks against French
38
attends Hatien meeting
54
based in Phnom Penh
121
meets Pol Pot
157
–8,
161
–2,
202
–5
authorises Paris peace talks
197
meets Ieng Sary
243
meets Khmer Rouge delegation in Hanoi (1975)
297
–8
meets Mao
300
,
373
requests Chinese aid
302
–3,
377
obtains Russian aid
303
jubilant at Pol Pot’s supposed resignation
362
chairs emergency Politburo meeting
375
and ‘boat people’
379
meets Cambodian rebels
379
signs Friendship Treaty with Russia
390
Le Due Anh
395
Le Due Tho
3
,
38
,
243
,
386
,
453
organises guerrilla attacks
38
attends Hatien meeting
54
heads P–36
158
meets Cambodian rebels
379
,
390
League for Vietnamese Independence
see
Viet Minh
Lee Kwan Yew
342
,
391
,
447
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich
66
,
97
,
98
,
147
,
300
,
343
,
444
ABC of Communism
64
Economic Problems of Socialism
66
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
66
Left-wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder
158
Lenox Hill Hospital, New York
403
Letourneau, Jean
83
Liaison Committee of Colonial Students’ Associations
62
Liu Shaoqi
150
,
159
Loc Ninh meeting (1966)
161
–2
Lon Nol
276
,
453
seizes power from Sihanouk
4
,
36
,
196
–8
house searched
77
kills Dap Chhuon
126
security role
123
,
141
,
154
,
163
,
167
–9,
183
Prime Minister
162
–9
brought back by Sihanouk
175
re-appointed Prime Minister
184
–5,
187
medical treatment in Switzerland
187
,
189
and Sirik Matak
195
–8
distrusted by Zhou Enlai
198
wages religious war against Vietnamese communists
208
–9
abolishes the monarchy
209
,
214
weeps when told limits of US involvement
221
–2
suffersa stroke
222
exile in Hawaii
263
Lon Non
and Pol Pot
36
and Lon Nol
209
misreads Khmer Rouge intentions
267
executed
263
,
271
Long Boret
263
,
267
,
271
‘Long Live the Victory of People’s War!’
159
–60
Long Nârin
314
–15,
330
,
433
,
434
Long Vísalo
315
,
316
,
453
Loth (Pol Pot’s father)
15
,
18
Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat, Saigon
45
Lycée Sisowath, Phnom Penh
42
–3,
52
,
83
and Pol Pot
28
,
36
,
42
–4,
65
political stirrings
30
–2,
37
student mentality at
34
,
58
and Ieng Sary
36
,
51
and Khieu Ponnary
68
,
123
and Keng Vannsak
89
,
107
–8
as communist recruiting ground
123
Lycée Yukanthor, Phnom Penh
253
McClintock, Robert
109
MacDonald, Malcolm
92
Madagascar
69
,
352
Mahathir Mohamad
391
Maison d’Indochine, Paris
49
Mak Ben
434
malaria
172
,
319
,
349
,
353
,
411
Malay
406
,
436
,
440
Malaysia
7
,
8
,
24
,
342
,
391
,
421
Mam Nay
364
,
436
Mân
171
–2,
176
,
212
Manac’h, Etienne
198
Mang
168
,
172
,
173
,
174
,
175
Mao Zedong
47
,
147
–9,
170
,
192
,
317
,
445
meets Khieu Samphân
5
,
329
sinifies Marxism-Leninism
41
,
150
On New Democracy
64
,
70
–72,
148
and Keo Meas
100
and Pol Pot
148
,
298
–300
portrait kept by Khmer monks
154
opposes Paris peace talks
197
advocates manual labour
235
and the People’s Liberation Army
304
likens the peasantry to a blank sheet of paper
309
memorial meeting addressed by Pol Pot
340
,
361
meets Le Duan (1975)
373
Maoism
13
Marx, Karl:
Collected Works
61
Marx, Karl and Engels, Frederick:
Communist Manifesto
38
,
59
,
64
Marxism
55
,
98
,
135
,
342
and Khmer students
38
,
63
,
74
,
154
and national culture
65
,
71
,
97
–8,
343
and Pol Pot
66
,
147
–8,
192
,
300
,
307
,
323
,
417
Matsui, Victor
128
Mayaguez,
SS
296
–7
Mazeyrac, Robert
187
Meak, Lady (Pol Pot’s cousin)
17
,
27
Meakk
256
,
260
,
306
Meas (Pol Pot’s wife)
422
,
423
,
450
Memot
171
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
48
,
71
Mey Mak
453
joins Khmers Rouges
220
–1
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