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Ieng Sary, reportedly living in " an opulent Phnom Penh villa surrounded by security guards and barbed wire " was arrested on November 12, 2007 in Phnom Penh on an arrest warrant from the Cambodia Tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Opposition to the government grew within the middle class and leftists including Paris-educated leaders like Son Sen, Ieng Sary, and Saloth Sar ( later known as Pol Pot ), who led an insurgency under the clandestine Communist Party of Kampuchea ( CPK ).
Pol Pot and Ieng Sary asserted their dominance over the Vietnamese-trained communists, many of whom were purged.
Within the CPK, the Paris-educated leadership — Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, Nuon Chea, and Son Sen — were in control.
It was the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan.
In 1996, a new political party the Democratic National Union Movement was formed by Ieng Sary, who was granted amnesty for all of his roles as the deputy leader of the Khmer Rouge.
Sihanouk habitually labelled local leftists the Khmer Rouge, a term that later came to signify the party and the state headed by Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphan, and their associates.
Ta Mok was the last leading member of the Khmer Rouge to remain at large in Cambodia ; other senior figures had died or already made immunity deals with the government of Hun Sen, including Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary.
The Khmer Rouge period ( 1975 – 1979 ) refers to the rule of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan and the Khmer Rouge Communist party over Cambodia, which the Khmer Rouge renamed as Democratic Kampuchea.
A niece of Ieng Sary was given a job as English translator for Radio Phnom Penh although her fluency in the language was relative.
The following month, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary visited Hanoi.
The seat was occupied by Thiounn Prasith, an old cadre of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary from their student days in Paris and one of the 21 attendees at the 1960 KPRP Second Congress.
In 1998, Pol Pot himself died, and other key KR leaders Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary surrendered to the government of Hun Sen in exchange for immunity from prosecution, leaving Ta Mok as the sole commander of the Khmer Rouge forces ; he was detained in 1999 for " crimes against humanity.
Sihanouk habitually labeled local leftists the Khmer Rouge, a term that later came to signify the party and the state headed by Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphan, and their associates.
Another member of the Paris student group was Ieng Sary.
Three of the Paris group forged a bond that survived years of revolutionary struggle and intraparty strife, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary married Khieu Ponnary and Khieu Thirith ( also known as Ieng Thirith ), purportedly relatives of Khieu Samphan.
At some time between 1949 and 1951, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary joined the French Communist Party, the most tightly disciplined and Stalinist of Western Europe's communist movements.
In 1952 Pol Pot, Hou Yuon, Ieng Sary, and other leftists gained notoriety by sending an open letter to Sihanouk calling him the " strangler of infant democracy.
His comrades, Ieng Sary and Hou Yuon, became teachers at a new private high school, the Lycée Kambuboth, which Hou Yuon helped to establish.
His ally, Nuon Chea ( also known as Long Reth ), became deputy general secretary ; however, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary were named to the Political Bureau to occupy the third and the fifth highest positions in the renamed party's hierarchy.
Although the prince still enjoyed the protection of the Chinese, when he made public appearances overseas to publicize the GRUNK cause, he was treated with almost open contempt by Ministers Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan.
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In 1952, along with Saloth Sar, Ieng Sary, and other leftists, Yuon gained notoriety by sending an open letter to the then-King Norodom Sihanouk calling him the " strangler of infant democracy.
However, after the Samlaut Uprising of 1967, Yuon was accused by Sihanouk of stirring up unrest, and threatened with arrest and possible execution: he fled to join the communist maquis, led by Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot ), Ieng Sary and Son Sen, in the forests.
From 1946 he attended a teacher training college in Phnom Penh, and in the 1950s received a scholarship to study in Paris, where he became a member of a Marxist group of Cambodian students centred on Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot ), Ieng Sary, and Hou Yuon.
Ieng and Phnom
He visited Phnom Penh as wall as Siem Reap, Kompong Thom, Kompong Cham and Takéo provinces and had an interview with Ieng Sary.
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One of Ieng Sary's daughters was appointed head of the Calmette Hospital although she had not graduated from secondary school.
Along with Ieng Sary, he was responsible for the North-Eastern Zone, the stronghold of the Party ' Centre '.
These were combined with a brutally ruthless streak ; Sen was reputed to have once been so angry with Foreign Minister Ieng Sary that he unsuccessfully attempted to have him murdered.
Ieng Sary (, born October 24, 1924, Tra Vinh, Vietnam ) was a powerful figure in the Khmer Rouge.
Ieng Sary was born in Hoa Lac hamlet, Nhan Hoa village, which is located the subdistrict of Luong Hoa ( also known as Loeung Va in Khmer ) Chau Thanh district in Tra Vinh province, Southern Vietnam in 1932.
Together with Pol Pot, Ieng Sary was sentenced to death in absentia after the Khmer Rouge had been overthrown in 1979.
His wife, Ieng Thirith, was also arrested for crimes against humanity.
Being a part of the coalition entitled the party to a position in the power-sharing cabinet and an important chair on a commission for the National Assembly ( e. g., Ieng Mouly was the Minister of Information, and Kem Sokha was chairman on the National Assembly ’ s Human Rights Commission.
However, this time it was not a disagreement between military and political control, but a conflict between two politicians: Son Sann and Ieng Mouly.
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This occurred one day after the former Khmer Rouge Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ieng Sary and his wife were arrested for war crimes committed while they were in power.
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Ieng Sary during a pre-trial detention hearing on 11 February 2010
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* Genocide in Cambodia: Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary ( edited, with Howard J. DeNike and Kenneth J. Robinson ), University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000
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Nuon Chea is presently in detention awaiting a United Nations trial for crimes against humanity for his role in the genocide ; three other former Khmer Rouge top-tier leaders are also awaiting trial with Nuon Chea: Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphan, and Ieng Thirith.
Sary and Phnom
Sary and Saloth Sar studied at Phnom Penh's Lycée Sisowath where their future wives, the sisters Khieu Thirith and Khieu Ponnary also studied.
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After independence, Nol's nationalist Khmer Renovation party ( along with small right-wing parties headed by Sam Sary and Dap Chhuon ) became the core of the Sangkum, the organisation set up by Sihanouk to fight the 1955 elections.
But in the year 795 A. H., the cities of Amol and Sary were plundered by Amir Teimoor Gurkani, and thereafter Amol suffered a setback.
The Soviet Union achieved the first nonnuclear intercept of a ballistic missile warhead by a missile at the Sary Shagan antiballistic missile defense test range on 4 March 1961.
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