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Jul 07, 1926 Voat Kor, Cambodia Died on 04 Aug 2019 (aged 93)
Cambodian politician and war criminal
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About Nuon Chea
- Nuon Chea (Khmer: ??? ??; born Lao Kim Lorn; 7 July 1926 – 4 August 2019), also known as Long Bunruot (Khmer: ??? ????????) or Rungloet Laodi (?????? ????? Thai: ???????? ???????), was a Cambodian politician 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: ???????), 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 the crime of genocide in 2018.
- He died while serving his sentence in 2019.
