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Ieng Sary was Pol Pot’s right-hand man Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes tribunal has indicted four former Khmer Rouge leaders.
Nuon Cheaf, deputy to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, will stand trial next year, with former head of state Khieu Samphan, former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary, and his wife Ieng Thirith.
They are accused of genocide, torture and religious persecution.
In July former prison chief Duch was found guilty of crimes against humanity.
Duch had admitted overseeing the torture and execution of thousands of men, women and children at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison, reduced by 16 years for time already and because he had been held illegally.
Duch ran Tuol Sleng prison, where “enemies” of the Khmer Rouge regime were sent.
Up to two million people died because of the policies of the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979.
Their policies included the evacuation of cities, forced labour in the rice fields and the summary execution of those considered enemies of the revolution.
The group’s top leader, “Brother Number One” Pol Pot, died in 1998.
After the Khmer Rouge were overthrown, Duch disappeared for almost two decades, living under various aliases in north-western Cambodia and converting to Christianity. His chance discovery by an Irish journalist led to his arrest in 1999.
Only about a dozen people who were held at Tuol Sleng are thought to have survived, three of whom are still alive. Up to 17,000 people are believed to have died there.
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