Um Neng, alias Vy, was a

Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...

n communist politician. In the early 1960s, he was a leading figure in the

Pracheachon Group The Krom Pracheachon ( ; "People's Group"), often referred to simply as Pracheachon, was a Cambodian political party that contested in parliamentary elections in 1955 Cambodian general election, 1955, 1958 Cambodian general election, 1958 and 19 ...

. At the 1971 congress of the

Communist Party of Kampuchea The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), also known as the Khmer Communist Party,
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, Um Neng was included in the Central Committee of the party. In 1974 Um Neng became the Deputy Zone Secretary of the CPK in the North-Eastern Zone. Um Neng died in 1978. Some sources claim he committed suicide after being purged, whereas Kiernan (1985) claims he was executed.[KRT] Khmer Rouge Trial Portal
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Um, Neng Year of birth missing 1978 deaths Pracheachon politicians Communist Party of Kampuchea politicians