Vorn Vet
វ៉ន វេត
Deputy Prime Minister of the Economy
In office
1975–1978
Personal details
Born
Sok Thuok (សុក ធួក)

1929
French Indochina
Died1978(1978-00-00) (aged 48–49)
Democratic Kampuchea

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Vorn Vet (Khmer: វ៉ន វេត; 1929–1978) born Sok Thuok (សុក ធួក),[1] was a Cambodian politician who served as deputy prime minister for the economy of Democratic Kampuchea. He was responsible for appointing Kang Kek Iew to his position as head of Special Security.[2] He was murdered at the S-21 security camp in 1978.

References

  1. ^ Kiernan, Ben (October 2008). The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300142990.
  2. ^ Paul Robert Bartrop: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, 2012, ISBN 978-0-313-38678-7, S. 326.
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