The News International
PHNOM PENH: Former Khmer Rouge ideologue Nuon Chea and foreign minister Ieng Sary were both charged with genocide this week for their roles in the communist regime’s killing of ethnic Vietnamese and Cham Muslims.
Both are also charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity as key members of the 1975 to 1979 movement’s central committee, which oversaw the deaths of up to two million people through starvation, overwork and execution.
Now aged 83 and a secretive cadre even by the standards of one of the world’s most paranoid political movements, Nuon Chea was Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot’s most trusted deputy.
According to researchers, he was also a key architect of the regime’s death machine.
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