Preap In
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Preap In | |
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ព្រាប អ៊ិន | |
| Born | 1938 |
| Died | January 1964 Trapeang Kraleung, Kampong Speu Province, Cambodia |
| Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
| Occupation | Political dissident |
| Organization | Khmer Serei |
Preap In (Khmer: ព្រាប អ៊ិន, 1938–1964) was a Cambodian political dissident of the 1950s–1960s.
A high-level cadre of the Khmer Serei, a rightist militia formed to oppose the regime of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, In is remembered largely for an unsuccessful 1963 attempt to 'negotiate' directly with Sihanouk, resulting in his arrest and public execution by firing squad.
In was born in Kampong Trach, Kampot, into a farming family, and was the nephew of In Tam, a provincial governor and prominent Cambodian politician of the post-independence years. In studied engineering in Phnom Penh; like Tam, he was a member of the Democratic Party, a broadly leftist, pro-independence party that was absorbed into Sihanouk's Sangkum movement in the later 1950s.
At some point In joined the Khmer Serei, an anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla movement founded by the exiled politician Son Ngoc Thanh; the Khmer Serei operated largely in areas on the Thai and South Vietnamese borders, and were thought to be at least partly funded by the CIA. Sihanouk was later to describe In as "one of the right-hand men" of Son Ngoc Thanh.[1]