Honorific Prefix: | His Excellency |
Tep Hun | |
Office: | Minister of Justice |
Term Start: | 1967 |
Term End: | 1969 |
Predecessor: | Yem Sambaur |
Successor: | Yem Sambaur |
Party: | Sangkum |
Occupation: | Judge, politician, orchid producer |
Death Date: | 1975? |
Death Place: | Phnom Penh |
H.E. Tep Hun was a former orchid producer, judge, and minister of justice for Cambodia,[1] during the last years of the Norodom Sihanouk's Sangkum Reastr Niyum regime.
After the military coup of 1970, he was threaten and forced to seat in the Vice-President’s chair of the new Khmer Republic's Parliament
He was captured and killed, soon after the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975, by the Khmer Rouge.
He is the father of Tep Vattho (1963-2016) architect, former urbanist and director of the urban planning department of the Apsara Authority (Authority for the Protection of the Site and Management of the Region of Angkor), and he is grandfather of David Piot, manager for the family enterprices Angkor Village Hotel, Angkor Village Apsara Theatre and the elephant retirement park Kulen Elephant Forest. [2] [3]