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| |  | | Nuon Chea | | | context : | Cambodia  | | judgement place : | Cambodia | | status : | Investigations underway | | particulars : | Indicted for crimes against humanity and war crimes by the ECCC on 19 September 2007; placed under provisional detention; pre-trial chamber hearing on his appeal against provisional detention opened on 4 February 2008 | | position : | 'Brother Number Two' of the Khmer Rouge regime and former right hand man of Pol Pot |
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| | | | Nuon Chea, with real name Long Bunruot, was born in 1927, in Battambang.
He completed his secondary studies in Bangkok, Thailand where he lived until 1948. He then followed law studies in Bangkok without finishing them.
Between 1945 and 1948, he is a part time public servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and joins the Thai Communist Party (TCP).
Back in Cambodia in 1948, he joins the Indochinese Communist Party (independent Vietnamese movement led from Vietnam by Hô Chi Minh). In 1951, he takes part in the creation of the Revolutionary Party of the Kampuchea People (RPKP) and in the transformation of this party into the Kampuchea Communist Party (KCP). In 1962, he is appointed Deputy Secretary General of the KCP.
Between 1970 and 1975, Nuon Chea is vice president of the High Military Commandment of the People’s Armed Forced for the national liberation of Kampuchea. (PAFNLK) as well as head of the political leadership of the army (in the war against Vietnam).
On 17 April 1075, Phom Penh falls to the Khmer Rouge who then take control of the country.
On 9 October 1075, Nuon Chea is designated “Brother Number 2” of the Permanent Committee of the Central Committee, in charge of labour, social welfare, culture, propaganda and formal education (or Conscience work).
From 25 September till 15 October 1976, he was acting as Prime Minister of the Democratic Kampuchea. Between 1976 and 1979, he is President of Assembly of the Democratic Kampuchea.
As head of the security of the regime, Nuon Chea is considered as the ideologist of the Khmer Rouge and as a key actor of the revolution. He was the most powerful man after Pol Pot (see ‘related cases’) and when the latter died, he became the party’s highest person in charge still alive.
The Khmer Rouge « revolution » is said to have lead to 1,7 millions of death before the Vietnamese troops overthrew the regime in 1979.
On 19 September 2007, the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia (see ‘spotlight’) issued an order of provisional detention for Nuon Chea, in which he is charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was arrested the same day by special units of the army and police at his home in the jungle close to the Thai border where he was living since an agreement reached in December 1998 with the Cambodian government. He was brought into the custody of the ECCC. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | also known as : | | | Long Bunruot | | | last time seen : | | | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 10.07.2008 |
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