NHIEK TIUULONG – Wikipedia
Nhiek tioulong (En Khmer: Frequing, également Orthrography Julum) – Hong Kong ) was a Cambodian politician.
Officer of the Cambodian army, he was also a member of many governments after the country’s independence and notably Prime Minister in 1962.
Close to the Cambodian right, he nevertheless kept his distance from the leaders of the Khmer Republic.
He is also known to be Sam Rainin’s stepfather, the main opponent of Phnom Penh’s current regime.
Nhiek Tioulong was born in Phnom Penh, in a family of mandarins close to the palace. He is the father of Tioulong Saumara, herself wife of Sam Rainin.
After primary studies at the Sisowath college in Phnom Penh, he joined the Lycée Chasseloup Laubat de Saigon where he successfully passed a philosophy baccalaureate.
He entered the administration in 1932, where he climbed the ladder until it became, in 1937, governor of the province of Pouthisat, then, from 1939 to 1944, that of Kompong Cham.
On March 9, 1945, thanks to the Japanese coup against the French colonial administration, he was appointed governor of the city of Phnom Penh.
From August 14 to , he is Minister of National Education in a cabinet led by his Ngoc Thanh.
On the return from the French, it remains, from October 17, 1945 to December 14, 1946, to the government as Minister of Finance of a cabinet chaired by Sisowath Monireth. During this period, he will be one of the dignitaries who will accompany King Norodom Sihanouk in France, from April to June 1946.
On December 7, 1946, he was responsible for supervising the departure of the Thai Battambang, which they had occupied for five years, and had to put the Khmer administration in this sector.
In 1947, he created the “Kanapac Khemara Vothanaka” (Khmer renovation party) close to the right and which participated the same year in the legislative elections but did not collect any siege.
In April 1948, he became delegate of the Cambodian government to the High French Commissioner in Indochina, then, in August of the same year, Cambodia delegate at the High Council of the Union Française in Paris. In September, he was part of the French delegation to the UN, as an advisor.
On November 22, 1949, he was appointed colonel of the royal army Khmer and chief of staff.
He left this position quickly and, from the end of December 1949, he found his post as a delegate with the High French Commissioner, then became a delegate of Cambodia to the Commission for the Application of Franco-Khmer agreements.
In May 1950, he was appointed governor of Battambang with the rank of minister.
The first is January 1951, he returned to the government as Minister of Finance, a position which he would keep until May 14, 1951, when he became Minister of State for Information.
In the 1951 elections, the Khmer renovation party, reinforced by Lon Nol, obtained 2 seats.
In June 1953, when Norodom Sihanouk exiled from Phnom Penh to carry out his crusade for independence, Tioulong Nhiek headed the Royal Information Service, installed in Battambang.
At the end of December 1953, the independence acquired, he was again appointed governor of Phnom Penh and took part in negotiations with the French concerning the last transfers of competence between the colonial administration and the Cambodian government.
On April 7, 1954, he was appointed Minister of State in charge of Foreign Affairs and the Conference (of Geneva), then, on April 18, 1954, he was responsible for national defense, until July 31, 1954. He becomes the first general of the royal army Khmer (the second will be LON NOL, in 1955) and will be the military representative of Cambodia at the Geneva Agreements.
In 1955, he began a career as an ambassador, in Japan first, then, in 1957, in the USSR, Poland and finally in Czechoslovakia.
In 1958 he returned to Cambodia and joined several governments:
- From January 22 to April 29, 1958: Minister of State for Interior, National Security and Information.
- From April 30 to July 10, 1958: Vice-President of the Council, Minister of Planning, Production, Economic Affairs, Public Works, Telecommunications and Tourism.
- From February 18 to June 13, 1959: Vice-President of the Council (with his SANN), Minister of the Interior, Justice, Information, Planning and General Sanitation.
- From June 14, 1959 to April 19, 1960: Vice-president of the Council, Minister of National Education, Planning and Tourism.
- From April 20, 1960 to January 28, 1961: First Vice-President of the Council, Minister of Planning, Tourism, Production, Public Works and Telecommunications.
- From January 29, 1961 to February 12, 1962: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Tourism.
- From February 13 to August 6, 1962: President of the Council.
In October 1962, he was appointed governor of Kirirom.
On November 6, 1962, he became an inspector of the Khmer Royal Armed Forces and Vice-President of the High Council of the Throne.
In 1965, he tried his hand at the cinema and was the main actor in “Apsara”, the first feature film of Prince Norodom Sihanouk.
In October 1966, he briefly replaced Lon Nol (who became Minister) at the head of the army.
In 1969, he withdrew to France and remained in the shadows until the mid-1980s when he became vice-president of the Uni National Front for an independent, neutral, peaceful and cooperative Cambodia (Funcinpec). This party was created by Norodom Sihanouk to fight the new regime set up in Phnom Penh by Vietnamese troops.
He will even direct Funcinpec from 1989 to 1992, in place of Norodom Sihanouk.
The , he is appointed private advisor to the king.
He died in a hospital in Hong Kong .
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