Ieng Sary
Ieng Sary was a cofounder and senior member of the Khmer Rouge. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea led by Pol Pot and served in the 197579 government of Democratic Kampuchea as foreign minister and deputy prime minister. He was known as Brother Number Three as he was third in command after Pol Pot and Nuon Chea. His wife, Ieng Thirith , served in the Khmer Rouge government as social affairs minister. Ieng Sary was arrested in 2007 and was charged with crimes against humanity but died of heart failure before the case against him could be brought to a verdict.
Ieng Sary was born in Nhan Hoa village, which is located in the subdistrict of Luong Hoa , Chu Thnh District, Tr Vinh Province, southern Vietnam in 1925. His father, Kim Riem was a Khmer Krom while his mother Tran Thi Loi, was a Chinese immigrant who moved to Vietnam with her parents when she was a little girl. However, during his trial in 2011, it was stated that his mother was of mixed Vietnamese and Chinese descent. Sary changed his name from the Vietnamese Kim Trang when he joined the Khmer Rouge. He was the brotherinlaw by marriage of the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot . Sary and Saloth Sar studied at Phnom Penhs Lyce Sisowath where their future wives, the sisters Khieu Thirith and Khieu Ponnary also studied. Before leaving Cambodia to study in Paris, Sary was engaged to Khieu Thirith.
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