Ieng thirith biography of alberta

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          PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia's UN-backed tribunal has ruled that a former senior Khmer Rouge leader is unfit to stand trial for genocide.

        1. Ieng Sary's wife, former Social Affairs Minister Ieng Thirith, also was charged but was ruled unfit to stand trial last year because she suffers from.
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        3. PHNOM PENH — After 10 years of detention, Kaing Guek Eav, alias Comrade Duch, is to appear on Wednesday before the Extraordinary Chambers in.
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          5. Ieng Thirith

          Khmer rouge cadre

          In this Cambodian name, the surname is Ieng. In accordance with Cambodian custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Thirith.

          Ieng Thirith (née Khieu;[1]Khmer: អៀង ធីរិទ្ធ;[2] 10 March 1932[3] – 22 August 2015) was an influential intellectual and politician in the Khmer Rouge, although she was neither a member of the Khmer Rouge Standing Committee nor of the Central Committee.[4] Ieng Thirith was the wife of Ieng Sary, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Democratic Kampuchea's Khmer Rouge regime.

          She served as Minister of Social Affairs from October 1975 until the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979.[5][6]

          She was the sister of Khieu Ponnary, who was the first wife of Pol Pot. She was arrested by the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in November 2007 with her husband, Ieng Sary, on suspicion of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanit