1. Bun Rany is the spouse of the former prime minister of Cambodia Hun Sen.
11 Facts About Bun Rany
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Bun Rany served as the vice president of the National Association of the Cambodian Red Cross and, since 1998, as its president.
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Bun Rany has stated that her maternal grandparents' gentle instruction in Cambodian tradition was very influential in her later life.
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In 1970, when Rany was 16 years old, her grandparents died.
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Bun Rany chose the medical field and the leadership arranged for her training by doctors who had come from Phnom Penh to lecture fresh recruits.
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In March 1974, Bun Rany met Hun Sen who, having joined the Khmer Rouge in 1970, commanded most of the soldiers that were treated at her hospital.
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On 10 November 1976, Bun Rany gave birth to their first child in Memot, a son whom they named Kamsot who died later the same day as a result of being dropped by a Khmer Rouge nurse, Rany claims.
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Hun Sen and Bun Rany have six children, four sons and three daughters.
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Bun Rany, who was left behind, was imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge and would not see her husband again until almost two years later when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia in 1979.
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At its second congress in 1998, Bun Rany was elected president after Hun Sen consolidated his power by violently ousting and exiling Ranariddh.
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Bun Rany quickly denied these charges, and announced that she would press charges against L'Express for defamation.