General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea

General Secretary of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
General Secretary of the Central Committee; of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
អគ្គលេខាធិការគណៈកម្មាធិការមជ្ឈិមបក្សកុម្មុយនិស្តកម្ពុជា
	Emblem of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
	Banner of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
	Last and longest in office; Pol Pot; 22 February 1963 – 6 December 1981
	Central Committee of the Communist Party
Type	Party leader
Member of	Politburo; Secretariat
Seat	Phnom Penh
Appointer	Central Committee
Formation	30 September 1960; 63 years ago
First holder	Tou Samouth
Final holder	Pol Pot
Abolished	6 December 1981; 42 years ago

The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Khmer: អគ្គលេខាធិការគណៈកម្មាធិការមជ្ឈិមបក្សកុម្មុយនីស្តកម្ពុជា) was the highest office in the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK).^[1] The General Secretary was elected at plenary sessions of the party's Central Committee, and chaired the Secretariat and Politburo. The office was abolished when the CPK dissolved in 1981, two years after being removed from power in the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.

General secretaries edit

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	In office			Notes
No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	From	To	Duration	Notes
1		Tou Samouth ទូ សាមុត (1915–1962)	30 September 1960	20 July 1962	1 year, 293 days	Inaugural officeholder; disappeared under disputed circumstances in July 1962.
2		Pol Pot ប៉ុល ពត (1925–1998)	22 February 1963	6 December 1981	18 years, 287 days	Elected in February 1963, maintained post until the dissolution in 1981. Under his leadership, the party's guerrilla branch, Khmer Rouge, succeeded in overthrowing US-backed military government of Lon Nol, and on 17 April 1975, established Democratic Kampuchea, an agrarian socialist dictatorship.