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	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Cambodia - Pol Pot's Shadow . Reporter's Diary: In Search of Justice . Pailin . Brother Number Two \| ...
		Nuon Chea is a shadowy figure even in an organization famed for its secrecy and paranoia.
		Nuon Chea now lives next door to another high-ranking Khmer Rouge leader, Khieu Samphan, the longtime public image of the regime.
		Nuon Chea strode slowly and confidently, surveying his new domain, lazily waving a fan in front of him.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/diary10.html (1051 words)

	KI Media: Nuon Chea Says He's Preparing for Prison
		Nuon Chea says that he has "prepared [his] stance," which to anyone but former Khmer Rouge leaders, who regularly deny the brutality of their regime, would more accurately mean that he has prepared his defense.
		The villa where Nuon Chea spent a recent weekend attending a family gathering and party, may, according to the researchers, have been bought with the ill-gotten gains of the bloody Khmer Rouge regime and should be fair game for confiscation by the tribunal.
		Nuon Chea's conversation about the past and his recollections of Democratic Kampuchea appear to have become more legalistically refined, and his answers and tone of delivery feel at times like a test run for his imminent day in the ECCC dock.
	ki-media.blogspot.com /2006/08/nuon-chea-says-hes-preparing-for.html (2128 words)

	SEAmedia.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The remarks by Nuon Chea at his home in the far west town of Pailin came as Cambodians and the international community wait to see which, or even if, surviving ex-Khmer Rouge leaders will be brought to account for the deaths of at least 1.7 million Cambodians during their 1975-1979 reign of terror.
		Nuon Chea insisted he was not involved one of the 20th century's worst episodes of mass murder, claiming instead that "enemies" orchestrated from outside were behind the genocide.
		Nuon Chea even asserted that he and Pol Pot were unaware of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison in central Phnom Penh, where some 15,000 prisoners were tortured and forced to "confess" to real or imagined transgressions before being marched out to the killing fields.
	www.seamedia.org /cambodia.php?story_id=196 (939 words)

	Bangkok Post Breaking News
		However, they added that the sharply increased police presence was for Nuon Chea's own protection and stressed that he was not under house arrest and was free to seek hospital treatment should he request it.
		Media reports in mid-July claiming Nuon Chea and another Pailin resident, former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan - both prime candidates for indictment in an upcoming trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders - were flight risks were strongly denied by the government and local leaders.
		Nuon Chea, also known as "Brother Number Two," was deputy general secretary of the Communist Party and chief lieutenant to Pol Pot but was never jailed after he made a deal and surrendered to the government in 1998.
	www.bangkokpost.net /breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=112204 (551 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Pol Pot deputy gives trial evidence
		Nuon Chea - once known as "Brother Number Two" and the most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader - told a court on Friday that the defendant had been transferred out of the region where the killings took place shortly before they occurred.
		The 77-year-old Nuon Chea - who rarely appears in public and was not expected to testify - said Sam Bith had complained of health problems in the spring of 1994.
		Khmer Rouge General Nuon Paet was jailed for life in June 1999 for his role in the case.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2571833.stm (446 words)

	Khmer Rouge No. 2 Nuon Chea says he supports democracy but has no regrets for past
		Nuon Chea, the former No. 2 of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, received VIP treatment as he voted Sunday in parliamentary elections after saying he has no regrets for his past.
		Nuon Chea's name was missing from the registration list, apparently the result of a clerical error, but he was still allowed to vote because he is well known in the town, a Khmer Rouge stronghold, said an election official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
		Nuon Chea would be a prime candidate for prosecution if a planned U.N.-assisted tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge for genocide gets off the ground.
	theory.stanford.edu /~iliano/pictures/2003/thailand/AP/chea.html (686 words)

	Nuon Chea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The government under Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to forsake attempts to prosecute Chea; a decision that was condemned by Cambodians and the international community.
		The contrition in Chea's brief words of sorrow were cast in doubt by the opinion of documentary journalist, Phil Rees, who interviewed Chea for "Brother Number Two Enjoys Retirement" a BBC documentary broadcast on March 17, 2002.
		Nuon Chea: I don't know who they are because the situation was very chaotic.
	nuon-chea.iqnaut.net (515 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Correspondent \| Brother Number Two enjoys retirement
		Nuon Chea, known as Brother Number Two, served as Pol Pot's ideologue and loyal lieutenant for more than thirty years.
		Nuon Chea is the most senior surviving member of the regime that ordered the turmoil that led to the killing fields from 1975-79.
		Nuon Chea brazenly claims to know nothing about the carnage that took place around him - a crass denial, stomach wrenching in its absurdity.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/correspondent/1874949.stm (938 words)

	NGO Forum- The Nuon Paet Case
		Nuon Paet disappeared from Kampot in 1996 as the guerilla movement began disintegrating from mass defections, and was widely known to be living in Pailin, western Cambodia.
		Nuon Paet was arrested last August, accused of the 1994 kidnap and murder of three western backpackers who were grabbed from a train on its way to the seaside resort of Sihanoukville.
		Nuon Paet was found guilty on all charges: illegal detention, terrorist activities, being an accomplice to murder, forming an armed group for the purpose of robbery and destruction of public property.
	www.ngoforum.org.kh /Documents/Others/Nuon_Paet_Case.htm (7410 words)

	Khmer Rouge No. 2 Nuon Chea unsure if he will vote in elections
		Nuon Chea, the former No. 2 leader of the communist Khmer Rouge, says democracy is good for Cambodia but is not sure if he himself will vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday.
		Nuon Chea agreed that democracy is good for the country.
		Y Chhean says people like Nuon Chea and the group's nominal leader, Khieu Samphan, who both defected to the government in the late 1990s, should be left alone.
	theory.stanford.edu /~iliano/pictures/2003/thailand/AP/vote.html (617 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		During their heyday, when Nuon Chea served as the movement's ideologue and Pol Pot's close comrade, the Khmer Rouge emptied cities, abolished money and closed schools and hospitals in an attempt to create an agrarian utopia.
		Pol Pot and Nuon Chea, born of a wealthy Sino-Cambodian family and educated in Thailand, became brothers-in-revolution in the 1950s.
		Nuon Chea, known as Brother No. 2, spent most of his life shrouded in self-imposed secrecy.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/front/archives/2004/01/19/2003091941/print (538 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - World - Khmer Rouge No. 2 Admits "Mistakes"
		Nuon Chea didn't go nearly as far as his comrade, Khieu Samphan, who admitted in December that genocide took place but denied ordering killings or knowing the extent of the regime's brutality.
		Nuon Chea said the number of people who died was not in the millions.
		Nuon Chea, born of a wealthy Chinese-Cambodian family and educated in Thailand, said that the overthrow of King Norodom Sihanouk by the U.S.-backed Lon Nol led to the Khmer Rouge storming into Phnom Penh in 1975.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=12014 (812 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.
		Nuon Chea, asked who was to blame for the massacres, said: "Let's consider that an old issue.
		Nuon Chea was making his first visit to the capital since the 1979 Vietnamese invasion that overthrew the Khmer Rouge.
	www.caller2.com /autoconv/newsworld98/newsworld227.html (763 words)

	+Khmer Rouge's Nuon Chea plans to defend self at trial Asian Political News - Find Articles
		Nuon Chea, 77, who was also known as ''Brother No. 2'' in Khmer Rouge led by the late Pol Pot, said he has insufficient money to hire a lawyer, while lawyers might lack adequate knowledge about the ''very complicated situation'' during the Khmer Rouge's rule.
		Nuon Chea, who suffers from a heart ailment and hypertension, said he is concerned his health ''will be my weakness'' when it comes to defending himself before the court, though he said he exercises daily by walking and doing stretches.
		Both Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan have denied any role in acts of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the period of Khmer Rouge rule, when at least 1.7 millions Cambodians are estimated to have died from executions, torture, malnutrition, treatable illnesses and overwork.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2003_Dec_22/ai_111501360 (447 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Key Khmer rouge leader staged illness to avoid publicty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Nuon Chea is likely to be one of six primary defendants, accused by scholars of crimes against humanity, in the United Nations backed tribunal against the regime's bosses.
		His son, Lath Lina told AFP that Nuon Chea told his wife to tell journalists he was in hospital, so he wouldn't face a barrage of questions.
		Nuon Chea was Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's right-hand man throughout the "Killing Fields" regime which oversaw the deaths of up to two million people between 1975 and 1979.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1387817.htm (332 words)

	Nuon Chea declares himself Khmer Rouge 'Brother No. 2' Asian Political News - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Nuon Chea made the admission during second-day testimony in the trial of former military comrade Sam Bith, who is charged with killing three western backpackers and 13 Cambodians after a train ambush in 1994.
		Nuon Chea, 77, who rarely appeared in public during his long political career, allowed he ranked second only to Pol Pot in the regime that massacred at least 1.7 million Cambodians during its ''Killing Fields'' rule over Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
		Nuon Chea was testifying as a star witness for Sam Bith, 69, the former Khmer Rouge military chief in Cambodia's southwest.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2002_Dec_16/ai_95463039 (515 words)

	BREAKING NEWS
		HONG KONG - Khmer Rouge No. 2 Nuon Chea, who is living freely in western Cambodia, was in direct command of the movement's killing machine during its 1975-79 reign of terror, the former executioner known as "Duch" told the REVIEW in a series of exclusive interviews.
		Nuon Chea is inaccessible to journalists, making it impossible to seek comment on Duch's allegations.
		"Nuon Chea ordered me to burn their bodies with tyres to leave no bones." The victims were from America, Australia, Britain, France and New Zealand, theoretically making their killers indictable in their countries of origin.
	www.feer.com /breaking_news/duch2.html (961 words)

	CNN - Khmer Rouge leaders surrender - December 26, 1998
		Nuon Chea was the official No. 2 to the reviled Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, who died of an apparent heart attack on April 15 this year in a small village in northern Cambodia.
		Nuon Chea has been described by historians as the Khmer Rouge's ideological guru, responsible for many of bloody purges the group carried out.
		Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea had previously been believed to be hiding in remote rugged jungle on Cambodia's poorly defined northern border with Thailand.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9812/26/cambodia.01 (763 words)

	Khmer Forum - Cambodia Forum: Khmer Rouge # Two Man Claims he is Ready to Stand Trial - Cambodian Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Nuon Chea is 80 years old, has four children, and 10 grand children.
		Nuon Chea gladly receives the stringers, but does not want to have his voice recorded nor his picture taken.
		Nuon Chea did not say what country supports Pol Pot regime, but that the Democratic Kampuchea has a seat at the U.N. He says that before the court shows any evidences, the number of people (perished during the regime) should not be mentioned.
	www.cambodiaforum.com /index.php?showtopic=6241 (870 words)

	NeanderNews » Pol Pot’s ‘Brother No. 2′
		Chea, known as Brother No. 2., is set to go on trial in a tribunal set to start in June.
		Nuon Chea is the most senior surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge, the Cambodian utopian movement that swept to power in 1975 behind revolutionary Pol Pot, known as Brother No. 1, and led one of the 20th Century’s most extreme and enigmatic frenzies of bloodletting.
		Pol Pot died in 1998, never prosecuted, and Nuon Chea and others say they are ready to explain their actions in the upcoming tribunal.
	www.neandernews.com /?p=95 (321 words)

	6 November 2006
		A claim against Nuon Chea is particularly possible because of the availability of evidence against him compared to the other defendants.
		Additionally, Nuon Chea might attempt to argue that some civilians (or all) of the civilians in Tuol Sleng forfeited their rights under the Fourth Convention because they confessed to being spies for the Vietnamese government.
		At trial Nuon Chea will likely claim that he was only in charge of the National Assembly, not Tuol Sleng, and that he had virtually no decision-making power.
	www.genocidewatch.org /CambodiaMemorandumProsecutingNuonCheaForKRWarCrimes6Nov2006.htm (3606 words)

	The Cambodia Daily WEEKEND
		Panicked, Nuon Chea looked to his wife, Ly Kim Seng, who was already on her feet and moving toward the doorway shooing away the photographer, saying in Khmer that her husband was busy.
		Matching this growing sophistication, Nuon Chea's conversation about the past and his recollections of Democratic Kampuchea appear to have become more legalistically refined and his answers and tone of delivery feel at times like a test run for his imminent day in the ECCC dock.
		Interviewed in 2004, Nuon Chea explained the atrocities of the regime in terms similar to that of a political omelet, where eggs needed to be broken to make the perfect dish.
	www.camnet.com.kh /cambodia.daily/selected_features/cd-2-8-2006.htm (1798 words)

	The Cambodia Daily WEEKEND
		Nuon Chea has said little in public about the 30 years he spent at the right hand of Pol Pot.
		But there's no doubt Nuon Chea will be directly in the cross hairs of the Khmer Rouge tribunal, no matter what form it eventually takes.
		Nuon Chea says the photo is a gift from his son.
	www.camnet.com.kh /cambodia.daily/selected_features/cam_noun.htm (1191 words)

	asahi.com：Asia/Newsmaker Pol Pot's No. 2 says he didn't order killings - ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Nuon Chea, the most senior surviving member of the Khmer Rouge, is likely to stand trial for crimes against humanity in the first internationally recognized tribunal of Khmer Rouge leaders, planned for next year.
		Nuon Chea and other senior cadre, along with Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan, live freely and in relative comfort.
		Nuon Chea acknowledged that as a leader he was responsible--to some degree.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200607190123.html (676 words)

	New Statesman - Still smiling after all those deaths
		Nuon Chea displayed no remorse when we discussed his role in the deaths of 1.7 million people - nearly a quarter of the Cambodian nation.
		Nuon Chea would claim that, although many died of starvation during his rule, the most culpable murderer was the then US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger.
		Perhaps there is more truth in what Nuon Chea is saying than we should be comfortable with.
	www.newstatesman.com /200203180020 (1253 words)

	buddh•ism ad•junkt › Nuon Chea
		In 2004, authors Stephen Heder and Brian Tittemore named Nuon Chea as the first of seven candidates “most responsible” for the crimes committed between 1975 and 1979.
		Yet Nuon Chea is a free man. And after 28 years of impunity, Brother No 2 expresses little concern for consequences — be it at the hands of the courts, karma or the Cambodian people.
		Nuon Chea spoke to Stephan Haselberger, reporter for Berlin’s Der Tagesspiegel, about his role in the mass killings of the Khmer Rouge, and what he plans to tell his grandchildren about the past.
	leahbowe.com /deathpower/2007/01/23/nuon-chea (1174 words)

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