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Ran Serey Leakhena

politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ27964755 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ran Serey Leakhena (Khmer: រ៉ន សិរីលក្ខិណា, born 1 October 1979) is an appointed government official for coordinating the international cooperation to fight against human trafficking in Cambodia.

Editorial summary

“Ran Serey Leakhena” enters the record as politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Serey, Leakhena and politician can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-10-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Serey, Leakhena and politician.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Ran Serey Leakhena” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Serey, Leakhena and politician provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27964755. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Ran Serey Leakhena” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.