Khieu Samphan (born July 27 1931) was the president of the state presidium of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) from 1976 until 1979. As such, he served as the country's head of state and was one of the most powerful officials in the Khmer Rouge movement, though Pol Pot was the group's true political leader and held the most extensive power. He is of Chinese-Khmer ancestry. A prominent member of the circle of leftist Khmer intellectuals studying in Paris in the 1950s, … Wikipedia
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