Archive of FULRO Colonel Kosem to Shed New Light on Insurgency
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Archive of FULRO Colonel Kosem to Shed New Light on Insurgency
By Aun Chhengpor
Les Kosem was involved in the now-defunct United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races, better known by its acronym, FULRO.
The man was Les Kosem, born an ethnic Cham in the 1920s, who later rose to become one of Cambodia’s highest-ranking generals during the Second Indochina War.
His complicated relationship with the resistance movements of the highland peoples of Vietnam, the Cham in Cambodia and Khmer in the Mekong region, made him one of the most controversial of Cambodia’s decorated military leaders over the years leading up to the Khmer Rouge takeover in 1975.
A U.S. State Department cable, leaked in 2013 by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, reveals Kosem’s prominent role in an incomplete effort to avoid the anticipated massacres of the Cham during the Khmer Rouge’s takeover by sending them to Muslim-majority countries.
Full article https://www.voacambodia.com/a/archive-o ... 90161.html
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