Khampheng Boupha
Khampheng Boupha (born 1923) is a Laotian politician and former member of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
Early life
Khampheng Boupha was born in Luang Prabang city on 15 January 1923 and did her schooling from there.[1]
Career
Khampheng began her career as a teacher and later took up translation jobs.[2] During 1946–49, she stayed in Thailand with her husband, a member of the Lao Issara government. A year later, however both of them joined the Free Laos Front. She won the May 1968 supplementary elections from Luang Prabang and became a member of the National Assembly of Laos. It was during this time that the Boupha couple was actively involved with the Pathet Lao communist movement in Vietnam.[1]
In 1979, Khampheng became a member of the newly formed Lao Front for National Construction's Standing Committee and three years later was elected to the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.[1] Owing to health issues, she did not stand for re-election. She has also served as president of Union of Lao Women and Secretary of State for Rural Affairs.[3][4]
Personal life
In 1943, Khampheng married Khamphay Boupha.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Stuart-Fox, Martin (2008). Historical Dictionary of Laos. Scarecrow Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-8108-6411-5.
- ^ Blackburn, Susan; Ting, Helen (2013). Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements. NUS Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-9971-69-674-0.
- ^ Zasloff, Joseph J.; Unger, Leonard (1991). Laos: Beyond the Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 175, 342. ISBN 978-1-349-11214-2.
- ^ Dommen, Arthur J. (2002). The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Indiana University Press. p. 498. ISBN 0-253-10925-6.
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