12 Facts About Ros Chantrabot

Ros Chantrabot is a Khmer novelist, poet, historian and member of the Royal Academy of Cambodia.

Ros Chantrabot was born on September 1,1945, in Phnom Penh, under the French protectorate of Cambodia.

Ros Chantrabot began his career in journalism as the owner and editor-in-chief of Khmer language newspaper Ponleu Angkor.

Ros Chantrabot rejected the claim that this coup was the work of the United States of America, and explained that its main protagonist were Lon Non and Sirik Matak.

Ros Chantrabot worked as an associate researcher at the Center national de Recherche Scientifique in Paris until he could return to Cambodia after the monarchy was restored in 1992.

Ros Chantrabot is a personal Adviser to Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia with the rank of Senior Minister.

Ros Chantrabot is a privileged witness of the disrupted history of Cambodia since the 1960s, having been close to King Sihanouk, Lon Non and currently Hun Sen.

Ros Chantrabot wrote a history of the Khmer Republic in which he blamed the failure of republican politics on the petty motivations and rivalries of Cambodian politicians.

Ros Chantrabot nevertheless defended a patriotic love for Cambodia, which he defined according to the traditional definition of the Khmer Empire as "any parcel of land on which a palm-tree grows", and contributed to shaping the popular image of the Kingdom of Cambodia promoted by Hun Sen.

Ros Chantrabot joined the effort to rebuild an intelligentsia in Cambodia joining the Royal Academy of Cambodia as a pro-government historian.

Ros Chantrabot has edited and published Cambodian Royal Chronicles helping to renew the study of Khmer historiography by integrating folklore and official narratives with Khmer inscriptions.

Ros Chantrabot has actively promoted the figure of Sdach Korn in Khmer history.