Buddhist Monk Is Enduring Symbol of Cambodian Independence Movement

Portrait of Hem Chieu at Wat Dambauk Mean Leak,a pagoda in his native village of Dambauk Mean inPonhea Leu district in Kandal province



By Michelle Vachon, The Cambodia Daily

December 9, 2013



Seventy years ago this month, a Cambodian monk died in a French penal colony off the coast of Vietnam.



Had the monk lived, he might have been a major force in Cambodia’s independence movement.