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| Sim Var (R) during his visit to Toulouse (France) in 1976 |
AP
Sim Var, founder of the Cambodian Democratic Party and a former Prime Minister, has died in Paris, according to a statement issued on Saturday. He was 85 years old.
The statement, issued by the Movement for the Support of Khmer Liberty, did not give the date of his death or any other details.
Mr. Sim, who had lived in Paris since the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia in 1975, served in several ministerial posts under Prince Norodom Sihanouk after Cambodia's independence in 1954. In 1957, he led Cambodia's Council of Ministers, but his Government fell the next year over economic issues.
At the time that the Khmer Rouge began their violent four-year rule, Mr. Sim was serving as Ambassador to Tokyo.
2 comments:
The newspaer Nagara vatta was pro Janpan and anti French colony by 3 figures Pach Chhoeunn and Sim Var and Son Gnoc Thanh.
During World War 2 ( 1439- 1945 ) the newspaper Nagara Vatta was a popular newspapers anti French colony by above figures .
For Khmer younger generation must study the good thing and bad thing about Son Ngoc Thanh movement to liberate our country from French colony as follow:
1. It is good to stand up and fight and freeze ourselves from French colony to free our country from French colony.
2. The bad thing was to liberate our country from French colony Son Ngoc Thanh asked for Janpanese protectorate so it was a matter of liberating the country from French colony into the new Japanese colony because if Japane was not defeated in late 1945 in World War 2 Janpan would continue to occupy Cambodia with Japanese colony.
Note: Son Ngoc Thanh was not odler brother of Son Ngoc Minh ( Achar Mean ) as youn Viet Minh propoganda during Vietnam war.
Sim Var is one of those who fought the French colonial period.
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