Sin Pin Sen21 October 2008
By Ung Chamroeun
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
On the very same day, Monday 20 October, two CPP members died of natural causes.
Sin Pin Sen, secretary of state at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) and four-star general, died on Monday evening at the Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh, following a stomach puncture. Under the name of Sin Sen, he was a former defector from the CPP to Funcinpec in the 90s, he supported Prince Chakrapong in 1994 in an aborted coup d’état attempt. Jailed for two years, he was freed by a royal pardon. He returned to the CPP since he was freed and he had since become a secretary of state at the MoI, his rank was that of a four-star general. According to his family, he visited Vietnam on several occasions for medical consultations from stomach pain.
On the same day, in Pailin, Sam San, a CPP MP elected during the latest elections, died from high blood pressure problems. According to those closed to him, he was found in coma after he hit his car on the fence of his house. Sam San died shortly after he was transferred to the hospital.
Sin Pin Sen, secretary of state at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) and four-star general, died on Monday evening at the Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh, following a stomach puncture. Under the name of Sin Sen, he was a former defector from the CPP to Funcinpec in the 90s, he supported Prince Chakrapong in 1994 in an aborted coup d’état attempt. Jailed for two years, he was freed by a royal pardon. He returned to the CPP since he was freed and he had since become a secretary of state at the MoI, his rank was that of a four-star general. According to his family, he visited Vietnam on several occasions for medical consultations from stomach pain.
On the same day, in Pailin, Sam San, a CPP MP elected during the latest elections, died from high blood pressure problems. According to those closed to him, he was found in coma after he hit his car on the fence of his house. Sam San died shortly after he was transferred to the hospital.
