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Returning from Paris with his doctorate in 1959, Khieu held a faculty position at the University of Phnom Penh and started L ' Observateur, a French-language leftist publication that was viewed with hostility by the government.

His first important conflict with the anti-Communist Cambodian government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk came the following year, when L ' Observateur was banned and Samphan was arrested, forced to undress and photographed in public.