Bun Srun Theam

Theam Bun Srun is a Cambodian historian whose major publication, Cambodia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Quest for Survival, 1840 – 1863 (M.A. Thesis, The Australian National University, 1981) has been a reference for researchers on Cambodian modern history.

He was the Cambodian chargé d’affaires in Canberra from September 1974 when he petitioned for and was granted temporary residence in Australia to escape the Khmer Rouge régime.