The only daughter of deceased Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot is due to be married on Sunday in Banteay Meanchey Province, according to a copy of the wedding invitation.
Sar Patchata is the only daughter of Pol Pot, whose real name was Sar Saloth, and Mea Som. The invitation names the groom as Sy Vicheka.
Ms. Patchata’s stepfather, Tep Khunnal, said his stepdaughter is now 26 years old and that the couple met during their studies in Malaysia.
“My daughter graduated with a master’s degree in English literature in Malaysia and the groom was also studying in Malaysia, so they knew each other while they were studying,” said Mr. Khunnal, who declined to comment further about the wedding.
Pol Pot had no children with his first wife, Khieu Ponnary, and married Mea Som in the mid-1980s after the Khmer Rouge had been toppled by the invading Vietnamese and while holding out as the leader of his guerilla movement along the Thai-Cambodia border.
Ms. Patchata, born Mea Sith, would have been born in the late 1980s. By the time of Pol Pot’s death in 1998 of a reported heart attack, Khmer Rouge forces numbered little more than 1,000 and soon fell apart amid the last spate of defections to the government.
Mr. Khunnal, who was the Khmer Rouge ambassador to the U.N. under Pol Pot, married Mea Som within a year of her husband’s death and later served as Malai district governor.
District police chief Sao Bun said he planned to be among the guests at Sunday’s wedding.
“I was invited to Tep Khunnal’s daughter’s wedding party,” he said. “He is the former Malai district governor, so I hope a lot of people will attend the ceremony.”
In a 2004 interview with The Cambodia Daily, Ms. Patchata said she had fond memories of her father but no ambitions of studying abroad as he had. At the time, then studying in Sisophon town, she said her goal was to return to Malai district to help her mother and stepfather run their rice mill and guesthouse.
Pol Pot’s top surviving henchmen, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, are now on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. A verdict in the first phase of their case, focusing on the 1975 forced evacuation of Phnom Penh, is due in the coming months.
18 comments:
daughter of evil man gets to be somebody [ rich and have job ] while his victims' children are still a nobody [ poor and most without jobs and money ] just like the rest of them in CPP clan.
she still carries his evil genes inside her...
Tep Khunal was to true to his words. He promised Pol Pot at his death bed that he will look after Pol Pot's wife and daughter. Not long after Pol Pot's death, Khunal married Pol Pot's ex-wife, he looked after Pol Pot's daughter well and provided her with the best education.
Yes, it is true that she is smarter than her father because she graduated with a master's degree from overseas, but her father failed his exams repeatedly while studying in France in the 1950s and was sent back home without any qualifications. One of the reasons, beside being dumb, was because he spent too much time reading communist books written by Karl Marx and Lenin and did not have enough time to study for his exams.
13 March 2014 11:35 pm
You need to leave a daughter of Pol Pot alone. All you have to do is need to get rid of CPP which is Pro-Yuon government in Cambodia and criminal Hun Sen. Don't go all over the place. Cambodia is in danger right now because of Hun Sen and his Hanoi masters. Hun Sen is not Khmer anymore because he has committed the crimes against humanity and has been protected by his Vietnamese masters and agents in Cambodia.
Pol Pot is better than Hun Sen because Hun Sen has given Koh Tral island illegally to his Vietnamese bosses in Communist Vietnam and allowed the flow of illegal Yuon/Vietcong immigrants into Cambodian and allowed Vietnamese companies cut and destroy Cambodian forests.
You need to think about it.
Khmer Yeurng
At least Pol Pot proctect Khmer sovereignty and will not allow ah Yuon to control him.
That's why Pol Pot dead. Pol Pot was murdered by his own body guards paid by YOUN puppet.
Ms Patchata, congratulation for your school achievement. Let me wishing you a very successful with the upcoming wedding celebration. I wish I could participate in this event but I can't. Ms Patchata, be brave and be patriotic as your father. Good luck Patchata.
Yc
Pol Pot may not be smart, but he was patriotic, defender of his homeland and free of corruption.
His Anka Leur was systematically infiltrated and commandeered by Hanoi, thus the Killing Fields to make room for Yuon settlers.
so pol pot is now the young khmers ' hero ???? your ancestors who were murdered by the khmer rouge guerrillas must be turning in their graves....there were NO vietnamese troups when the genocide period occurred... i was there my parents and relatives were all killed by the pol pot followers.... vietnamese did not come until an year later.
9:06 am
That's exactly what Hanoi wanted you, me and the world to know. Only Pol Pot was the mass murderer.
Do you your thorough research.
Just a hint, Khmer Vietminhs were not created by the dead Uncle Ho for Khmer interests !
By any means, we never said Pol Pot was a Khmer hero.
We just wanted to compare Pol Pot to Hun Sen, for one thing.
pol-pot a nationalish at lease he protech the country from yuon invader.vietminch created by ho chi minch and they have alot of people that why they made the trape in pol-pot regime and now veitnamese agents everywhere under hun-sen.in the future even sam rainsy elect to be P-M veitcong will place another trape so we have to becarefull.veitnamese alway wanted to swollow cambodia.
Pol Pot may be a killer but he killed Youn while trying to save Khmer. Without Pol Pot there would be no more Khmer. Cambodia would be like Laos. In 1976 Youn invaded Laos and completely overruled the Laos government and turned it into a Communist state.
Without Pol Pot fighting Youn, Cambodia would have been under the Youn occupation. The only obstacle now are the Vietminh. The real Killer, and traitor.
The 3 Stooges.
Ah pot is your hero ah lop pler choy marsy ah chkear sot.
14 March 2014 9:20 pm:
Ah ple is you. I lost 30 family members during Pol Pot regime but I'm not ple like you!
There are many Khmere peolple blamed Pol Pot for all the death during Khmer rouge regime.
However they are praying and expressing gratitude to their own murders.
Ah lop 14 March 2014 9:20 pm, this is not only pler, its ignorance dump and worse than dog.
Hey ah lop do you know…….
Who call people to joint Khmer Rouge go to PREY MA KEE?
Who is in power right now that interfere the Khmer Rouge tribunal court in Cambodia?
Who gave Kosh Tral to Youn?
Why we cannot call ah youn YOUN?
Why so many YOUN illegal immigration in Cambodia? (If I bring in 10 people to live in your house, are you happy? Ah lop!)
Did you ever hear K5 ah lops? Who created that?
Who cut all Khmer people down?
Why all roads in Cambodia only build for the cars and not leaving only space for bicycles or motor cycles while 90% of poor innocent travelers are on bicycles. ( Is this one of the purpose to kill Khmere?)
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Who cut all Khmer trees down?
Why all roads in Cambodia only build for the cars and not leaving any space for bicycles or motor cycles while 90% of poor innocent travelers are on bicycles. ( Is this one of the purpose to kill Khmere?)
May I ask you who kill mear ah eang. Pol pot right. ? Now pol pot is your hero ah ckout.
Khmer, no need to fight among ourselves. We have youns eating dogs and baboons siam killing us left and right. A paot and sen are one in the same, they killed Khmers period.
15 March 2014 5:58 pm. Ah chkout is yourself. If Pol Pot killed you and your mum, we Khmer would be better off.
You still dont get it ah chkout. If without Pol Pot, there would be nomore Cambodia. Like the first commentor said, why do you think Vietnam cares about Cambodia so much?
Did they care about our land or our people? Look into the history of CPP. Ah chkae CPP.
Burn in hell, Pol Pot, his fucking offspring, and everyone who supports them
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