Saom Vansodany (, c. 1947 – c. 1977) or Som Van Sok Dany was a famous

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n actress from the late 1960s until 1975. She was mainly featured and famous for her roles in melodramatic movies such as Thavory Meas Bong and Sovannahong. She married fellow actor,

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before the communist era. Details of her life are relatively unknown and she is believed to have perished from overwork under the Khmer Rouge regime shortly after giving birth to her son, Thorn Tharith.

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* * Gender-Based Violence During the Khmer Rouge Regime Stories of survivors from the Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) Nakagawa Kasumi March 2008 page-26 http://menengage.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Kasumi_GBV_Study_2007.pdf Cambodian film actresses 20th-century Cambodian actresses Year of birth missing People who died in the Cambodian genocide Deaths in childbirth {{Cambodia-actor-stub