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- Um_Savuth abstract "Um Savuth (? - 1972) was a Cambodian army officer who came to his greatest prominence during the Cambodian Civil War, where he was responsible for commanding the Khmer National Armed Forces during their disastrous 1971 offensive, Operation Chenla I. The son of a government chauffeur, and the younger brother of politician Um Samuth, Savuth began his career in the Royal Cambodian Army under the regime of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and became a supporter of General Lon Nol after the latter's 1970 coup against Sihanouk.Savuth was largely paralyzed down one side of his body, walked with the aid of a cane, and was, reputedly, continually drunk to numb the pain of his condition. This had come about due to an incident earlier in his career in which he had drunkenly insisted that a subordinate shoot a live cat off his head, stating that it was a direct order when the soldier resisted. The shot missed, and part of Savuth's head was blown away: nevertheless, he continued his military career.Under Sihanouk's regime, Savuth (along with a fellow officer, Les Kosem) was closely involved in the formation of FULRO, a guerrilla resistance movement seeking autonomy for the Degar tribes of Vietnam. When Kosem disagreed with the direction being taken by FULRO's leader, Y-Bham Enuol, he forcibly detained him and placed him under house arrest at Savuth's residence in Phnom Penh. Like Kosem, Savuth was also known to be deeply implicated in Sihanouk's secret arrangement with North Vietnam by which weapons were smuggled through Cambodia (along the \"Sihanouk Trail\") to the Viet Cong.Subsequent to the Khmer Republic's declaration, Savuth rose to the rank of Brigadier-General. Despite assurances, from the Republic's US backers, that Savuth was \"better drunk than most Cambodian officers sober\", his most prominent campaign (Operation Chenla I) was a military disaster.In 1971, Savuth wrote to US President Richard Nixon, offering him his pet elephant \"Khaat\" (\"Little Frog\") as a gift. Nixon did not respond to the offer, though Savuth's wife told Peter R. Kann of the Wall Street Journal that she was rather pleased with this as \"giving away an elephant is bad luck\".Savuth was killed in a car accident in November 1972. A newsreel of his subsequent cremation (in accordance with traditional Buddhist practices) is still held by the Documentation Center of Cambodia.".
- Um_Savuth deathDate "1972".
- Um_Savuth deathYear "1972".
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- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Buddhism.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Cambodia.
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- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Cambodian_coup_of_1970.
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- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Category:1972_deaths.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cambodian_anti-communists.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cambodian_military_personnel.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Category:Year_of_birth_missing.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Chauffeur.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Cremation.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Degar.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Documentation_Center_of_Cambodia.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Elephant.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Khmer_National_Armed_Forces.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Khmer_Republic.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Les_Kosem.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Lon_Nol.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Norodom_Sihanouk.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink North_Vietnam.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Operation_Chenla_I.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Peter_R._Kann.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Phnom_Penh.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Richard_Nixon.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Sihanouk_Trail.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink The_Wall_Street_Journal.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink United_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Oppressed_Races.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Viet_Cong.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLink Vietnam.
- Um_Savuth wikiPageWikiLinkText "Um Savuth".
- Um_Savuth dateOfDeath "1972".
- Um_Savuth name "Um Savuth".
- Um_Savuth shortDescription "Cambodian army officer".
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- Um_Savuth description "Cambodian army officer".
- Um_Savuth description "Cambodian army officer".
- Um_Savuth subject Category:1972_deaths.
- Um_Savuth subject Category:Cambodian_anti-communists.
- Um_Savuth subject Category:Cambodian_military_personnel.
- Um_Savuth subject Category:Year_of_birth_missing.
- Um_Savuth hypernym Officer.
- Um_Savuth type Agent.
- Um_Savuth type Person.
- Um_Savuth type Person.
- Um_Savuth type Anti-communist.
- Um_Savuth type Agent.
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- Um_Savuth type Q215627.
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- Um_Savuth comment "Um Savuth (? - 1972) was a Cambodian army officer who came to his greatest prominence during the Cambodian Civil War, where he was responsible for commanding the Khmer National Armed Forces during their disastrous 1971 offensive, Operation Chenla I.".
- Um_Savuth label "Um Savuth".
- Um_Savuth sameAs Q7880988.
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- Um_Savuth sameAs Um_Savuth.
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- Um_Savuth wasDerivedFrom Um_Savuth?oldid=564080745.
- Um_Savuth isPrimaryTopicOf Um_Savuth.
- Um_Savuth name "Um Savuth".