He was murdered on 15 June 1997, alongside 13 members of his family, including children, on orders of Pol Pot, who at the time was fighting his last battle to regain control of the Khmer Rouge from Ta Mok. [18]

Pol Pot had grown suspicious of Son Sen and in June 1997 ordered his assassination. Khmer Rouge cadres subsequently killed Sen and 13 of his family members and aides; Pol Pot later stated that he had not sanctioned all of these killings. [395] Ta Mok was concerned that Pol Pot could turn on him too.

The son of a landowning farmer, Saloth Sar was sent at age five or six to live with an elder brother in Phnom Penh, where he was educated in a French curriculum. A mediocre student, he failed the entrance examinations for high school and so instead studied carpentry for a year at a technical school in Phnom Penh.

Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on May 19, 1928, near Anlong Veng, Cambodia, the second son of a successful landowner. Pol Pot's father had political connections at the royal court at the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, some seventy miles from Prek Sbau, the small hamlet in Kompong Thom province where Pol Pot was born.

Jun 14, 1997 · PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Ailing Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, running for his life from defectors and government forces, was reported Friday to have ordered the killing of one of his top commanders,...

Jun 14, 1997 · Son Sen, the Khmer Rouge official who was reported today to have been executed by his leader, Pol Pot, was one of the earliest members of the radical Maoist movement, and one of its most brutal.

Apr 13, 2018 · Ever paranoid, Pol Pot suspected his comrades Son Sen and Ta Mok of making alliances with the Cambodian government. Son Sen and at least 10 of his family members, including children, were shot dead and run over by trucks.

Son Sen (12 June 1930-15 June 1997) was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1974 to 1992 and Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 to 1979. He and his family were purged and murdered on the orders of Pol Pot in 1997.

Aug 2, 1998 · The crisis was resolved by concocting a government in which Hun Sen and the opposition leader, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, son of the Cambodian King, stood as co-premiers, but the new regime was...

Apr 23, 2018 · Pol Pot had one child from his second marriage to Mea Son in 1986. His daughter Sar Patchata, 30, and wife live in Banteay Meanchey province. Through his death Pol Pot escaped justice for his...