Friday, November 14, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Information from the family of the deceased indicated that the funeral procession for General Hok Lundy will start from Phnom Penh at 7AM on 15 November and the burial ceremony will take place at 3PM at his villa located in Bavet village, Bavet commune, Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province. General Hok Lundy died at the age of 51. He was born in the year of the pig, on 03 February 1957 in Svay Rieng city. His father was a soldier by the name of Hok Nam, and his mother’s name was Mom Aun. He has 3 siblings including an older sister, he is the second child in the family. Following the liberation Vietnamese invasion on 07 January 1979, communist party leaders and the communist state place their confidence in him by providing him with successive positions, starting from a group president in Svay Rieng, he was then nominated as the chairman of the revolutionary committee for Svay Rieng province in 1987. In 1990, he was transferred to become he deputy communist party secretary and president of the people’s committee in Phnom Penh. In January 1994, during the first term of the joint Royal Government, he was nominated as the provincial governor of Svay Rieng, and in September 1994, he was promoted to national police commissioner, a position which he occupied until his death.
