Chan Sy, spelt Chan Si, was a Cambodian politician who served as the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1982 until his death in 1984.
10 Facts About Chan Sy
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Chan Sy was a Cambodian of Chinese descent who early in his life became a military figure by joining the Khmer Viet Minh forces in 1950s.
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Chan Sy left Cambodia in 1954 after the Geneva Conference that recognized Prince Norodom Sihanouk's government as the sole legitimate authority in independent Cambodia.
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Chan Sy, who was opposed to ultra-nationalist Pol Pot, by whose partisans he was detained in 1973.
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Chan Sy reappeared on the scene in 1978, with the forces of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation and with the Vietnamese that toppled the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979.
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When Pen Sovan was replaced as party general secretary by Heng Samrin, Chan Sy took over the premiership.
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Chan Sy spent many years in Vietnam and was a founding member of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation that overthrew Pol Pot's regime.
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Chan Sy died in a Moscow hospital, where he was being treated for a cardiac ailment, in December 1984.
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Chan Sy's death was reported by the Vietnamese information agency on December 31,1984, although he was believed to have died some days earlier.
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Chan Sy was a good friend of Pen Sovan, who fell into disgrace earlier for irritating the Vietnamese.