Ieng Thirith

Ieng Thirith (née Khieu;David Chandler: "Voices from S-21", Chapter 3: "Choosing Enemies", p.69. University of California, 1999. "In mid-1976 Khieu Thirith, who was Ieng Sary's wife and Pol Pot's sister-in-law (...)" ; 10 March 1932Summons - Expert . Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: 18 August 2011. – 22 August 2015) was an important Cambodian figure and political criminal in the Khmer Rouge, but was neither a member of the Khmer Rouge Standing Committee nor of the Central Committee.ECCC, Co-Investigative Judges, Closing Order, 15 September 2010, para. 1207.  

Thirith was the widow of Ieng Sary, who was minister of foreign affairs of Democratic Kampuchea's Khmer Rouge regime. She served as Minister of Social Affairs from October 1975 until the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. 

Arrest
She was arrested & charged by the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in November 2007 with her husband, Ieng Sary, on suspicion of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. She was sentenced to house arrest. Her sentence was lifted in 2012 due to mental health.

Death
Thirith died from complications of Alzheimer's disease in Pailin at the age of 83.Obituary

References

Other websites

 Photos - on afp.google.com
 Cambodia Tribunal Monitor

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