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  BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Key Khmer Rouge figures charged
Former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith, were taken into custody in the capital, Phnom Penh.
Ieng Sary was Pol Pot's brother-in-law - his wife's sister was married to the Khmer Rouge founder.
Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith are the third and fourth people to be targeted by the tribunal.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7090052.stm   (561 words)

  
  Ieng Sary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ieng Sary [the initial letter of the first name is "I" as in "income"] (born 1922 or 1925), a powerful figure in the Khmer Rouge was the deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979.
Ieng Sary and Pol Pot studied together in Paris.
On February 17, 2006, Radio Australia carried a report saying that Ieng Sary had been hospitalized in Bangkok, Thailand, after a serious heart attack.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ieng_Sary   (224 words)

  
 Calibrate Themeset
Ieng Sary was a deputy prime minister in the government of Democratic Kapuchea between 1975 and 1978.
Ieng Sary, who was also foreign minister in the Khmer Rouge government, said he has been contributing to national rebuilding and reconciliation since he defected to the government in 1996.
Ieng Sary said he was not responsible for the genocide, claiming he was only in charge of foreign affairs and was never involved with security matters.
www.khmerkampongspeu.org /iengsary.htm   (953 words)

  
 Ieng Thirith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ieng Thirith is a member of the Khmer Rouge Central Committee.
Khieu Thirith married Ieng Sary in a Paris ballroom in 1951.
Currently, Thirith lives with her husband Ieng Sary in a luxurious villa in Phnom Penh.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ieng_Thirith   (209 words)

  
 Bangkok Post: Top Stories
Sary was pardoned of genocide by former king Norodom Sihanouk in 1996 in exchange for defecting to the government and breaking the back of the remaining rebel Khmer Rouge movement, but he was not pardoned of human rights abuses or war crimes.
Ieng Sary and his wife, a sister-in-law of the late leader Pol Pot, were members of the seven-person inner circle, or Angka, which ran Cambodia from April 1975 through January 1979.
Ieng Sary was pardoned and given immunity for genocide by former king Norodom Sihanouk in 1996 in exchange for defecting to the government and breaking the back of the remaining rebel Khmer Rouge movement, but he was not pardoned of human rights abuses or war crimes.
www.bangkokpost.com /topstories/topstories.php?id=123498   (768 words)

  
 Forgive and forget, says 'killing fields' leader
IENG SARY, the Khmer Rouge dissident who was deputy prime minister during Pol Pot's "killing fields" regime in the Seventies, yesterday appealed to Cambodians to forget the deaths of two million people and make peace with him.
Ieng Sary's break from the mainstream Khmer Rouge has left the government with the dilemma of whether it should treat him as a mass murderer or meet his demands for an amnesty.
Ieng Sary, speaking in a crowded, open meeting hall, confirmed that a ceasefire was in place between his followers and the government.
telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/09/10/wpot10.html   (595 words)

  
 IENG SARY
Ieng Sary was a deputy prime minister in the government of Democratic Kapuchea between 1975 and 1978.
The early life of Ieng Sary is obscure, with his date of birth probably in the second half of the 1920s and his place of birth in Tra- Vinh Province (Preah Trapeang) in southern Vietnam (Kampuchea Krom) also known as Cochinchina.
Since then, Ieng Sary has ceased to hold an official position and lost his political influence with the end of his role as the intermediary for the distribution of Chinese material and military assistance.
www.geocities.com /khmerkrom2000/IENG_SARY.html   (511 words)

  
 wcbstv.com - Ex-Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary Detained
Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith, are both accused of involvement in the slayings of political opponents during the 1975-79 radical communist regime, according to documents from prosecutors seen by The Associated Press.
Ieng Sary, "promoted, instigated, facilitated, encouraged and/or condoned the perpetration of the crimes" when the Khmer Rouge held power, according to a July 18 filing by the prosecutors to the tribunal's judges, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press.
Ieng Sary was detained in Cambodia on Nov. 11, 2007.
wcbstv.com /topstories/Cambodia.Khmer.Rouge.2.565440.html   (585 words)

  
 Cambodia - Democratic Kampuchea
Ieng Sary served as Democratic Kampuchea's deputy prime minister in charge of foreign affairs and as its chairman on the Coordinating Committee for Economy and Finance.
Ieng Sary's status in 1987 was unclear because he had not been seen in public since August 1985.
For years Ieng Sary and Pol Pot were named by their adversaries as the two figures most responsible for mass murders in Cambodia, and Hanoi and the Heng Samrin regime insisted on their exclusion from any future political accommodation with the CGDK.
countrystudies.us /cambodia/73.htm   (682 words)

  
 The Cambodia Daily WEEKEND
Ieng Sary has a book-publishing deal to write an autobiography about his time as a Khmer Rouge leader, though in his twilight years he is having trouble remembering all the events, relatives said recently.
Ieng Sary was able to swap his jungle base in Pailin for his plush Phnom Penh villa in 1996 after he defected with hundreds of rebel fighters to the government and received a royal amnesty for a conviction of genocide that had been handed down in Phnom Penh in 1979 by a Vietnamese-sponsored court.
Ieng Sary was born in 1930 in the region of southern Vietnam known to many Cambodians as Kampuchea Krom.
www.camnet.com.kh /cambodia.daily/selected_features/retired_ideal.htm   (3502 words)

  
 Strongmen of Pailin are getting older / Cambodia town's politics is to bring ex-Khmer Rouge leaders to justice
Ieng Vuth's reservations are understandable, since his own father, Ieng Sary, Pol Pot's foreign minister, is among those accused of war crimes.
Ieng Sary, who defected in 1996 and received a royal pardon, divides his time between Pailin and a mansion in Phnom Penh, the capital.
Ieng Sary's daughter heads the provincial election commission, charged with counting the vote and settling electoral disputes.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/27/MN60198.DTL&type=printable   (931 words)

  
 Trial Watch : Ieng Sary (Frère numéro trois, Van)
Ieng Sary is said to have organised the first student protests of the country’s history.
Ieng Sary would equally be responsible for the Boueng Trebek internment and re-education camp, camps B17 and B18, in the province of Kompong Cham.
Ieng Sary was responsible for the execution of Cambodian expatriates who were deceived into returning to Cambodia under the pretence of participating in so-called National Reconstruction.
www.trial-ch.org /en/trial-watch/profile/db/facts/ieng_sary_660.html   (713 words)

  
 [30 Sep 1996]: PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF CAMBODIA
At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, Cambodia's Foreign Minister, Ung Huot, told correspondents that the defection of one of the leaders of the Khmer Rouge, Ieng Sary, to the Cambodian Government would mean that the Khmer Rouge's forces would be diminished and weakened and the "little war" with those forces would cease.
Ieng Sary -- was it extended to forgiveness for his alleged crimes during the years of Khmer Rouge's rule and would he have to face trial for any of the crimes committed in Cambodia in the 1970s?
Minister Ung Huot said the amnesty granted by King Sihanouk referred to the judgements passed on Ieng Sary, in absentia, by the Cambodian State in 1979 when he was condemned to death.
www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1996/19960930.huot2.html   (768 words)

  
 Former Khmer Rouge foreign minister in court - CNN.com
Ieng Sary is one of five defendants being held by the tribunal, which plans to begin its first trial later this year.
Ieng Sary has dismissed the charges as "unacceptable" and demanded evidence to support them, according to a copy of his detention order.
Ieng Sary and his wife belonged to the inner circle of the Khmer Rouge and were in-laws of the movement's late leader, Pol Pot, who was married to Khieu Ponnary, Ieng Thirith's sister.
edition.cnn.com /2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/30/cambodia.khmer.ap/index.html?eref=edition   (541 words)

  
 Commentary: History catches up with Khmer Rouge - upiasiaonline.com
Ieng Sary disputed the crimes and declared, "There are certain accusations that I cannot accept." He further demanded that proof of his guilt be provided.
Ieng Sary expressed no remorse, saying, "I have no regrets because this was not my responsibility." He regretted though the death of intellectuals living abroad that he had urged to return to help rebuild the country, all of whom were later killed.
Ieng Sary again mounted a fierce attack on that subcommission's decision to proceed with an analysis of the materials submitted.
www.upiasiaonline.com /Human_Rights/2007/11/21/commentary_history_catches_up_with_khmer_rouge/6137   (837 words)

  
 SCMP.com - the online edition of South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's premier English-language newspaper
In their detention order in November, the investigating judges said Ieng Sary was being prosecuted for supporting Khmer Rouge policies that were "characterised by murder, extermination, imprisonment, persecution on political grounds and other inhuman acts such as forcible transfers of the population, enslavement and forced labour".
Ieng Sary has dismissed the charges against him as "unacceptable" and demanded evidence to support them, according to a copy of his detention order.
Ieng Sary's health has deteriorated since his arrest, according to his lawyer, highlighting the fragile condition of the tribunal's likely defendants, who are mostly in their 70s and 80s.
www.scmp.com /vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=aa57b193674da110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&s=News&ss=Asia   (673 words)

  
 Couple Who Helped Lead Khmer Rouge Are Arrested - New York Times
Ieng Sary, the former foreign minister and deputy prime minister of Cambodia, attending a funeral in July 2003.
Ieng Sary are not public, but scholars say he had knowledge of massacres carried out by the government, citing telegrams he had received from officers in the field.
Ieng Sary’s surrender was welcomed by the government because it effectively brought an end to the Khmer Rouge as a fighting force, although some holdouts, including Pol Pot, remained in the jungles of northwest Cambodia.
www.nytimes.com /2007/11/13/world/asia/13cambo.html?ex=1352610000&en=bbbab6c9ce81bbfc&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (803 words)

  
 Tuesday, 13.11.2007: Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith Detained in Separate Rooms « The Mirror
Ieng Sary, who is known as the former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Kampuchea regime, and his wife Ms.
Ieng Sary and his wife at this time is based on an arrest warrant by co-investigating judges, for questioning and investigating them.
Ieng Sary was born in 1930 in Traninh, Khmer Kampuchea Krom in Southern Vietnam, and Ms.
cambodiamirror.wordpress.com /2007/11/14/tuesday-13112007-ieng-sary-and-ieng-thirith-detained-in-separate-rooms   (1474 words)

  
 Asiaweek.com
By one account, Ieng Sary was born in Vietnam's Tra Vinh province, the son of a Khmer landowner (not a peasant as he claims).
Ieng Sary was dispatched to Beijing to keep an eye on the prince, and Sihanouk quickly developed a profound loathing for him.
Ieng Sary retained his power base in the KR, by then part of the triple-faction resistance battling the Hanoi-installed regime in Phnom Penh.
www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/96/1227/cs6.html   (831 words)

  
 Al Jazeera English - Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ieng Sary, who could be prosecuted for crimes committed during the communist regime's brutal rule over Cambodia, was admitted to hospital in Thailand with a serious heart condition, his son said on Friday.
Ieng Sary, 76, is one of 10 former top Khmer Rouge cadres who could stand trial in a genocide tribunal expected to start later this year.
He was a member of the inner circle of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader, who is blamed for orchestrating one of the worst genocides of the 20th century.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/8E03C09F-8167-4DC4-913B-149E9A4F682E.htm   (301 words)

  
 Samey Pol Pot: The Pol Pot Time
Unknown to the populace in 1975, Pol Pot, Ieng Sary and their wives, Ta Mok, Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphon and a handful of cohorts followed their master plan to create a socialist utopia.
Recently, Ieng Sary, whose hands are as bloody as Pol Pot's, has been granted amnesty by Cambodia's King Sihanouk and the Royal Government.
Ieng Sary's pardon is an affront to the world.
www.mekong.net /cambodia/samey.htm   (2091 words)

  
 Khaleej Times Online - Ieng Sary: Face of Cambodia’s genocide
Ieng Sary, who served as the regime’s foreign minister, was also one of the biggest public supporters of the Khmer Rouge’s mass purges, researchers say.
Ieng Sary’s modest roots — he was born to a poor ethnic Khmer family in south Vietnam in 1929 -- proved a firm foundation for his later plunge into nationalist struggle.
Ieng Sary was also instructed to handle the Party’s international relations, and in 1975 was formally named foreign minister of the new regime.
www.khaleejtimes.com /Displayarticle.asp?section=newsmakers&xfile=data/newsmakers/2007/November/newsmakers_November12.xml   (764 words)

  
 CAMBODIA Ieng Sary, ex Khmer Rouge leader arrested - Asia News
Asia News CAMBODIA Ieng Sary, ex Khmer Rouge leader arrested cambodia khmer rouge pol pot un tribunal crimes against humanity He was taken together with his wife in a dawn raid.
Phnom Penh (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Jeng Sary, former Khmer Rouge Foreign minister and his wife Ieng Thirit were arrested this morning and are being brought to trial before the UN tribunal for the Cambodian genocide.
Ieng Sary's participation in crimes included planning, directing and coordinating the Khmer Rouge ''policies of forcible transfer, forced labour and unlawful killings”.
www.asianews.it /index.php?l=en&art=10770&size=A   (792 words)

  
 (5/18/98) Heart of Darkness
Ieng Sary and his troops -- 40-50 percent of the Khmer Rouge's total force -- defected from Pol Pot's leadership to the government in 1996.
Ieng Sary sold millions of dollars in gem and logging concessions in Pailin to Thai companies to support his fiefdom.
In this authoritarian environment, it was the consensus that Ieng Sary was innocent of allegations of genocide.
www.monitor.net /monitor/9805a/cambodiachange.html   (2954 words)

  
 July 3, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Khieu Thirith, the outgoing if less studious sister, married Ieng Sary, who was part of the brain trust under Pol Pot, then known by his given name, Saloth Sar.
Ieng Sary became foreign minister of Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge victory.
Khieu Thirith, then known by her married name, Ieng Thirith, became the minister of social affairs in a regime that became notorious for overworking the population, starving many to death and tearing apart families.
www.genocidewatch.org /CambodiaJuly3KhmerDies.htm   (486 words)

  
 Ieng Sary's Regime | Cambodian Genoocide Program
It is Ieng Sary’s revolutionary pseudonym, ‘Van,’ which appears frequently in the diary, followed by comments attributed to him.
In 1975-76, Ieng Sary, or ‘Van’, brother-in-law of Pol Pot, was no. 3 in the hierarchy of the ruling Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), after Pol Pot and Nuon Chea.
The first five, including Ieng Sary, were full members of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the CPK, the last two reportedly being candidate members.
www.yale.edu /cgp/iengsary.htm   (13878 words)

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