Ieng Sary
Ieng Sary | |
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អៀង សារី | |
Deputy Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea | |
In office 14 April 1976 – 7 January 1979 | |
Prime Minister | Pol Pot |
Personal details | |
Born | Kim Trang 24 October 1925 Banteay Meanchey[1] |
Nationality | Cambodian |
Political party | Democratic National Union Movement (1996–2007) Cambodian National Unity Party (1992–1996) Party of Democratic Kampuchea (1981–1993) Communist Party of Kampuchea French Communist Party |
Spouse | |
Alma mater | Sciences Po |
Ieng Sary (
Early years
Sary was born in Nhan Hoa village, which is located in the subdistrict of Luong Hoa (known as Loeung Va in Khmer),
Sary and Saloth Sar also studied together in Paris. Whilst there, Sary rented an apartment in the Latin Quarter, a hotbed of student radicalism. He and Saloth Sar met with French communist intellectuals, and formed their own cell of Cambodian communists.[citation needed]
Sary and Khieu Thirith married in the town hall of Paris' 15th arrondissement in the winter of 1951. Thirith took her husband's name, becoming Ieng Thirith.[5]
Mid-life
After returning to Cambodia, he was inducted into the
After the fall of the Khmer Republic on 17 April 1975, Sary made personal appeals to expatriates to help rebuild Cambodia. However, when they returned to Cambodia, they were arrested on arrival, and thrown into brutal detention centers.[7] He took the nickname "Brother number 3" and, as head of diplomacy, he would be the only dignitary not to cultivate his secret identity.
He welcomed foreign visitors and was also responsible for purges and arrests in the government's ministries.[8] At the end of 1977, before the United Nations, he rejected accusations from Cambodian refugees who wanted to open a discussion with the Khmer Rouge government. Together with Pol Pot, Ieng Sary was sentenced to death in-absentia by the People's Revolutionary Tribunal after the Democratic Khmer regime of Khmer Rouge was overthrown by Vietnam in 1979.[citation needed]
King Norodom Sihanouk officially pardoned Ieng Sary in 1996 after his defection from Pol Pot. He was the founder of the Democratic National Union Movement, a split from the Cambodian National Unity Party.[9]
Arrest and trial
Ieng Sary, reportedly living in "an opulent Phnom Penh villa surrounded by security guards and barbed wire"
On 16 December 2009, the tribunal officially charged him with genocide for his involvement with the subjugation and murder of Vietnamese and Muslim minorities in Cambodia.[13]
Death
Sary died in
See also
References
- ^ Kong Sothanarith (6 June 2014). "Former Khmer Rouge Minister Hospitalized in Thailand" (in Khmer). Voice of America. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ^ "Transcript of Trial Proceedings" (PDF). cambodiatribunal.org. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ^ Bora, Touch. "Jurisdictional and Definitional Issues". Khmer Institute. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2007.
- ^ Sann Rada, Transcript of Trial Proceedings–Case File Nº 002/19-09-2007-ECCC/TC, Day 4–5 December 2011, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, retrieved 29 October 2013
- ^ ISBN 0813335108. Retrieved 15 November 2007.
- ^ Chandler, David P., Revising the Past in Democratic Kampuchea: When Was the Birthday of the Party?: Notes and Comments, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Summer, 1983), pp. 288–300.
- ^ BBC News, Top Khmer Rouge diplomat in court. 30 June 2008
- ISBN 978-2021055740. Archived from the originalon 2 January 2014.
- ^ Peter H. Maguire. Facing Death in Cambodia. New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. p. 101, 103.
- ^ "The Statesman". Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ^ Ed Johnson and Paul Tighe, "Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Arrested in Cambodia", Bloomberg L.P., 12 November 2007.
- ^ "Ex-official of Khmer Rouge and wife arrested for crimes against humanity", Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), 12 November 2007.
- ^ "Genocide charges for Khmer Rouge". 16 December 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2023 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ Mydans, Seth (14 March 2013). "Ieng Sary, Khmer Rouge Leader Tied to Genocide, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
- ^ a b "Khmer Rouge Founder Ieng Sary Dies". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ^ "KIeng Sary, minister for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, dies". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
External links
- Media related to Ieng Sary at Wikimedia Commons