Khieu Samphan

Khieu Samphan ( born July 27, 1931 in Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia ) is a former senior official of the Khmer Rouge and was from 1976 to 1979 Head of State of Cambodia.

Life

He received his education at the Sorbonne in Paris. There he received his doctorate in 1959 on the economy of Cambodia ( see literature). Even before the takeover by the Khmer Rouge in 1975, he became head of the dreaded 870 offices, the party organization Angkar. During the reign of terror of the Khmer Rouge Khieu Samphan was after the forced resignation of Prince Norodom Sihanouk from 1976 to 1979 head of state of the newly established Democratic Kampuchea and was regarded as the international public as the face of the regime, a role he continued after 1979 for the Khmer Rouge exercised.

After the invasion of Vietnamese troops in 1979, and the overthrow of the regime of terror he fled to the People's Republic of China, where he served more than by the United Nations officially recognized representative of Kampuchea. Under the formed in 1982 by the Khmer Rouge and Sihanouk government in exile " coalition of Democratic Kampuchea " Khieu Samphan was vice-president with the area of ​​responsibility of a Minister for Foreign Affairs. In 1985, he was officially named the successor of Pol Pot as leader of the Khmer Rouge. Khieu Samphan in 1991 was speaker of the Khmer Rouge in the peace negotiations in Paris. The activities carried out under UN supervision in Cambodia in 1992 elections were boycotted under his leadership of the Khmer Rouge.

Against the background of ideological disputes within the Khmer Rouge and the prospects of its policies, Khieu Samphan in 1998 resulted in the Hun Sen government in Phnom Penh and was amnestied by this. Khieu Samphan in 2003 declared publicly in a six -page letter, he recognized the fact of genocide in the reign of the Khmer Rouge in hindsight though to, but I have it neither knew nor had he been responsible.

On November 18, 2007 Khieu Samphan was arrested when the last surviving senior official of the Khmer regime. The now 76- year-old was discharged at gunpoint from a hospital in Phnom Penh and handed over to the set up in 2006 the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. The US-backed UN tribunal to investigate and pass judgment perpetrated between 1975 and 1979 crimes of the Khmer Rouge. On 16 September 2010 was officially indicted Khieu Samphan. The trial began on June 27, 2011., He was Defends among others by the French lawyer Jacques Vergès.

Works

  • Khieu Samphan: The economy of Cambodia and the problems of its industrialization; Dissertation Paris in 1959; German by Gerd Koenen: Frankfurt am Main: KBW -Verlag KG cooling, Communist People's Daily / communism and class struggle / Documentation, 1979
  • Khieu Samphan: Cambodia 's Economy and Industrial Development; Translation from the French by Laura Summers. Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1979
  • Khieu Samphan: L' histoire du Cambodge récente et mes prises de position; Paperback: 174 pages Publisher: Editions L' Harmattan, February 1, 2004 Language: French ISBN 978-2747559478
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