Last and longest in office Pol Pot 22 February 1963 – 6 December 1981
Central Committee of the Communist Party
Type
Party leader
Member of
Politburo Secretariat
Seat
Phnom Penh
Appointer
Central Committee
Formation
30 September 1960; 63 years ago (1960-09-30)
First holder
Tou Samouth
Final holder
Pol Pot
Abolished
6 December 1981; 42 years ago (1981-12-06)
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Khmer: អគ្គលេខាធិការគណៈកម្មាធិការមជ្ឈិមបក្សកុម្មុយនីស្តកម្ពុជា) was the highest office in the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK).[1] The General Secretary was elected at plenary sessions of the party's Central Committee, and chaired the Secretariat and Politburo. The office was abolished when the CPK dissolved in 1981, two years after being removed from power in the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.
^"A Delicate History". The Cambodia Daily. 23–24 March 2002. Archived from the original on 13 August 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
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