. General Saukam Khoy, the former acting president of the Khmer Republic regime in 1975, passed away on Friday 14 November at the age of 95. He was hospitalized in Stockton, California, USA. General Saukam Khoy is survived by 6 children. Saukam Vanchan, his fourth son who currently lives in Houston, Texas, told RFA that the funeral for the general will be held on Friday 21 November 2008, in Stockton, California. Saukam Vanchan also gave a brief biography of General Saukam Khoy: During the Lon Nol Khmer Republic regime, General Saukam Khoy was the President of the Senate, however, when General Lon Nol was hit by a stroke and transported out of Cambodia to Hawaii for medical care, General Saukam Khoy assumed the acting president position to replace Lon Nol for a few months until Cambodia fell into the hands of the Khmer Rouge. Saukam Vanchan added that General Saukam Khoy left Cambodia on 12 April 1975 to seek refuge in Bangkok for one month before he was whisked to the US by the US government along with his family. The General and his family originally lived in Texas before moving to California.
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