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Khampheng Boupha

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Khampheng Boupha
ຄຳແພງ ບຸບຜາ
Personal details
Born(1923-01-15)15 January 1923
Luang Prabang, Laos
Died2011 (aged 87–88)
Political partyLao People's Revolutionary Party
Spouse
Khamphay Boupha
(m. 1943)
OccupationTeacher

Khampheng Boupha (Lao: ຄຳແພງ ບຸບຜາ; 15 January 1923 – 2011) was a Laotian politician who served as a member of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and President of the Lao Women's Union.

Early life

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Khampheng Boupha was born in Luang Prabang and completed her schooling from there.[1]

Career

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Khampheng began her career as a teacher and later took up translation work.[2] From 1946 to 1949, she stayed in Thailand with her husband, a member of the Lao Issara government. A year later, both of them joined the Free Laos Front. She won the May 1958 supplementary elections for 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 Development'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 also served as president of Lao Women's Union and Secretary of State for Rural Affairs.[3][4]

Personal life

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In 1943, Khampheng married Khamphay Boupha,[1] who served as the Laotian deputy minister of foreign affairs from 1975 to 1985.[5] Kampheng Boupha died in 2011.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Stuart-Fox, Martin (2008). Historical Dictionary of Laos. Scarecrow Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-8108-6411-5.
  2. ^ Blackburn, Susan; Ting, Helen (2013). Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements. NUS Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-9971-69-674-0.
  3. ^ Zasloff, Joseph J.; Unger, Leonard (1991). Laos: Beyond the Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 175, 342. ISBN 978-1-349-11214-2.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Former Party Central Committee Member and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Khamphay Boupha, is Dead at 92". Vientiane Times. 5 January 2009.
  6. ^ Souvannamethy Kou, Mahaku. Khampheng Boupha (1923–2011). p. 1. Retrieved 5 March 2022.