Nuon Chea, the chief ideologist and 'Brother Number Two' of Cambodia&#...
PHNOM PENH - Nuon Chea, the chief ideologist and ‘Brother Number Two’ of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, whose brutal rule in the 1970s led to the deaths of some 2 million people, died on Sunday at the age of 93, a court spokesman said.
Chea was among a small clique — led by ‘Brother Number One’, Pol Pot — of mostly French-educated communists who rose to lead a bloody revolution against a U.S.-backed government after their country was engulfed by the Vietnam War. “We can confirm that defendant Nuon Chea, 93, passed away this evening on 4 August 2019 at Khmer Soviet Friendship hospital,” Neth Pheaktra, spokesman at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia , said.Of the Khmer Rouge’s leaders only former President Khieu Samphan and Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Comrade Duch, are serving life sentences after being convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Those carrying out the brutal beatings at S-21 were instructed to “smash to bits” traitors and counter-revolutionaries.
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