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|goals = Enforce the rule of the Khmer Rouge (failed)

|crimes = Mass [[murder]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Torture]]

|hobby = }}'''Son Sen''' (12 June 1930 – 15 June 1997), alias '''Comrade Khieu''' (សមមិត្តខៀវ), was a Cambodian ~~[[Communist]]~~ politician and soldier. A member of the Central Committee of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]]/Party of Democratic Kampuchea, the [[Khmer Rouge]], from 1974 to 1992, Sen oversaw the Party's security apparatus, including the [[Santebal]] [[secret police]] and the notorious security prison S-21 at Tuol Sleng.

|hobby = }}'''Son Sen''' (12 June 1930 – 15 June 1997), alias '''Comrade Khieu''' (សមមិត្តខៀវ), was a Cambodian communist politician and soldier. A member of the Central Committee of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]]/Party of Democratic Kampuchea, the [[Khmer Rouge]], from 1974 to 1992, Sen oversaw the Party's security apparatus, including the [[Santebal]] [[secret police]] and the notorious security prison S-21 at Tuol Sleng.

Son Sen was responsible for ordering the massacre of more than 100,000 in the Eastern Zone of Cambodia during the last six months of 1978.

Sen was married to Yun Yat, who became the Party's minister of education and information. Along with the rest of his family, he was killed on the orders of [[Pol Pot]] during a 1997 factional split in the Khmer Rouge.

==Biography==

Son Sen was born in the village of Huong Hoa, Trà Vinh Province in southern Vietnam to a minor landowning family. Although the Khmer Institute described Sen as being of "Sino-Vietnamese" descent, Béréziat and others have confirmed that like several other Khmer Rouge leaders he was of Khmer Krom ethnicity. From 1946 he attended a teacher training college in Phnom Penh, and in the 1950s received a scholarship to study in Paris, where he became a member of a Marxist group of Cambodian students centred on Saloth Sar (Pol Pot), [[Ieng Sary]], and Hou Yuon. Along with other members of the group, Sen was influenced by the radical line pursued by the French Communist Party.

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 |goals = Enforce the rule of the Khmer Rouge (failed)
 |crimes = Mass [[murder]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Torture]]
-|hobby = }}'''Son Sen''' (12 June 1930 – 15 June 1997), alias '''Comrade Khieu''' (សមមិត្តខៀវ), was a Cambodian [[Communist]] politician and soldier. A member of the Central Committee of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]]/Party of Democratic Kampuchea, the [[Khmer Rouge]], from 1974 to 1992, Sen oversaw the Party's security apparatus, including the [[Santebal]] [[secret police]] and the notorious security prison S-21 at Tuol Sleng.
+|hobby = }}'''Son Sen''' (12 June 1930 – 15 June 1997), alias '''Comrade Khieu''' (សមមិត្តខៀវ), was a Cambodian communist politician and soldier. A member of the Central Committee of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]]/Party of Democratic Kampuchea, the [[Khmer Rouge]], from 1974 to 1992, Sen oversaw the Party's security apparatus, including the [[Santebal]] [[secret police]] and the notorious security prison S-21 at Tuol Sleng.
 Son Sen was responsible for ordering the massacre of more than 100,000 in the Eastern Zone of Cambodia during the last six months of 1978.
 Sen was married to Yun Yat, who became the Party's minister of education and information. Along with the rest of his family, he was killed on the orders of [[Pol Pot]] during a 1997 factional split in the Khmer Rouge.
 ==Biography==
 Son Sen was born in the village of Huong Hoa, Trà Vinh Province in southern Vietnam to a minor landowning family. Although the Khmer Institute described Sen as being of "Sino-Vietnamese" descent, Béréziat and others have confirmed that like several other Khmer Rouge leaders he was of Khmer Krom ethnicity. From 1946 he attended a teacher training college in Phnom Penh, and in the 1950s received a scholarship to study in Paris, where he became a member of a Marxist group of Cambodian students centred on Saloth Sar (Pol Pot), [[Ieng Sary]], and Hou Yuon. Along with other members of the group, Sen was influenced by the radical line pursued by the French Communist Party.