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searchaux" style="display:none">Cambodian politician and soldier</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">In this <a href="/wiki/Cambodian_name" title="Cambodian name">Cambodian name</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Surname" title="Surname">surname</a> is <i> Lon</i>. In accordance with Cambodian custom, this person should be referred to by the <a href="/wiki/Given_name" title="Given name">given name</a>, <i>Non</i>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Lon Non</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"><span title="Khmer-language text"><span lang="km">លន់ ណុន</span></span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Lon_Non_pic.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2c/Lon_Non_pic.jpg/220px-Lon_Non_pic.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Lon_Non_pic.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="230" data-file-height="312" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Interior_(Cambodia)" title="Ministry of Interior (Cambodia)">Minister of Interior</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1970–1973</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cheng_Heng" title="Cheng Heng">Cheng Heng</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lon_Nol" title="Lon Nol">Lon Nol</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lon_Nol" title="Lon Nol">Lon Nol</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sisowath_Sirik_Matak" title="Sisowath Sirik Matak">Sisowath Sirik Matak</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Son_Ngoc_Thanh" title="Son Ngoc Thanh">Son Ngoc Thanh</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Hang_Thun_Hak" title="Hang Thun Hak">Hang Thun Hak</a><br /><a href="/wiki/In_Tam" title="In Tam">In Tam</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Ambassador of Cambodia at large</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1973–1974</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Long_Boret" title="Long Boret">Long Boret</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Les_Kosem" title="Les Kosem">Les Kosem</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1930-04-18</span>)</span>April 18, 1930<br /><a href="/wiki/Phnom_Penh" title="Phnom Penh">Phnom Penh</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_protectorate_of_Cambodia" title="French protectorate of Cambodia">Cambodia</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_Indochina" title="French Indochina">French Indochina</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">April 17, 1975<span style="display:none">(1975-04-17)</span> (aged 44)<br /><a href="/wiki/Phnom_Penh" title="Phnom Penh">Phnom Penh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Kampuchea" title="Democratic Kampuchea">Kampuchea</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cause of death</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Execution" class="mw-redirect" title="Execution">Execution</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Social_Republican_Party" title="Social Republican Party">Social Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lon_Nol" title="Lon Nol">Lon Nol</a> (brother)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">Politician</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soldier" title="Soldier">soldier</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="640" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Cambodia_(1953%E2%80%931970)" title="Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970)">Kingdom of Cambodia</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Flag_of_the_Khmer_Republic.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Khmer_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Flag_of_the_Khmer_Republic.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Khmer_Republic.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Flag_of_the_Khmer_Republic.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Khmer_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Khmer_Republic" title="Khmer Republic">Khmer Republic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Cambodian_Army" title="Royal Cambodian Army">Royal Khmer Army</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Khmer_National_Armed_Forces" title="Khmer National Armed Forces">Khmer National Armed Forces</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1950–1975</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Brigadier_general" title="Brigadier general">Brigadier general</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles/wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/First_Indochina_War" title="First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Cambodian_Civil_War" title="Cambodian Civil War">Cambodian Civil War</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Lon Non</b> (<a href="/wiki/Khmer_language" title="Khmer language">Khmer</a>: <span lang="km">លន់ ណុន</span>; 18 April 1930 – 17 April 1975) was a <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodian</a> military officer and politician who rose to prominence during the <a href="/wiki/Cambodian_Civil_War" title="Cambodian Civil War">Cambodian Civil War</a> (1967–1975) and the <a href="/wiki/Khmer_Republic" title="Khmer Republic">Khmer Republic</a> (1970–1975). </p><p>Non was the younger brother of Prime Minister (and later President) <a href="/wiki/Lon_Nol" title="Lon Nol">Lon Nol</a>. As a result, he was often referred to as "Little Brother" (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Petit frère</i>) in political circles, in which he was regarded as a somewhat Machiavellian figure who was determined to protect his brother's monopoly on power. Non was executed by members of the <a href="/wiki/Khmer_Rouge" title="Khmer Rouge">Khmer Rouge</a> after the Communist seizure of <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Phnom_Penh" title="Fall of Phnom Penh">Phnom Penh</a> in April 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-Sakou_2012_131_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sakou_2012_131-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lon_Non&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Non was born in the early 20's,<sup id="cite_ref-Sakou_2012_131_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sakou_2012_131-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the son of Lon Hin, a Cambodian district administrator from <a href="/wiki/Prey_Veng_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Prey Veng Province">Prey Veng</a>. He attended <i>Collège Norodom Sihanouk</i> in <a href="/wiki/Kampong_Cham_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Kampong Cham City">Kampong Cham</a>; his best friend there was a youth called <a href="/wiki/Saloth_Sar" class="mw-redirect" title="Saloth Sar">Saloth Sar</a>, who would later become better known as <a href="/wiki/Pol_Pot" title="Pol Pot">Pol Pot</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-marlay177_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marlay177-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was first trained as an officer in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Gendarmerie_of_Cambodia" title="Royal Gendarmerie of Cambodia">Royal Gendarmerie of Cambodia</a>. Later, sponsored by his successful younger brother, <a href="/wiki/Lon_Nol" title="Lon Nol">Lon Nol</a>, he completed his education in <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, where he studied <a href="/wiki/Criminology" title="Criminology">criminology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-corfield111_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corfield111-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lon_Non&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Khmer_Republic" title="Khmer Republic">Khmer Republic</a></div> <p>Under the administration of Prince <a href="/wiki/Norodom_Sihanouk" title="Norodom Sihanouk">Norodom Sihanouk</a>, Non served as an officer of the military police, reaching the rank of Major. Subsequent to the <a href="/wiki/Cambodian_coup_of_1970" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambodian coup of 1970">Cambodian coup of 1970</a>, in which Sihanouk was ousted by Lon Nol, then serving as Prime Minister, Non was rapidly promoted. Despite a lack of substantial military experience, he was soon given the rank of Colonel, and then Brigadier general: the 'elite', American-trained militias of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom and <a href="/wiki/Khmer_Serei" title="Khmer Serei">Khmer Serei</a>, flown into the country after the coup, were placed under his command. The massacres of Vietnamese residents of Cambodia in the period subsequent to the coup are thought to have been carried out by the military under Lon Non's direction.<sup id="cite_ref-kamm79_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kamm79-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_activity">Political activity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lon_Non&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political activity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Non's political motivation seems to have partly derived from an unswerving loyalty to his brother, and his machinations against the coup's other main figure, Prince <a href="/wiki/Sisowath_Sirik_Matak" title="Sisowath Sirik Matak">Sisowath Sirik Matak</a>, caused serious divisions in the Cambodian administration. While Lon Nol was in poor health during 1970 and 1971, his brother and the army made it clear they would accept no other leader and made efforts to sideline Sirik Matak, who was given the title of "Prime Minister-Delegate". In 1971 Non raised his political profile by directing a moderately successful military operation, <i>Akineth Moha Padevuth</i>, driving Communist guerrillas from villages around National Route 3 (Akineth was a wizard and hermit in the <i><a href="/wiki/Reamker" title="Reamker">Reamker</a></i> on whom Non seems to have modelled himself).<sup id="cite_ref-corfield113_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corfield113-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By early 1972 Lon Non finally managed to drive Sirik Matak from the government after organising groups of students to demonstrate against him.<sup id="cite_ref-kiernan347_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kiernan347-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When, later in 1972, presidential elections were held, Non boasted that the monolithic vote of the <a href="/wiki/Khmer_National_Armed_Forces" title="Khmer National Armed Forces">Khmer National Armed Forces</a> had secured his brother's inevitable victory. Non, who was ultimately to become Minister of the Interior, also created the <i>Sangkum Sathéaranak Râth</i> (the <a href="/wiki/Social_Republican_Party" title="Social Republican Party">Socio-Republican Party</a>, PSR) as a political organisation to represent the interests of Lon Nol and the officer corps. The two rival parties, <a href="/wiki/In_Tam" title="In Tam">In Tam</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Cambodia)" title="Democratic Party (Cambodia)">Democratic Party</a> and Sirik Matak's <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(Cambodia)" title="Republican Party (Cambodia)">Republicans</a>, refused to contest the elections to the National Assembly in September 1972, leading to the PSR's total dominance. </p><p>Non's faction of the party was referred to as the <i>Dangkor</i> group, distinguishing it from the rival <i>Dangrek</i> faction centred on veteran radical <a href="/wiki/Son_Ngoc_Thanh" title="Son Ngoc Thanh">Son Ngoc Thanh</a> and academic <a href="/wiki/Hang_Thun_Hak" title="Hang Thun Hak">Hang Thun Hak</a>. In the ongoing <a href="/wiki/Cambodian_Civil_War" title="Cambodian Civil War">Cambodian Civil War</a>, Non appears to have planned to circumvent the influence of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a> in the region by seeking help from the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> in achieving a peace settlement.<sup id="cite_ref-corfield78_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corfield78-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Allegations_of_corruption">Allegations of corruption</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lon_Non&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Allegations of corruption"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Evidence was found linking Non with international <a href="/wiki/Heroin" title="Heroin">heroin</a> traffic, through a <a href="/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a>-organised commando training camp that he headed.<sup id="cite_ref-scott_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scott-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also exploited his control of the army to accrue a large personal fortune by selling its weapons (many of which ended up in the hands of its Khmer Rouge opponents). Non surrounded himself with a coterie of officers who were to have a substantial impact on the political and military conduct of the Republic, such as Lieutenant-Colonels <a href="/wiki/Les_Kosem" title="Les Kosem">Les Kosem</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chhim_Chhuon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chhim Chhuon (page does not exist)">Chhim Chhuon</a> and a former member of the <i><a href="/wiki/Pracheachon" title="Pracheachon">Pracheachon</a></i> socialist party, Major <a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_Yuth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Penn Yuth (page does not exist)">Penn Yuth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-corfield111_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corfield111-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The American government, the main supplier of aid to the Republic, began applying increasing pressure on Lon Nol to reduce his brother's influence, concerned about the latter's corruption, lack of moral scruple (combined with unusual ambition and energy) and his suspected implication in bombing and other attacks on his political rivals. Australian intelligence confirmed that Non had formed an assassination unit, called the "Republican Security Battalion", which used a fleet of yellow Hondas.<sup id="cite_ref-clymer69_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clymer69-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The US suggested a variety of posts to occupy Lon Non's energies, or induce him to get out of the country: in 1973, after Non was eventually forced to leave Cambodia, his wife was caught with <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">$</a>170,000 in US$100 bills at <a href="/wiki/Orly_Airport" title="Orly Airport">Orly Airport</a> in Paris as she was leaving to join her husband in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lon_Non&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Despite a period in America as the Republic's "<a href="/wiki/Ambassador-at-Large" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambassador-at-Large">Ambassador-at-Large</a>", <a href="/wiki/General_officer" title="General officer">General</a> Lon Non returned to Cambodia during 1974 and resumed his political activities: <a href="/wiki/John_Gunther_Dean" title="John Gunther Dean">John Gunther Dean</a>, the US ambassador, soon complained about Non's "frantic maneuvering", and appealed for US government assistance in controlling him.<sup id="cite_ref-jgdean_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jgdean-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He appears to have been responsible for a bizarre last-ditch plot in which a group of students, led by a man named Hem Keth Dara and posing as a faction of the Khmer Rouge (under the title of <i><a href="/wiki/MONATIO" title="MONATIO">Monatio</a></i>, or the 'National Movement') attempted to seize key parts of the city ahead of the actual Communist forces.<sup id="cite_ref-corfield228_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corfield228-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Along with <a href="/wiki/Long_Boret" title="Long Boret">Long Boret</a> he made efforts to broker a cease-fire agreement, despite both having been threatened with execution by the Khmer Rouge. Non remained in the city until it <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Phnom_Penh" title="Fall of Phnom Penh">fell to the Khmer Rouge</a> on April 17, and was detained by their forces at the Information Ministry.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was seen along with a group of officials under guard, looking apparently composed, "impeccably dressed" with a freshly starched uniform and trimmed moustache, and smoking a pipe.<sup id="cite_ref-corfield230_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corfield230-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is possible that he believed that the arrest was being carried out largely for 'effect', and that the Communists wished to work with him in the future. </p><p>Soon after, Koy Thuon, a Khmer Rouge deputy front commander, organized the <i>Committee for Wiping Out Enemies</i> at the Hotel Monorom (<span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Lon_Non&params=11.57_N_104.918_E_"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">11°34′12″N</span> <span class="longitude">104°55′05″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">11.57°N 104.918°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">11.57; 104.918</span></span></span></a></span></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-thuon_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thuon-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its first action was ordering the immediate execution of Lon Non and other leading government figures, who were probably executed on the grounds of the <i>Cercle Sportif</i> in Phnom Penh within hours. A later broadcast by the Communist authorities stated that Non had in fact been beaten to death by a crowd of "enraged" members of the populace, though the truth of this account is unclear. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lon_Non&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Sakou_2012_131-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Sakou_2012_131_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sakou_2012_131_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSakou2012" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Sakou, Samoth (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191030152524/http://iric.gov.kh/hommes-et-histoire-du-cambodge-par-sakou-samoth/"><i>Hommes et Histoire du Cambodge</i></a> (in French). Phnom Penh: Editions Angkor. p. 131. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://iric.gov.kh/hommes-et-histoire-du-cambodge-par-sakou-samoth/">the original</a> on October 30, 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hommes+et+Histoire+du+Cambodge&rft.place=Phnom+Penh&rft.pages=131&rft.pub=Editions+Angkor&rft.date=2012&rft.aulast=Sakou&rft.aufirst=Samoth&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Firic.gov.kh%2Fhommes-et-histoire-du-cambodge-par-sakou-samoth%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALon+Non" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-marlay177-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-marlay177_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marlay, R. and Neher, C. <i>Patriots and tyrants: ten Asian leaders</i>, Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, p.177</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-corfield111-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-corfield111_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corfield111_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Corfield, J. <i>Khmers stand up!: a history of the Cambodian government 1970-1975</i>, 1992, p.111</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-kamm79-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-kamm79_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kamm, H. <i>Cambodia: report from a stricken land</i>, Arcade, 1998, p.79</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-corfield113-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-corfield113_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Corfield, J. <i>Khmers stand up!: a history of the Cambodian government 1970-1975</i>, 1992, p.113</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-kiernan347-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-kiernan347_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kiernan, B. <i>How Pol Pot came to power</i>, Yale UP, 2004, p.347</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-corfield78-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-corfield78_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Corfield, J. <i>History of Cambodia</i>, ABC-CLIO, 2009, p.78</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-scott-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-scott_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scott, P. D. "Opium and Empire", <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://criticalasianstudies.org/assets/files/bcas/v05n02.pdf">Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194813/http://criticalasianstudies.org/assets/files/bcas/v05n02.pdf">Archived</a> 2016-03-03 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, vol 5, 2 (Sep. 1973), 49</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-clymer69-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-clymer69_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clymer, K. J. <i>The United States and Cambodia, 1969-2000: a troubled relationship</i>, Routledge, p.69</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/23/archives/170000-in-cash-on-mrs-lon-non-is-seized-in-paris.html">"$170,000 in Cash On Mrs., Lon Non Is Seized in Paris"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. September 23, 1973<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2009-01-06</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=%24170%2C000+in+Cash+On+Mrs.%2C+Lon+Non+Is+Seized+in+Paris&rft.date=1973-09-23&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1973%2F09%2F23%2Farchives%2F170000-in-cash-on-mrs-lon-non-is-seized-in-paris.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALon+Non" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-jgdean-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-jgdean_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB188/AAD-6.pdf">Lon Non's Plans</a>", declassified teletype from John Gunther Dean, 26 Dec 1974 (Document 1974PHNOM17096)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-corfield228-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-corfield228_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Corfield, 1992, pp.228-229</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFHenry_Kissinger2003" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a> (February 2003). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/endingvietnamwar00kiss/page/529"><i>Ending the Vietnam War : A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War</i></a></span>. <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/endingvietnamwar00kiss/page/529">529</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7432-1532-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7432-1532-9"><bdi>978-0-7432-1532-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ending+the+Vietnam+War+%3A+A+History+of+America%27s+Involvement+in+and+Extrication+from+the+Vietnam+War&rft.pages=529&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=2003-02&rft.isbn=978-0-7432-1532-9&rft.au=Henry+Kissinger&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fendingvietnamwar00kiss%2Fpage%2F529&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALon+Non" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-corfield230-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-corfield230_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Corfield, 1992, p.230</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-thuon-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-thuon_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thuon, Secretary of the Northern Zone and considered to be one of the pro-Vietnamese 'moderates' of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Kampuchea" title="Communist Party of Kampuchea">Communist Party of Kampuchea</a>, was himself to be arrested, tortured and killed at <a href="/wiki/Tuol_Sleng" class="mw-redirect" title="Tuol Sleng">Tuol Sleng</a> in 1977.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lon_Non&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>CIA Cambodia Intelligence Memorandum, <i>The Cambodian Political Situation</i>, 26 March 1973, pp. 1–16. Declassified in Part – Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2004/12/02: CIA-RDP80R01720R000800050006-9. – <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80R01720R000800050006-9.pdf">[1]</a></li> <li>Kenneth Conboy, <i>FANK: A History of the Cambodian Armed Forces, 1970–1975</i>, Equinox Publishing (Asia) Pte Ltd, Djakarta 2011. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789793780863" title="Special:BookSources/9789793780863">9789793780863</a></li> <li>Justin Corfield and Laura Summers, <i>Historical Dictionary of Cambodia</i>, Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries No. 43, Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, and Oxford 2003. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8108-4524-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-8108-4524-5">0-8108-4524-5</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/historicaldictionaryofcambodia">[2]</a></li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=0" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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