General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea | |
|---|---|
| អគ្គលេខាធិការគណៈកម្មាធិការមជ្ឈិមបក្សកុម្មុយនិស្តកម្ពុជា | |
 Emblem of the Communist Party of Kampuchea | |
 Banner of the Communist Party of Kampuchea | |
| Central Committee of the Communist Party | |
| Type | Party leader |
| Member of | Politburo Secretariat |
| Seat | Phnom Penh |
| Appointer | Central Committee |
| Formation | 30 September 1960 |
| First holder | Tou Samouth |
| Final holder | Pol Pot |
| Abolished | 6 December 1981 |
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Khmer: អគ្គលេខាធិការគណៈកម្មាធិការមជ្ឈិមបក្សកុម្មុយនីស្តកម្ពុជា) was the highest office in the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK).[1] The General Secretary was elected at plenary sessions of the party's Central Committee, and chaired the Secretariat and Politburo. The office was abolished when the CPK dissolved in 1981, two years after being removed from power in the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.
General secretaries
| No. |
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
In office | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Duration | ||||
| 1 | 
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Tou Samouth ទូ សាមុត (1915–1962) |
30 September 1960 | 20 July 1962 | 1 year, 293 days | Inaugural officeholder; disappeared under disputed circumstances in July 1962. |
| 2 | 
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Pol Pot ប៉ុល ពត (1925–1998) |
22 February 1963 | 6 December 1981 | 18 years, 287 days | Elected in February 1963, maintained post until the dissolution in 1981. Under his leadership, the party's guerrilla branch, Khmer Rouge, succeeded in overthrowing US-backed military government of Lon Nol, and on 17 April 1975, established Democratic Kampuchea, an agrarian socialist dictatorship. |
See also
References
- ^ "A Delicate History". The Cambodia Daily. 23–24 March 2002. Archived from the original on 13 August 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2011.