Nuon Chea | |
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នួន ជា | |
 Chea in 2013 | |
| President of the Standing Committee of the Kampuchean People's Representative Assembly | |
| In office 13 April 1976 – 7 January 1979 | |
| President | Khieu Samphan |
| Deputy | Chhit Choeun |
| Leader | Pol Pot (General Secretary) |
| Preceded by | Tol Sat |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea | |
| Acting 27 September 1976 – 25 October 1976 | |
| President | Khieu Samphan |
| Leader | Pol Pot (General Secretary) |
| Preceded by | Pol Pot |
| Succeeded by | Pol Pot |
| Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea | |
| In office 30 September 1960 – 6 December 1981 | |
| General Secretary | Tou Samouth Pol Pot |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | None, party dissolved |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lao Kim Lorn 7 July 1926 Voat Kor, Battambang, Cambodia, French Indochina |
| Died | 4 August 2019 (aged 93) Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
| Resting place | Sala Krau, Pailin, Cambodia |
| Nationality |  French Indochina (1926–1941) Thailand (1941–1960) Cambodia (1960–2019) |
| Political party |  Communist Party of Kampuchea (1960–1981) |
| Other political affiliations |  Communist Party of Siam[1] |
| Spouse | Ly Kimseng[2] |
| Children | 4[3] |
| Alma mater | Thammasat University |
| Conviction(s) | Crimes against humanity and genocide |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment (2014) |
Nuon Chea (Khmer: នួន ជា; born Lao Kim Lorn;[1] 7 July 1926 – 4 August 2019), also known as Long Bunruot (Khmer: ឡុង ប៊ុនរត្ន) or Rungloet Laodi (រុងឡឺត ឡាវឌី Thai: รุ่งเลิศ เหล่าดี),[4] was a Cambodian communist 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" (Khmer: 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.[5] He died while serving his sentence in 2019.
- ^ a b "NUON Chea". Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ Provisional Detention Order (Ordonnance de placement en détention provisoire), Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, retrieved 7 August 2009 Archived 15 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
postwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ รู้หรือไม่? "นวน เจีย" จำเลยฆ่าล้างเผ่าพันธุ์ชาวเขมร เคยเรียนมหาวิทยาลัยใดในเมืองไทย. Matichon (in Thai). 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ Khuon, Narim; Khy, Sovuthy (5 August 2019). "Brother Number 2 Nuon Chea dies at 93". Khmer Times. Retrieved 21 February 2021.