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Nuon Chea
Sign in to saveAlso known as Lau Kim Korn, Long Bunruot, Rungloet Laodi, Brother Number Two
Cambodian politician and convicted war criminal (1926-2019)
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Known for
- Enemies of the People2009
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Key facts
- 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
- Alma mater
- Thammasat University
- Convictions
- Crimes against humanity and genocide
- Criminal penalty
- Life imprisonment (2014)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Liu
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cambodia
- Place of death
- Phnom Penh
- Occupation
- revolutionary
- Position held
- Prime Minister of Cambodia
- Educated at
- Thammasat University
- Political party
- Communist Party of Indochina
- Languages spoken
- Khmer
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Image
- Nuon Chea on 31 October 2013.jpg
- Number of children
- 4
- Convicted of
- Cambodian genocide
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- Commons category
- Nuon Chea
- date of birth
- 1926-07-07
- name in native language
- នួន ជា
- penalty
- life imprisonment
- pseudonym
- Qardaş nömrə iki
- birth name
- Lau Kim Lorn
- date of death
- 2019-08-04
- place of burial
- Pailin Province
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Encyclopedic overview
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
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