Khieu Samphan Biography

Hou Yuon and Khieu Samphan help establish a new group, the Khmer Students Union,inside, the group was still run by the Cercle Marxiste

The doctoral dissertations written by Hou Yuon and Khieu Samphan express basic themes that were later to become the cornerstones of the policy adopted by Democratic Kampuchea. Hou Yuon and Khieu Samphan help establish a new group, the Khmer Students Union,inside, the group was still run by the Cercle Marxiste

The major argument in Khieu Samphans 1959 thesis, Kampucheas Economy and Industrial Development, was that the country had to become self-reliant and end its economic dependency on the developed world. Khieu Samphan returned from Paris in 1959, taught as a member of the law faculty of the University of Phnom Penh, and started a left-wing, French-language publication, LObservateur

Khieu Samphan returned from Paris in 1959, taught as a member of the law faculty of the University of Phnom Penh, and started a left-wing, French-language publication, LObservateur

The Government closes the paper, and Sihanouks police publicly humiliate Khieu by beating, undressing and photographing him in public

Appointed Prime Minister of Kampuchea

Anew constitution comes into effect in Democratic Kampuchea

CPK Central Committee appoints Khieu Samphan as President of the State Presidium

People's Representative Assembly confirms Khieu Samphan as head of state

Democratic Kampuchea government announced with Khieu Samphan as head of state

Khieu Samphan begins office as President of the State Presidium

State Presidium becomes the formal head of state institution

Khieu Samphan loses state authority as Phnom Penh falls to Vietnamese-backed forces