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Tou Samouth
Cambodian politician (1915–1962)
In this Cambodian name, the surname is Tou.
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In accordance with Cambodian custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Samouth.
Tou Samouth (Khmer: ទូ សាមុត; c. 1915 – 20 July 1962), also known as Achar Sok (អាចារ្យសុក), was a Cambodian politician.
One of the two founding members of the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP), the other being Son Ngoc Minh, and head of its more moderate faction. He is mainly remembered for mentoring Saloth Sar, who would later change his name to Pol Pot.
Career in the Khmer resistance
Samouth was a Khmer Krom who was born and raised in Cochinchina (in the Southern part of Vietnam).[2] Samouth was trained as a Buddhistmonk in his youth, and by World War II, he was professor of Pali at Unnalom Monastery in Phnom Penh.
In 1945, an American air raid directed against Japanese military targets struck the Monastery, causing several deaths. Samouth was so f