Yun Yat

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Yun Yat (* 1937 in Phnom Penh[a] , Cambodia , † June 15, 1997 in Anlong Veng , Cambodia), also known as At , was a Cambodian politician. She was deputy education and youth minister and information minister of the Democratic Kampuchea of the Khmer Rouge . She was the wife of Son Sen , the regime's defense minister. Both of them and their familieswere executedon Pol Pot's orders in 1997.

Life

She met Son Sen as a teacher at the National Pedagogical Institute of Phnom Penh ; the two married on an unknown date. In 1965, a year after he ventured into the jungle, she joined him in Kampong Cham Province . From 1969 she took care of the medical care of the troops around Pol Pot in the jungle with the help of China .

On October 9, 1975, the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea gave her responsibility for education and culture inside and outside the country as the successor to the post of Deputy Minister for Education and Youth Ieng Thirith . She was commissioned to eliminate the country's religions. She also became Minister of Information after Hu Nim's arrest and execution in 1977. In that position, she was in charge of Democratic Kampuchea Radio , a role she continued to do in the 1980s when programs were broadcast from Beijing .

In 1979, after the Vietnamese invasion troops took the capital Phnom Penh, she and her husband fled to an area near the Thai border, where they spent the rest of their lives.

On June 15, 1997, she and Son Sen were murdered on the orders of Pol Pot. The former leader of the Khmer Rouge believed that Son Sen had negotiated his handover to the government in Phnom Penh and therefore ordered him and his entire family to be murdered. The 13 members of the clan, including women and children, were executed and their bodies were run over by trucks.

literature

  • Henri Locard: Pourquoi les Khmers rouges (= Révolutions ). Vendémiaire, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-36358-052-8 .
  • Solomon Kane: Dictionnaire des Khmers rouges. Yun Yat (transl .: François Gerles, foreword by David P. Chandler ). Institut de Recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC), Bangkok 2007, ISBN 978-2-916063-27-0 .

Remarks

[a] The information about their birth varies depending on the source. Solomon Kane writes that she was born into a jewelery family in Phnom Penh in 1934, while Henri Locardmentions1937 as her year of birth and Siem Reap as her place of birth. Locard points out numerous inaccuracies and errors in Kane's work.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kane: Dictionnaire des Khmers rouges. 2007, p. 407.
  2. ↑ Yun Yat. Documentation Center of Cambodia.
  3. ↑ a b Locard: Pourquoi les Khmers rouges. 2013, p. 115.
  4. ^ Locard: Pourquoi les Khmers rouges. 2013, p. 102.
  5. ^ Sylvaine Pasquier: La dernière cavale de Pol Pot. In: L'Express . June 19, 1997.
  6. ^ Henri Locard: Accuracy is of the essence for new Khmer Rouge dictionary. In: Phnom Penh Post . October 1, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Yun, Yat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES At
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cambodian politician, deputy minister for education, youth and information
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1997
Place of death Anlong Veng , Cambodia