Son Ngoc Minh
| Son Ngoc Minh | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1920 Tra Vinh, Cochinchina, French Indochina |
| Died | 22 December 1972 (aged 52) Beijing, China |
| Other names | Achar Mean Phạm Văn Hua |
| Citizenship | Cambodia, Vietnam |
| Known for | Co-founder of the Communist Party of Kampuchea |
| Political party | Communist Party of Kampuchea |
Sơn Ngọc Minh (1920–1972), also known as Achar Mean, was a Cambodian communist politician whose first notable career achievement was in 1950 when he was appointed the head of provisional revolutionary government of the United Issarak Front organized at Hong Dan. Among his Vietnamese friends, he was known as Phạm Văn Hua.
Son Ngoc Minh was born in 1920 at Trà Vinh Province (present-day Vietnam) during the French colonial period to an ethnic Khmer father and a Vietnamese mother. He became a Buddhist lay preacher (Achar). During the Indochina War, he was recruited by Vietnamese communists (Viet Minh) to serve as President of a newly formed Cambodian People's Liberation Committee (CPLC) in Battambang. Minh had been born in a Khmer district of southern Vietnam of mixed Khmer-Vietnamese parentage, which meant he was the nearest the Vietnamese had to an authentic Khmer revolutionary. His nom de guerre was intended to capitalise on the popularity of Sihanouk's banished rival, Son Ngoc Thanh, then still languishing in exile in France.
Son Ngoc Minh was the leader of the first nationwide congress of the leftist Khmer Issarak groups, which founded the United Issarak Front. In 1950, he formally declared Cambodia's independence after claiming that the UIF controlled one third of the country. Along with Tou Samouth, Minh founded the Khmer People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) in August 1951. After the Geneva Agreements and the end of the First Indochina war, Son Ngoc Minh and many Khmer Issarak officials left Cambodia for North Vietnam.
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