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	Khieu Samphan Summary
		Born the eldest son of a Kompong Cham judge in 1933, Samphan attended the Collège Norodom Sihanouk and the Lycée Sisowath.
		Samphan occupied several important posts in the Democratic Kampuchea regime (1975–1979) and, after it was ousted by the Vietnamese, continued to represent the movement on the international stage.
		Khieu Samphan (born July 27 1931) was the president of the state presidium of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) from 1976 until 1979.
	www.bookrags.com /Khieu_Samphan (834 words)

	Cambodian Genocide Group (CGG)
		Khieu Samphan, who was the nominal head of the Khmer Rouge government, is a sign that he is feeling the heat.
		Khieu Samphan said he was shocked to learn of Khmer Rouge crimes from a documentary by a French-Cambodian filmmaker, Rithy Panh, which he said he saw in April.
		Khieu Samphan urged Cambodians to "let bygones be bygones." But under pressure from reporters at a news conference, he said he was "sorry, very sorry" for whatever had happened.
	www.cambodiangenocide.org /ignorance.htm (752 words)

	New Page 1
		Khieu Samphan has been the best-known intellectual voice among the Khmer Rouge as well as acting as their official representative and spokesman with consistent servile loyalty to Pol Pot's leadership.
		Khieu Samphan is believed to have been born in 1931 in Svay Rieng Province, the son of a local judge.
		Khieu Samphan, 69, talked to journalists last week for the first time since he defected to the government two years ago, but would speak only about his living conditions and not politics, a Khmer Rouge trial or any other topic that might be controversial.
	www.khmerkampongspeu.org /khieusamphan.htm (1196 words)

	Dance \| the Spirit of Cambodia \| Arts & Culture
		In 1991 and 1992, when Khieu Samphan was travelling around the world, making headlines, there was perhaps only a single soul in Phnom Penh who followed his doings with an interest that was not wholly political: his forty-nine-year-old younger brother, Khieu Seng Kim, who lives very close to the school of classical dance.
		Khieu Seng Kim was a child in 1950, when his brother, recently graduated from the Lycée Sisowath, left for Paris on a scholarship.
		Khieu Seng Kim became a man possessed: he could not believe that the brother he worshipped would abandon his family; at that time he was their only means of support.
	www.asiasource.org /cambodia/ghosh10.htm (1536 words)

	Khmer Rouge chief 'flees genocide trial' Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		Khieu Samphan, the former Khmer Rouge head of state, was seen leaving his home in north western Cambodia on Tuesday, a day after prosecutors began collecting evidence for the long a waited tribunal of the Khmer Rouge's former leaders.
		Khieu Samphan's daughter Rattana would not say why her father had left but said he and his wife had arrived in Battam-bang, about 50 miles from their home in Pailin, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold.
		Khieu Samphan departure is indicative of the apprehension surrounding the long-awaited tribunal, aimed at prosecuting leaders of the Khmer Rouge and those most responsible for the crimes committed during its rule from1975 to 1979.Whether justice will be achieved is difficult to predict.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060713/ai_n16529120 (666 words)

	Corpus Christi Online - / 2 Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for slayings
		Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea were flown by helicopter from a former rebel stronghold to the capital to, in effect, surrender to Hun Sen after he pledged they would not face trial for crimes against humanity.
		Khieu Samphan was the nominal Khmer Rouge leader, though he has been viewed as a front man for Pol Pot and others who held real power.
		Khieu Samphan's normally white hair was dyed fl in an apparent attempt at disguise.
	www.caller2.com /autoconv/newsworld98/newsworld227.html (763 words)

	Dance \| the Spirit of Cambodia \| Arts & Culture
		Khieu Seng Kim remembers Hou Yuon well; he was always in and out of the house, a part of the family.
		Since Khieu Samphan was known to be a particular friend of his, his scholarship was suspended too.
		For Khieu Samphan and Pol Pot, the deaths of Hou Yuon, Hu Nim and the thousands of others who were executed in torture chambers and execution grounds, were not a contradiction but rather a proof of their own idealism and ideological purity.
	www.asiasource.org /cambodia/ghosh11.htm (583 words)

	Khmer.org \| Ex-Khmer Rouge Leader Admits Genocide
		Khieu Samphan's surprising statement in an interview with The Associated Press is a major step in the long overdue effort to bring to justice those responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians during the ultra-leftist group's 1975-79 rule.
		But Khieu Samphan said he realized he could no longer ignore the Khmer Rouge's atrocities after he saw a documentary about the notorious S-21 prison, presented to him by a Cambodian-French filmmaker, Rithy Pan.
		He and Khieu Samphan surrendered to the government in December 1998, just a few months before the capture of Ta Mok, the former Khmer Rouge army chief, which capped the final collapse of the movement.
	www.khmer.org /us/doc/doc889.htm (651 words)

	Yale > Genocide Studies Program > Implication and Accountability
		Heder suddenly began to suggest that the case against Khieu Samphan was inadequate: "There are cases to be answered by Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary, but on the available documentary evidence you have to be less confident they would ever be convicted...
		Khieu Samphan is recorded in the minutes (under his revolutionary name Hem) as having attended 12 of these 15 meetings.
		From 1975 to 1979, Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary were top-level officials of a genocidal regime.
	www.yale.edu /gsp/publications/impaccount.html (1204 words)

	Cambodia - COALITION GOVERNMENT OF DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA
		Khieu Samphan, president of the State Presidium of the defunct regime of Democratic Kampuchea, proposed that Son Sann join forces with the Khmer Rouge on a common political platform.
		Meanwhile, Khieu Samphan urged his rivals not to undermine the autonomy of the Khmer Rouge or to undo the legal status of Democratic Kampuchea.
		In what was described as "another concession," Khieu Samphan elaborated the position that his side would not attempt to integrate the other resistance groups into "the Democratic Kampuchean institutions." He emphasized, however, that the others must accept and defend the "legal status" of Democratic Kampuchea as a UN member state.
	countrystudies.us /cambodia/72.htm (2449 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was the first time Khieu Samphan had commented on his alleged role under a regime which allegedly killed 1.7 million people through genocide, starvation and illness.
		Hun Sen said it was difficult to understand how Khieu Samphan knew nothing of the atrocities committed given that he was head of state between 1976 and 1979.
		Khieu Samphan was a Marxist intellectual in the 1950s in France where he obtained a degree from the University of Montpellier and was awarded a doctorate in economic sciences from the University of Paris.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0108/22/eng1.htm (546 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Asia
		Khieu Samphan, the former Khmer Rouge head of state, was seen leaving his home in northwestern Cambodia on Tuesday, a day after prosecutors began collecting evidence for the long-awaited tribunal of the Khmer Rouge's former leaders.
		Khieu Samphan's daughter Rattana would not say why her father had left but said he and his wife had arrived in Battambang, about 50 miles from their home in Pailin, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold.
		Khieu Samphan departure is indicative of the apprehension surrounding the long-awaited tribunal, aimed at prosecuting leaders of the Khmer Rouge and those most responsible for the crimes committed during its rule from 1975 to 1979.
	news.independent.co.uk /world/asia/article1174082.ece (620 words)

	Khmer Rouge
		The Standing Committee of the Central Committee ("Party Center") comprised Pol Pot, Nuon Chea[?], Ta Mok, Khieu Samphan[?], Ke Pauk[?], Ieng Sary[?], Son Sen[?], Yun Yat[?], and Ieng Thirith[?].
		In 1985 Khieu Samphan[?] officially succeeded Pol Pot as head of the Khmer Rouge.
		Pol Pot died in April 1998, and Khieu Samphan surrendered in December 1998.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/kh/Khmer_Rouges.html (790 words)

	Khieu Samphan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Khieu Samphan was born July 27, 1931 in Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia; the son of a judge.
		In June 1962 Khieu Samphan was elected as deputy to the National Assembly, and accepted a government post as state secretary in the Ministry of Commerce.
		On December 25, 1998 Khieu Samphan with Nuon Chea surrendered to the Cambodian government; they were warmly received by the government leader and allowed to live free in the semi-autonomous region run by Ieng Sary.
	angkor1431.tripod.com /index/id30.html (1125 words)

	Cambodia - Society under the Angkar
		Sihanouk writes that in 1975 he, Khieu Samphan, and Khieu Thirith went to visit Zhou Enlai, who was gravely ill. Zhou warned them not to attempt to achieve communism suddenly by one "great leap forward" without intermediate steps, as China had done with disastrous results in the late 1950s.
		Khieu Samphan and Khieu Thirith "just smiled an incredulous and superior smile." Khieu Samphan and Son Sen later boasted to Sihanouk that "we will be the first nation to create a completely communist society without wasting time on intermediate steps."
		Pol Pot's wife, Khieu Ponnary, was head of the Association of Democratic Khmer Women and her younger sister, Khieu Thirith, served as minister of social action.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-2100.html (1429 words)

	FOCUS: French lawyer to defend ex-Khmer Rouge leader Asian Political News - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Khieu Samphan, who was also present in a rare contact with the press, said he and Verges both studied at Sorbonne University in Paris in the early 1950s.
		Khieu Samphan, 75, is the first former Khmer Rouge leader to retain the services of a foreign lawyer.
		Khieu Samphan said he has no idea what kind of charges will be brought against him at the tribunal for Pol Pot's top surviving henchmen.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2006_Sept_4/ai_n16704105 (831 words)

	David Chandler update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1962, Samphan and several other left-wing figures were hand-picked by Sihanouk as candidates for the one-party National Assembly, along with a slate of more conservative candidates beholden to the Prince.
		In April 1976, Khieu Samphan was named by his CPK minders to replace Prince Sihanouk as Cambodia's ceremonial chief of state.
		For many years, Samphan made no effort to find out about the excesses of DK because he was convinced of the patriotism of its leaders and the regime's capacity to set in motion programs that might maintain Cambodia's independence.
	p207.ezboard.com /fandybrouwerscambodiacommunityfrm1.showMessage?topicID=1173.topic (1983 words)

	Khieu Samphan \| Scienca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Vor dem Hintergrund ideologischer Auseinandersetzungen innerhalb der Roten Khmer und der Perspektivlosigkeit ihrer Politik ergab sich Khieu Samphan 1998 der Hun Sen-Regierung in Phnom Penh und wurde von dieser amnestiert.
		2003 erklärte Khieu Samphan öffentlich in einem sechsseitigen Brief, er erkenne die Tatsache eines Genozids in der Zeit der Herrschaft der Roten Khmer im nachhinein zwar an, habe davon jedoch weder gewusst noch sei er dafür verantwortlich gewesen.
		Khieu Samphan: Die Wirtschaft Kambodschas und die Probleme seiner Industrialisierung.
	www.scienca.de /wiki/Khieu_Samphan (303 words)

	CNN - Apology from two 'killing fields' leaders - December 29, 1998
		Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, who defected last week, had earlier expressed no remorse but then issued an apology during a hostile news conference, when asked whether they felt any remorse for causing so many deaths of their countrymen.
		Khieu Samphan was the nominal leader of the Khmer Rouge, though he is generally viewed as a front-man for those with real power.
		Earlier Tuesday, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea arrived in the Cambodian capital to be greeted with hugs and smiles by Hun Sen.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9812/29/cambodia.02/index.html (742 words)

	FOXNews.com - Kids: Ex-Khmer Rouge Leader Didn't Flee
		Khieu Samphan, 75, the former Khmer Rouge head of state, left his home in northwestern Cambodia before dawn Tuesday in a pickup truck packed with household goods.
		His daughter, Khieu Rattana, declined to specify exactly where her parents had gone but said Wednesday they had arrived in Battambang province, 55 miles from their home in Pailin, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold.
		Khieu Samphan has lived in Pailin since 1999, along with several other former Khmer Rouge officials.
	www.foxnews.com /printer_friendly_wires/2006Jul12/0,4675,CambodiaKhmerRouge,00.html (425 words)

	CNN - Cambodian officials weigh trial for Khmer Rouge leaders - December 27, 1998
		Khieu Samphan and Noun Chea will travel to Phnom Penh next week to meet with Prime Minister Hun Sen, government officials said.
		Khieu Samphan was the smiling, polite figurehead put forward as head of state of what was called Democratic Kampuchea.
		"Khieu Samphan's political star rose literally on heaps of corpses," said Steven Heder, an expert on the Khmer Rouge at London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9812/27/cambodia.01/index.html (727 words)

	ABC News: Former Khmer Rouge Leader Leaves Home
		Khieu Samphan, 75, is among the handful of Khmer Rouge members expected to be prosecuted for atrocities committed during their reign of terror in the 1970s.
		His daughter, Khieu Rattana, said that he and his wife left their home in Pailin, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in northwestern Cambodia, to spend about two weeks visiting a friend in Battambang province, about 55 miles to the east.
		Khieu Samphan was the head of state of the Khmer Rouge regime, whose reign of terror between 1975-79 left some 1.7 million people dead from starvation, disease, overwork and execution.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2176769&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (324 words)

	The Irrawaddy On-line Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Khieu Samphan said he had been in contact with Verges for a long time and had requested his help.
		Khieu Samphan said he has known Verges since he was a student in France in the 1950s, when the two were active in student movements against the French war in Vietnam and French colonialism.
		In a surprise announcement in December, Khieu Samphan admitted for the first time that mass murders occurred under his regime, but he denied any involvement in the killings.
	www.irrawaddy.org /news/2004/feb10.html (602 words)

	MEANWHILE : The quiet retirement of Pol Pot's cronies
		Khieu Samphan, the 72-year-old former head of state of Democratic Kampuchea, has just published a memoir that, surprisingly, is a best seller among his former victims.
		In 1980, I interviewed Khieu Samphan in the forested Dangrek Mountains after Khmer Rouge troops had been pushed out of the capital, Phnom Penh, and into the countryside by the invading Vietnamese Army.
		Like Khieu Samphan, he denies any wrongdoing, and attributes Cambodia's problems to the United States, particularly former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for overthrowing King Norodom Sihanouk, slaughtering Cambodians with secret bombing, and extending the Vietnam War into Cambodia.
	www.iht.com /articles/2004/04/17/edpringle_ed3__0.php (687 words)

	He has no remorse » 7DAYS General and Local News, Dubai, Abu Dhabi UAE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Khieu Samphan, the former head of state for the Khmer Rouge, and his wife left their home in northwestern Cambodia in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday in a pick-up truck packed with household goods.
		The suspicion is that Khieu Samphan, 75, has absconded to avoid prosecution for atrocities committed during the regime’s brutal reign of terror in the 1970s.
		His daughter, Khieu Rattana, said her parents they were visiting friends in Battambang province, about 90 kilometres from their home in Pailin, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in northwestern Cambodia.
	www.7days.ae /2006/07/13/he-has-no-remorse.html (340 words)

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