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The 'rural' cadres of the party were decimated by
Sihanouk's security forces in 1959, following Sieu Heng's defection to the government. In the face of increasing repression from Sihanouk's government, the KPRP held a secret meeting in 1960 in Phnom Penh railway station. Samouth, who still advocated
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Samouth disappeared in disputed circumstances in July 1962; the event was a closely guarded secret until the later 1970s. Although he is usually assumed to have been murdered by
Sihanouk's police, it has been suggested that Pol Pot may have arranged Samouth's death to ensure his own promotion to
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of killing
Samouth. Chea, who was later executed, had been a courier for Pol Pot's group in 1962. Pol Pot denied these claims in one of the last interviews before his death, stating that Samouth, who had left his safe house to obtain medicine for his sick child, had been arrested by
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Vietnamese-sponsored 'urban' faction of the Cambodian Party, Samouth's presence helped to attract many Buddhist monks to the left-wing cause. The 'urban' communists, as opposed to
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claims that there is strong evidence that Pol Pot's circle was responsible for
Samouth's disappearance: in particular a secret Party report on 'internal enemies', dating from 1978, accused
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