Hing Bun Hieng | |
Native Name: | ហ៊ីង ប៊ុនហ៊ាង |
Native Name Lang: | km |
Office: | Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces |
Primeminister: | Hun Sen |
Birth Place: | Kampuchea |
Children: | Hing Chamroeun |
Mawards: | is not set --> |
Allegiance: | Cambodia |
Branch: | Royal Cambodian Armed Forces |
Rank: | Lieutenant General |
Awards: | is not set --> |
Lieutenant General Hing Bun Hieng (born 1957,[1] Central Khmer: ហ៊ីង ប៊ុនហ៊ាង; also spelt Hing Bun Heang) is a Cambodian general and the commander of the Prime Minister Hun Sen's personal bodyguard unit.[2] [3], he held the rank of lieutenant general.[4]
In June 2018, the United States government sanctioned Bun Hieng for human rights abuses, specifically his role in multiple attacks against unarmed Cambodians dating back to 1997. In July 2020, he was appointed as a supreme advisor to Tep Vong, the Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia, and Bour Kry, the head of Cambodia's Dhammayuttika Nikaya order.[5] In December 2001, the Judicial Court of Paris issued arrest warrants for Bun Hieng and Huy Piseth for orchestrating a grenade attack at a political rally in Phnom Penh on 30 March 1997.[6] The attack, which preceded the 1997 Cambodian coup d'état, killed 16, and injured more than 150 individuals.
Bun Hieng's son, Hing Chamroeun, is also a member of the Prime Minister's Bodyguard Unit.[7]