General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea

General Secretary of the Central Committee (Khmer: លេខាបក្សកុំមុយនីសកម្ពុជា) was the highest office in the Communist Party of Kampuchea.[1] The General Secretary was elected at plenary sessions of the Party's Central Committee, and chaired the Secretariat and Politburo. The office was abolished when the CPK dissolved in 1981, two years after being removed from power in a counterattack by Vietnamese forces.

Name	Tenure	Notes
Tou Samouth	21 September 1951 – July 1962	Inaugural officeholder; disappeared under disputed circumstances in July 1962.
Saloth Sar (Pol Pot)	22 February 1963 – 6 December 1981	Elected in February 1963, maintained post until the dissolution of the Party in 1981. Under his leadership, the Party's guerrilla branch, Khmer Rouge, succeeding in overthrowing U.S.-backed military dictator Lon Nol, and on April 17, 1975 established Democratic Kampuchea, an agrarian socialist dictatorship.

See also

• Agrarian socialism
• Communist Youth League of Kampuchea
• Party of Democratic Kampuchea

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-08-13. Retrieved 2011-01-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)