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Hu Nim ((クメール語:ហូ នឹម), July 25, 1930 or 1932 – July 6, 1977), alias "Phoas" (), was a Cambodian Communist intellectual and politician who held a number of ministerial posts. His long political career included spells with the Sangkum regime of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Communist guerrilla resistance, the GRUNK coalition government-in-exile, and the administration of Democratic Kampuchea, when the country was controlled by the Communist Party of Kampuchea (the Khmer Rouge). Nim had a reputation as one of the most independent-minded and outspoken members of the Khmer Rouge, and was eventually arrested, tortured and executed at Tuol Sleng security prison in 1977 during a Party purge. ==Early life== Hu Nim was born in 1932 (25 July 1932 according to some sources) in the village of Korkor, Kampong Siem District, Kampong Cham Province to a Sino-Khmer family. Unlike many of his later colleagues in the Party intelligentsia, he came from a poor background. In his 'confession' ''I would like to report to the Party about my history'', extracted under torture at Tuol Sleng, Nim was to relate that "my father, Hou, died in 1936 when I was just six years old. I then lived in the care of my mother, named Sorn, a poor peasant. She earned her living by offering household services to people". His mother, who remarried a landless peasant farmer, eventually sent him to live with Sam Khor at a pagoda in Mien, Prey Chhor District.〔(The Confession of Hu Nim, aka Phoas, 3 May 1977 ), Documentation Centre of Cambodia〕 Brought up by Sam Khor, Nim was given the chance to study at Kampong Cham junior school, going on to the ''Lycee Sisowath'' in the capital, Phnom Penh. Here, he stayed at the Unnalom Monastery, with his studies being funded by the family of his future wife. In the early 1950s, Nim - in common with many other later Communists - became associated with the left-leaning, pro-independence Democratic Party. As his confession stated, he was a part of the party's radical People's Movement wing, the ''Pracheachollana'', led by Um Sim and associated with the republican nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh.〔Kiernan, B. ''(How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930-1975 )'', Yale University Press, 2004, p. 157. ISBN 0-300-10262-3〕 Nim married in 1952, and subsequent to finishing his studies worked briefly as a teacher. After further studies in Law and Economics he moved into government work, and secured a full-time post at the Ministry of the Interior. He continued his work for the Democratic Party up to the 1955 elections, which handed power to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Sangkum movement amidst an atmosphere of extreme political intimidation and possible vote-rigging. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hu Nim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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