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| |  | | Ieng Sary | | | context : | Cambodia  | | judgement place : | Cambodia | | status : | Investigations underway | | particulars : | Sentenced to death in absentia on 19 August 1979 by the People’s Revolutionary Tribunal; Officially pardoned by King Norodom Sihanouk on September 14, 1996 ; charged by the ECCC for crimes against humanity and war crimes; arrested on 12 November 2007 | | position : | Former deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Khmer Rouge government |
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| | | | Kim Trang (alias Ieng Sary) was born in Vietnam in either 1922 or 1925 near the Cambodian border. He was an outstanding student at Collège Sisowath in Phnom Penh and in 1946 created the student organisation “Libération du Cambodge du colonialisme français”. Ieng Sary is said to have organised the first student protests of the country’s history.
At the end of the 1940s, Ieng Sary received a scholarship to study in France at the Lycée Condorcet and at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. It was during this period that he was introduced to communism and, in 1951, he became a member of the French Communist Party. It was equally during this time that he met Pol Pot and Khieu Samphan (see “related cases”). In 1951 Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan founded the Cercle marxiste des étudiants Khmers à Paris (Marxist Circle of Khmer students in Paris). The same year, he became Pol Pot’s brother-in-law by marrying Ieng Tirith, the sister of Pol Pot’s first wife.
In 1957, Ieng Sary returned to Cambodia where he became a history professor at Collège Sisowath and an active member of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
In 1963, he fled underground with Pol Pot to join the Khmer Rouge. It was at this time that he changed his Vietnamese name to that of Ieng Sary.
During the civil war of 1971 to 1975, he participated in the Royal Government of the National Union of Kampuchea and was the special envoy of the National United Front of Kampuchea.
Once the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia, Ieng Sary became deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and was designated “Brother number 3”.
Ieng Sary would equally be responsible for the Boueng Trebek internment and re-education camp, camps B17 and B18, in the province of Kompong Cham.
Ieng Sary is considered the person who carried out Pol Pot’s most atrocious campaigns, most notably, the massive purges within the Khmer Rouge movement. Ieng Sary was responsible for the execution of Cambodian expatriates who were deceived into returning to Cambodia under the pretence of participating in so-called National Reconstruction. It is also alleged that he was the architect of the massacre of intellectuals beginning in April 1975.
As Vietnamese forces took control of Cambodia in 1979, Ieng Sary fled to Thailand. He was then sentenced to death in abstentia by the People’s Revolutionary Tribunal of Phnom Penh (see ‘legal procedure’). He would, however, continue to assume his official functions within the government in exile as the international community refused to recognise the new Cambodian government.
After the creation of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea in 1982, Ieng Sary transfered his title of Minister of Foreign Affaires to Khieu Samphan. Throughout this time, Ieng Sary personally took command of Pailin, a Khmer Rouge stronghold.
In August 1996, Ieng Sary left the Khmer Rouge to join the government of Phnom Penh with 10 000 of his followers. Through forces loyal to him, he would continue to lead the now “semi-autonomous” zone of Pailin. | |     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 : | | | Frère numéro trois, Van | | | last time seen : | | | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | | | period of charges : | | | 17.04.1975 - 07.01.1979 | | | judgement period : | | | 15.08.1979 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 10.07.2008 |
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