Chau Seng

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}

{{short description|Cambodian politician}}

{{family name hatnote|lang=Cambodian|Chau|Seng}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Chau Seng

| native_name = ចៅ សេង

| native_name_lang = km

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|03|15}}

| birth_place = Tri Tôn, Châu Đốc Province, Cochinchina, French Indochina

| death_date = {{Death year and age|1977|1929}}

| death_place = Democratic Kampuchea

| occupation = Politician

| organization = Sangkum

}}

Chau Seng ({{langx|km|ចៅ សេង}}, 15 March 1929{{snd}}1977) was a Cambodian left-wing politician.

Seng was a Khmer Krom. Born in commune of Tri Tôn, Châu Đốc Province, Cochinchina (in present-day An Giang Province, Vietnam). He was a cousin of Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum. Educated in France, in Paris, he became a communist. On his return to Cambodia, he had become Norodom Sihanouk's private secretary.Philip Short, [https://books.google.com/books?id=XW24koscGMkC&q=Chau+Seng Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare], p. 129 He joint the Sangkum on 13 April 1957 together with Hou Yuon and Hu Nim. In the same year, Chau Seng was elected a member of National Assembly. After that he was appointed under-secretary, and later secretary of state for education. In 1967, he was rector of the Buddhist University.{{cite book |title=Area Handbook for Cambodia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8TZEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA178 |page=178 |date=October 1968 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |author1=Munson, Frederick P. |author2=Martindale, Kenneth W. |author3=McMorris, David S. |author4=Parachini, Kathryn E. |author5=Raiford, William N. |author6=Townsend, Charles}} Seng made a national attempt at Cambodianization, however it was failed.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XW24koscGMkC&q=Chau+Seng|title=Anatomy of a Crisis: Education, Development, and the State in Cambodia, 1953-1998|author=David M. Ayres|date=April 2007|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-2238-5|pages=43–44}}

After the Cambodian coup of 1970 in which Sihanouk was ousted by Lon Nol, Chau Seng served as the Minister for Special Missions of the GRUNK government, the Beijing-based government-in-exile that was formed as a coalition between Sihanouk and the communists.[https://www.eccc.gov.kh/sites/default/files/documents/courtdoc/00842167-00842169_E3_1720_EN.TXT.pdf GRUNK - Place de Barcelone]

Seng was arrested, tortured and later executed by the Khmer Rouge at S-21 prison{{cite news|url=https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pol-pots-daughter-marries-in-former-stronghold-54276/|title=Pol Pot's Daughter Marries in Former Stronghold|publisher=Cambodian Daily|date=17 March 2014|access-date=23 June 2019|archive-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529105409/https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pol-pots-daughter-marries-in-former-stronghold-54276/|url-status=dead}} in 1977.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XW24koscGMkC&q=Chau+Seng|title=Anatomy of a Crisis: Education, Development, and the State in Cambodia, 1953-1998|author=David M. Ayres|date=April 2007|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-2238-5|page=108}}