In Tam

In Tam ( Khmer : * អ៊ិ ន តាំ 22. September 1922 in Prek Kak district Stueng Trang, Kampong Cham province , French Indochina ; † 1. April 2006 in Chandler , Arizona ) was a Cambodian politician of the Democratic Party (ក្រុម ប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ) who was Prime Minister of Cambodia in 1973 .

Life

In 1964 Tam became Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Prime Minister Norodom Kantol and held this office until 1966. In 1968 he was temporarily Agriculture Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Penn Nouth . He was a member of the National Assembly (រដ្ឋសភា ជាតិ កម្ពុជា) between 1966 and 1972 and served as its president in 1970. He was one of the leading figures in the coup of March 18, 1970, which led to the overthrow of King Norodom Sihanouk . In the presidential election on June 4, 1972, he ran for the office of president . He achieved 24 percent of the vote, but was defeated by Lon Nol .

On May 6, 1973, In Tam was finally appointed Prime Minister by President Lon Nol as successor to Hang Thun Hak and held this office until December 9, 1973, when Long Boret became the new Prime Minister. At the same time he took over the office of Minister of the Interior in his government.

One day after the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975 , he fled his farm in Poipet to Thailand on April 18, 1975 , where he tried unsuccessfully to build a counterrevolutionary force along the border. However, these efforts were stopped by the Thai authorities, who then expelled him to France in 1975, where he lived in Paris . In 1976 he went to the USA , which granted him political asylum. In Tam returned to Cambodia several times in the following years and was one of the founding members and leading personalities of the National United Front for an independent, neutral, peaceful and cooperative Cambodia FUNCINPEC (គណបក្សហ៊្វុនស៊ិនប៉ិច) by Norodom Sihanouk. This was founded in 1981 to fight against the government of the Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary People's Party of the Khmer, which was set up by Vietnam after the fall of the Khmer Rouge government in 1979 .

In Tam ran for the Democratic Party in the 1993 election organized by the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), but did not win a seat in the National Assembly. In March 1997, his party signed a cooperation agreement with Prime Minister Hun Sen 's Cambodian People's Party (គណបក្សប្រជាជន កម្ពុជា), which emerged from the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party .

Web links

Entry in Rulers.org
Harris M. Lentz: Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2 , p. 137
David P. Chandler : The Tragedy of Cambodian History. Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945. Yale University Press, New Haven (CT) 1991, ISBN 978-0-300-05752-2 , p. 133 and a.
Marie Alexandrine Martin: Cambodia. A Shattered Society. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles / London 1994, ISBN 978-0-520-07052-3 , p. 112 and a.
Susan E. Cook (Ed.): Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda. New Perspectives. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick / London 2004, ISBN 978-1-4128-2447-7 , p. 78 and a.
Justin Corfield: The History of Cambodia (= The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations ). Greenwood Press / ABC-CLIO , Santa Barbara / Denver / Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-313-35723-7 , p. 138 and a.
Kenton Clymer: The United States and Cambodia, 1969-2000. A troubled relationship. Routledge, London / New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-134-34156-6

Individual evidence

↑ Karl D. Jackson (Ed.): Cambodia, 1975-1978: Rendezvous with Death. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2014, ISBN 978-0-691-02541-4 , p. 30 and a.
↑ Sorpong Peou: Intervention & Change in Cambodia. Towards Democracy? Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 2000, ISBN 978-981-230-042-3 .
↑ Cambodia. Prime ministers. Rulers.org.
^ John V. Da Graça: Heads of State and Government. Macmillan, London 1985, ISBN 978-1-349-07999-5 , p. 120.
^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, Christof Hartmann: Elections in Asia and the Pacific. A data handbook. Vol. II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-924959-6 , pp. 77 f.
↑ Ben Kiernan: The Pol Pot Regime. Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. 2nd Edition. Yale University Press, New Haven (CT) 2002, ISBN 978-0-300-09649-1 .
↑ Cambodia. PediaPress, p. 176.

personal data
SURNAME	In Tam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	អ៊ិ ន តាំ (Khmer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Cambodian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 22, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prek Kak, Stueng Trang District, Kampong Cham Province , Cambodia
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 2006
Place of death	Chandler , Arizona

[1] Karl D. Jackson (Ed.): Cambodia, 1975-1978: Rendezvous with Death. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2014, ISBN 978-0-691-02541-4 , p. 30 and a.

[2] Sorpong Peou: Intervention & Change in Cambodia. Towards Democracy? Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 2000, ISBN 978-981-230-042-3 .

[3] Cambodia. Prime ministers. Rulers.org.

[4] John V. Da Graça: Heads of State and Government. Macmillan, London 1985, ISBN 978-1-349-07999-5 , p. 120.

[5] Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, Christof Hartmann: Elections in Asia and the Pacific. A data handbook. Vol. II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-924959-6 , pp. 77 f.

[6] Ben Kiernan: The Pol Pot Regime. Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. 2nd Edition. Yale University Press, New Haven (CT) 2002, ISBN 978-0-300-09649-1 .

[7] Cambodia. PediaPress, p. 176.