Nuon Chea

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Nuon Chea was a senior Khmer Rouge leader and chief ideologue who served as Pol Pot’s deputy and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in Cambodia’s genocidal regime.

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Nuon Chea canonical 2
Nuon Chea Lau Kim Lorn 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cambodian politician
Khmer Rouge leader
communist politician
convicted war criminal
human
activeYears 1960s–1990s
alsoKnownAs Brother Number Two
Long Reth
Nuon Chea
surface form: Nuon Chea Lau Kim Lorn
birthName Lau Kim Lorn
causeOfDeath natural causes
chargedWith crimes against humanity
genocide against the Cham Muslims
genocide against the Vietnamese
war crimes
convictedBy Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
convictedOf crimes against humanity
genocide
war crimes
countryOfCitizenship Cambodia
dateOfBirth 1926-07-07
dateOfConviction 2014-08-07
2018-11-16
dateOfDeath 2019-08-04
educatedAt Thammasat University
employer Democratic Kampuchea
surface form: Democratic Kampuchea government
era Cold War
ethnicGroup Chinese Cambodian
fieldOfStudy law
legalStatus sentenced to life imprisonment
movement Khmer Rouge
surface form: Khmer Rouge movement

Maoism
communism
notableAssociate Ieng Sary
Khieu Samphan
Pol Pot
notableFor being Pol Pot’s deputy
being the chief ideologue of the Khmer Rouge
his role in Cambodia’s genocidal regime
notableWork formulation of Khmer Rouge ideology
perpetrated crimes against humanity in Cambodia
enslavement
extermination
imprisonment
other inhumane acts
persecution on political grounds
persecution on racial grounds
persecution on religious grounds
torture
placeOfBirth Battambang
surface form: Voat Kor, Battambang Province, Cambodia
placeOfDeath Phnom Penh
surface form: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
placeOfDetention Kandal Province, Cambodia
politicalParty Communist Party of Kampuchea
Khmer Rouge
positionHeld Deputy Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea
Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
President of the People’s Assembly of Democratic Kampuchea
chief ideologue of the Khmer Rouge
roleInEvent architect of Khmer Rouge policies leading to mass killings
senior leader in the Cambodian genocide

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Cambodian Civil War keyFigure Nuon Chea
Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea
Nuon Chea alsoKnownAs Nuon Chea
this entity surface form: Nuon Chea Lau Kim Lorn