Nuon Chea
Nuon Chea | |
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នួន ជា | |
Chea in 2013 | |
| President of the Standing Committee of the Kampuchean People's Representative Assembly | |
| In office 13 April 1976 – 7 January 1979 | |
| President | Khieu Samphan |
| Deputy | Chhit Choeun |
| Leader | Pol Pot (General Secretary) |
| Preceded by | Tol Sat |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea | |
| Acting 27 September 1976 – 25 October 1976 | |
| President | Khieu Samphan |
| Leader | Pol Pot (General Secretary) |
| Preceded by | Pol Pot |
| Succeeded by | Pol Pot |
| Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea | |
| In office 30 September 1960 – 6 December 1981 | |
| General Secretary | Tou Samouth Pol Pot |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | None, party dissolved |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lao Kim Lorn 7 July 1926 |
| Died | 4 August 2019 (aged 93) |
| Resting place | Sala Krau, Pailin, Cambodia |
| Party | Communist Party of Kampuchea (1960–1981) |
| Other political affiliations | Communist Party of Siam |
| Spouse | Ly Kimseng |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Thammasat University |
| Criminal information | |
| Convictions | Crimes against humanity and genocide |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment (2014) |
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.