CPP Ratanakiri lawmaker Bou Lam died on Monday of chronic illness, said a National Assembly spokesperson.
Parliament official Leng Peng Long said Bou Lam, who was the brother of well known indigenous leader Bou Thang, died in Ratanakiri province on Monday and had been receiving treatment for a chronic illness.
He added that Lam was a lawmaker for three or four mandates, and was not sure when the lawmaker exactly joined the assembly.
“We are contacting the family of the deceased to hold the formal ceremony for him,” Peng Long said.
According to a National Assembly resume, he was the Ratanakiri provincial governor from 2005 to 2009, and then a member of the Ratanakiri provincial council from 2009 to 2013. He was born on January 1, 1955 and has five children.
CPP Senator and spokesperson Sok Eysan said he hadn’t heard about the death as of Monday afternoon and referred queries to the National Assembly.
He added that Lam was from an indigenous minority and had represented the community residing in the northeast. Eysan said that Lam had participated in the fight to liberate the country from the Khmer Rouge.
His brother, Bou Thang, was also a Tampoun indigenous leader, who first joined the Khmer Rouge to fight Lon Nol, but later defected and overthrew the murderous regime. Thang died in 2019. Thang’s son, Thong Savun, is the current governor of Mondulkiri and a former governor for Ratanakiri.
