75
–6,
92
attacks Khmer Serei
77
–8
crisis of morale
102
–3
desertions to Khmers Rouges
206
Royal Palace, Phnom Penh
7
,
24
,
27
,
43
,
214
,
330
,
355
Royal Socialist Khmer Youth
123
Ruos Nhim
456
as Issarak
101
,
115
,
120
,
281
revives movement in Samlaut
139
and Samlaut ‘events’
164
–7
and 1958 uprising
177
arrested and purged
386
–7
Russey Keo Technical School
42
–3
Russia
revolution
38
as an industrial power
71
–2
Sino-Soviet dispute
160
–1,
197
period of ‘War Communism’
291
aid to Vietnam
303
,
373
,
373
–4
19th-c Utopian socialists
343
Friendship Treaty with Vietnam
390
–1,
393
invades Afghanistan
412
Soviet Empire disintegrates
426
S–21
see
Tuol Sleng
S–31
224
–5
S–71
223
–5,
251
Saigon
45
St Louis Post Despatch
393
Sak Sutsakhan
264
Saloth Chhay
childhood
16
,
20
,
22
–3
studies in Phnom Penh
23
,
28
represents Son Ngoc Thanh
86
,
90
edits left-wing journal in dies during evacuation
275
Saloth Nhep
15
,
23
,
28
,
275
Saloth Roeung
17
,
27
,
28
,
49
,
116
,
275
Saloth Sár
see
Pol Pot
Saloth Seng
20
Saloth Sitha
423
,
435
,
450
Saloth Suong
17
,
20
,
23
,
36
,
275
,
427
Sam Rainsy
438
Sam Sary
111
,
117
,
124
–8,
131
,
438
Samlaut
Khmer Viet Minh North-Western Zone HQ
119
1967 peasant uprising
165
–7,
175
,
179
1968 rebellion
173
used as staging area
411
San river
172
,
175
Sangkum Reastr Niyum
110
–12,
128
–9,
132
,
134
,
155
–6,
169
,
183
,
186
Sang’nam
441
Santebal (political police)
223
–4
Sár Kim Lomouth
261
Sarajevo
50
Sarin Chhak
200
,
304
,
336
n
Sarit, Field-Marshal
155
Sartre, Jean-Paul
48
Sau Kouy
144
Saukham Khoy
264
Savangs Vong
58
,
81
,
101
SDECE (French Intelligence)
113
,
367
Sdok Toel
6
–7,
9
,
263
,
265
,
276
,
286
Seamans, Robert
245
SEATO
see
South-East Asian Treaty Organization
Sên river
15
Senegal
352
Shanghai
363
Shawcross, William
411
–12
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia
218
n
Shcherbakov, Ivan
238
Siem Reap
28
,
33
,
35
,
92
,
106
,
175
and Royal Khmer Army
75
–8
and Dap Chhuon
125
–6
anti-government demonstrations in (1963)
142
protesters condemn Lon Nol coup
206
in civil war
216
–19,
229
and ‘mutiny’ against Pol Pot
354
and Vietnamese invasion
396
,
405
,
421
Sien An
52
,
63
,
114
,
367
Siet Chhê
456
listed as subversive
143
n
trained as monk
150
attends
3
rd CPK Congress
225
n
purged
368
,
392
Sieu Heng
456
as Issarak and Khmer Viet Minh
54
–6,
58
,
119
becomes Party leader
115
–16
defects
124
,
135
,
141
,
152
Sihamoni, Prince
334
Sihanouk, Prince and King
see
Norodom Sihanouk
Silver Pagoda
7
–9,
288
,
297
,
306
,
312
Sim Var
110
,
176
,
185
Singapore
342
,
352
,
391
,
416
,
421
Sirik Matak
456
and Sihanouk
106
,
187
,
188
–9,
195
and coup
196
–8,
221
–2
opposes republic
209
sidelined
260
Sisophon
28
Sisowath Entaravong, Prince
38
,
188
Sisowath Essaro, Prince
195
Sisowath Somonopong, Prince
49
‘Six Rules of Party Life’
97
–8
Skoun
10
,
206
,
251
Slansky, Rudolf
69
‘smoke-children’
(kun krak)
19
,
371
Snepp, Frank
287
Snuol
32
,
144
,
377
So Hong
395
,
396
,
397
,
412
So Nem
129
,
134
So Phim
116
,
120
,
281
,
456
–7
founding member of PRPK
55
Eastern Zone military commander
114
,
139
,
175
,
384
member of provisional leadership
115
–16,
135
–6
attends First Congress
138
n
and Pol Pot
177
–8
in civil war
262
denounced as traitor
358
commands Highway
7
Front
374
,
385
surrounded and commits suicide
385
–6,
387
n
Soeung Son Maly
and Pol Pot
49
–50,
82
,
116
–17
and Sam Sary
117
,
124
Sok Knaol
63
,
385
Sok Pheap
412
,
436
–7
Son Ngoc Minh
115
,
150
,
456
background
39
sends Ho Chi Minh birthday greetings
40
heads revolutionary government
54
–6
Khmer Viet Minh leader
58
,
61
,
89
,
393
admits torturing opponents
89
sidelined
97
welcomes Khmer exiles in Vietnam
104
and Pol Pot
158
and Keo Meas
186
–7
dies of stroke
379
Son Ngoc Thanh
154
,
457
and
Nagaravatta
21
,
30
flees to Thailand
30
named Foreign Minister, then Premier
32
in exile
34
,
39
,
42
,
59
,
61
–2
followers flee to Thailand and Vietnam
35
and Pol Pot
35
,
42
,
59
,
65
,
82
,
86
,
89
–90
continued popularity
37
and Sihanouk
62
,
74
–6,
95
,
139
in rebellion
77
–8,
81
–2,
101
US sympathy for
91
,
127
–8
pledges allegiance
106
and Democratic Party
106
–7,
109
and ‘Bangkok Plot’
125
and CIA
127
–8,
131
and Lon Nol
195
,
260
Son Sann
110
,
419
,
421
,
429
Son Sen
436
,
336
,
457
student days in Paris
82
–3
possibly attends CPK First Congress
139
n
joines Central Committee
142
denounced as subversive
143
n
flees to Ta Not
144
in North-Eastern Zone
172
–3
as Chief of Staff
212
,
252
welcomes Sihanouk to ‘liberated zone’
243
and ‘liberation’ of Phnom Penh
262
,
276
,
286
becomes Vice-Premier
305
,
336
n,
358
,
363
and Sihanouk’s resignation
334
responsible for S–21
359
,
364