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Nuon Chea

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Also known as Lau Kim Korn, Long Bunruot, Rungloet Laodi, Brother Number Two

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
Alma mater
Thammasat University
Convictions
Crimes against humanity and genocide
Criminal penalty
Life imprisonment (2014)

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Nuon Chea
date of birth
1926-07-07
name in native language
នួន ជា
pseudonym
Qardaş nömrə iki
birth name
Lau Kim Lorn
date of death
2019-08-04
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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.

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