Ieng Thirith
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Ieng Thirith was an influential intellectual and politician in the Khmer Rouge, although she was neither a member of the Khmer Rouge Standing Committee nor of the Central Committee. Ieng Thirith was t
Ieng Thirith Case 002 Initial Hearing
Thirith on trial in 2011
Pol Pot
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Pol Pot was a Cambodian politician, revolutionary, and dictator who ruled Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 until his overthrow in 1979 during the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. Ideologically a Maoist and Khm
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…Minister of Social Affairs from October 1975 until the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. She was the sister of Khieu Ponnary, who was the first wife of Pol Pot. She was arrested by the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in November 2007 with her husband, Ieng Sary, on suspicion of genocide…
Pol Pot in May 1978
Prek Sbauv, the village where Pol Pot was born and spent his early years
Sâr arrived in Paris on 1 October 1949. Paris pictured in 1950.
In Paris, Pol Pot was inspired by the writings of Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin (pictured together in 1949) on how to conduct a revolution.