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22.08.2008

Guek Eav Kaing

Indicted

Cambodia

Kaing Guek Eav, better know as Duch, was born around 1942. He taught mathematics and was drawn toward Communism by a group of Chinese exchange students at the University of Phnom Penh. Arrested by Sihanouk's police as a "Communist", he was held without trial for several months. Soon after Sihanouk was overthrown, Duch went into the maquis. In the early 1970s, Duch was in charge of security for the Communist Party north of Phnom Penh. The earl...

10.07.2008

Thirith Ieng

Investigations underway

Cambodia

Khieu Thirith was born in northwestern Cambodia’s Battambang Province in 1932. Coming from a relatively privileged family, she was the second daughter of a judge. Her older sister, Khieu Ponnary, later became the wife of Pol Pot, the leader of the communist movement called Khmer Rouge (see "related cases"). Graduated from the Lycée Sisowath in Phnom Penh, Khieu Thirith then went to study English Literature, majoring in Shakespeare, at the Sorb...

10.07.2008

Ieng Sary

Investigations underway

Cambodia

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 Condorce...

10.07.2008

Khieu Samphan

Investigations underway

Cambodia

Khieu Samphan is born the 27th of July 1931. He is the son of a provincial judge. In 1955, Khieu Samphan receives a bursary to study at the University of Montpellier in France, where he publishes a thesis on peasantry and Cambodian politics. In his thesis he (already) defends the idea that the Cambodian economy can only become autonomous if it isolates itself from the international economy, with agricultural development serving as a foundation...

10.07.2008

Nuon Chea

Investigations underway

Cambodia

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 Vietna...

15.02.2008

Ta Mok

Died before end of trial

Cambodia

Former Buddhist monk and student at the Pali High School in Phnom Penh, Chhit Choeun, alias Ta Mok, was actively involved in the 1940’s in the resistance movements against the French and the Japanese. Later, he joined the Cambodian Communist Party. His activity was concentrated in the Southwest Zone, and he was nominated as a member of the Central Committee of the Cambodian Communist Party in 1963. In 1968, he became Secretary of the Southwest...

22.11.2007

Saloth Sar

Sentenced

Cambodia

Saloth Sar, aka Pol Pot, was born on 19 May 1925 in Prek Sbauv, in the Cambodian province of Kampong Thom. His parents are prosperous Sino-Khmer farmers with ties to the royal authorities of Cambodia. After attending a catholic high-school in Phnom Penh, Saloth Sar wins a government scholarship to study radio electronics in France where he will stay from 1949 to 1953. In France, he joins the French communist party and discovers Marxism. ...

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