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Son Ngoc Thanh 🇰🇭

សឺង ង៉ុកថាញ់ (Known as "Son Ngoc Thanh")
Prime Minister of Cambodia (1945, 1972), Founder of Nagaravatta, Leader of Khmer Serei
Born 1908-12-07 🇰🇭 Tra Vinh, Cochinchina, Historical Southeast Asia
Passed Away 1977-08-08 Chi Hoa Prison, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lifespan 68 years old
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"A people that does not possess its own independent voice and press is a people living in chains."

Archival Overview

Pioneering anti-colonial nationalist and Prime Minister who founded 'Nagaravatta', the first Khmer-language newspaper, organized the 1942 Umbrella Demonstration, and led the Khmer Serei resistance.

Biographical Record

Son Ngoc Thanh was born on December 7, 1908, in Tra Vinh to a Khmer Krom family. Educated in law in Montpellier and Paris, Thanh founded the influential journal Nagaravatta in 1936, awakening modern Cambodian political consciousness against French colonial dominance.

In July 1942, Thanh organized the historic 'Umbrella Demonstration' of Buddhist monks in Phnom Penh protesting the arrest of monk Hem Chieu. Serving briefly as Prime Minister in 1945, Thanh later operated the armed anti-Sihanouk and anti-communist Khmer Serei movement from the Thai border. Following the communist victory in Vietnam in 1975, he was arrested and died in Chi Hoa Prison in Saigon in 1977.

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Final Resting Place

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Chi Hoa Prison Cemetery
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
GPS: 10.7700, 106.6600
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