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Nuon Chea

Cambodian politician and convicted war criminal (1926-2019)

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President: Khieu Samphan
Deputy: Chhit Choeun
Leader: Pol Pot ( General Secretary )
Preceded by: Tol Sat
Succeeded by: Position abolished
General secretary: Tou Samouth , Pol Pot
Born: Lao Kim Lorn , ( 1926-07-07 ) 7 July 1926, Voat Kor , Battambang , Cambodia , French Indochina
Died: 4 August 2019 (2019-08-04) (aged 93), Phnom Penh , Cambodia
Resting place: Sala Krau , Pailin , Cambodia
Party: Communist Party of Kampuchea (1960–1981)
Other political affiliations: Communist Party of Siam
Spouse: Ly Kimseng
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Nuon Chea (Khmer: នួន ជា; born Lao Kim Lorn; 7 July 1926 – 4 August 2019), also known as Long Bunruot (ឡុង ប៊ុនរត្ន) or Rungloet Laodi (រុងឡឺត ឡាវឌី; Thai: รุ่งเลิศ เหล่าดี), was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who was the chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge. He also briefly served as acting Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea. He was commonly known as "Brother Number Two" (បងធំទី២), as he was second-in-command to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, General Secretary of the Party, during the Cambodian genocide of 1975–1979. In 2014, Nuon Chea received a life sentence for crimes against humanity, alongside another top-tier Khmer Rouge leader, Khieu Samphan, and a further trial convicted him of genocide in 2018. These life sentences were merged into a single life sentence by the Trial Chamber on 16 November 2018. He died while serving his sentence in 2019.

Early life