Ieng Sary

Ieng Sary (Khmer Ieng Sari អៀង សារី [i ː ən sa ː ɽi ː ]; born October 24, 1925 at Mekong-Delta/Süd-Vietnam, † March 14, 2013 in Phnom Penh ) was a leading official of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. His designation within the hierarchy of the Khmer Rouge was " Brother Number 3".

Life

In the time of the Khmer Rouge

He was from 1975 to 1979 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Democratic Kampuchea. Ieng was the brother in law of Pol Pot, Ieng Thirith married to the sister of the first wife of Pol Pot, Khieu Ponnary.

He grew up as a member of the Khmer Krom population in South Vietnam. With Pol Pot, he had befriended in his school days in Phnom Penh. He studied together with Pol Pot in Paris in the 1950s. From 1971 to 1975 he lived in the People's Republic of China. In the period from 1975 to 1979 he was Secretary of the Khmer Rouge and Deputy Prime Minister. Ieng Sary in 1975 urged all Khmer diplomats and students from abroad to return to Cambodia to help the communist construction in the country. His reputation should be followed approximately 1,000 Cambodians, but only 200 of them survived the reign of terror of the Khmer Rouge.

After the end of the Khmer Rouge

After the occupation of Cambodia by Vietnamese troops Ieng Sary was sentenced to a popular tribunal in Phnom Penh in August 1979 (together with Pol Pot ) to death in absentia.

Ieng Sary was pardoned in 1996 at the insistence of Prime Minister Hun Sen of King Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh, so it initially threatened no indictment for genocide before the planned International Khmer Rouge Tribunal. He lived in Pailin in northwestern Cambodia. On 12 November 2007 he was arrested along with his wife and presented to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. On 16 December 2009, Ieng Sary was officially indicted for genocide by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

Death

Ieng Sary died on March 14, 2013 due to a heart condition in a hospital in Phnom Penh, before it could come to a conviction by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

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