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Biography of Mr. Sarin Chhak

Plenipotentiary Minister (Rank 2), General-Secratry of the Foreign Minister.

Born January 2, 1922 in Phnom Penh, son of Mr. Sarin and Mrs. Sann. Maried to Miss
Koy Vann Sinn. Children: V, V, C, C.

Bachelor Degree in Law, Former student of the Cambodian Administration School and
the Faculty of Law in Phnom Penh.

Career: Collector, Administrative Chief, Chauvaysrok, Secretray-General of the Phnom
Penh Municipality, Office Director.

Honor: Monisaraphon Officer, Knight of the Royal Order of Cambodia, National
Defense Medal.

Private address: 113 Trasak Paem Rd., Phnom Penh.

- From Les Personalits du Cambodge 1963 Edition


Mr. Sarin Chhak whose real name is Khin Kaing, was born in the village of Krangsla,
district of Prey Kabbas, province of Takeo. He was born on J anuary 2, 1922 to Mr. Khin
and Mrs. Chhay Lak who are farmers.

During the French colonial period, because he was not able to attend school early on,
when his parents decided to put him in school, due to his advanced age, he was not able
to do so unless he changed his birth certificate. Thus, he was forced to adopt a new
identity, under the new name of Sarin Chhak, in order to attend school.

He studied law in Cambodia, and obtained his Doctoral Degree in Economic Law in
France in 1966. For his doctoral degree thesis, he selected the Cambodias Borders
issues as the topic of his research. To fulfill the requirement of his doctoral degree, he
wrote his thesis (in French) which included the following four volumes:

1- The Khmer-Thai border,
2- The stabilization of the border. The collaboration between France and Thailand.
1902-1939,
3- The new questioning of the borders, and
4- The delineation of the Cambodian border with Laos and South Vietnam.

The book you are currently holding in your hand constitutes a portion of his doctoral
thesis above.

Prior to March 18, 1970, Mr. Sarin Chhak acted as Ambassador of the Kingdom of
Cambodia attached to Egypt. He was then stationed in Cairo. Following the removal from
power of Prince Sihanouk, Mr. Sarin Chhak decided to follow the latter to Peking where
he eventually became the Foreign Minister of the Royal Government of National Union
of Cambodia (under the French acronym of GRUNC) under the leadership of Prince
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Sihanouk. Following the Khmer Rouge victory in 1975, Mr. Sarin Chhak, his wife, and a
number of his children decided to return back to Cambodia. Since then not much
information was available regarding his whereabouts. It was not until the end of 1978,
when the Vietnamese forces invaded Cambodia and routed the Khmer Rouge regime out
of Phnom Penh, that several people claimed to have seen him and his wife in Phnom
Penh. Nevertheless, following the airlift of Prince Sihanouk from Phnom Penh prior to
the arrival of the invading Vietnamese force, Mr. Sarin Chhak and his wife disappeared
again. Finally, his family learned that he was captured by the occupying Vietnamese
forces. Because of his involvement on border issues related to Vietnam, it appeared that
after his capture, Mr. Sarin Chhak was imprisoned in Vietnam where he and his wife
found their death.

We take this occasion to honor the memory of Mr. Sarin Chhak, and to thank him for
leaving the legacy of his books and thesis detailing the encroachments of our neighbors
on the Cambodian territorial integrity encroachments never abated even to these days.

May 2005.