On April 14, after its first session, the PRA announced that Khieu Samphan would chair the State Presidium for a 5-year term.

* 1931 – Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician

It was the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan.

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.

Jacques Vergès ( born 5 March 1925 ) is a French-Vietnamese lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of well-known clients from anticolonialist Algerian militant Djamila Bouhired ( his future wife ) in 1957-1962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan ( 2008 ).

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.

Sihanouk writes that in 1975 he, Khieu Samphan, and Khieu Thirith went to visit Zhou Enlai, who was gravely ill. Zhou warned them not to attempt to achieve communism in a single step, as China had attempted in the late 1950s with the Great Leap Forward.

Khieu Samphan and Khieu Thirith " just smiled an incredulous and superior smile.

" Khieu Samphan and Son Sen later boasted to Sihanouk that " we will be the first nation to create a completely communist society without wasting time on intermediate steps.

Far more than the Chinese communists, the Khmer Rouge pursued the ideal of economic self-sufficiency, specifically the version that Khieu Samphan had outlined in his 1959 doctoral dissertation.

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.

Hu Nim and Hou Yuon served in several ministries between 1958 and 1963, and Khieu Samphan served briefly as secretary of state for commerce in 1963.

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.

Khieu Samphan, considered " one of the most brilliant intellects of his generation ", was born in 1931 and specialized in economics and politics during his time in Paris.

Two of them, Khieu Samphan and Hou Yuon, earned doctorates from the University of Paris ; Hu Nim obtained his degree from the University of Phnom Penh in 1965.

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.

In 1956, however, Hou Yuon and Khieu Samphan helped to establish a new group, the Khmer Students ' Union.

The doctoral dissertations written by Hou Yuon and Khieu Samphan express basic themes that were later to become the cornerstones of the policy adopted by Democratic Kampuchea.

Khieu Samphan returned from Paris in 1959, taught as a member of the law faculty of the University of Phnom Penh, and started a left-wing, French-language publication, L ' Observateur.

Pol Pot's wife, Khieu Ponnary, was head of the Association of Democratic Khmer Women and her younger sister, Khieu Thirith, served as minister of social action.

The powerful Khieu Thirith, minister of social action, was responsible for directing the youth movement.

The major argument in Khieu Samphan's 1959 thesis, Cambodia's Economy and Industrial Development, was that the country had to become self-reliant and had to end its economic dependency on the developed world.

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.

Sihanouk, representing FUNCINPEC, was President ; Khieu Samphan, representing the Khmer Rouge, Vice-President, and Son Sann Prime Minister.

The Party's paranoia with regard to security, and its obsessive secrecy, led many senior Khmer Rouge cadres to be identified in internal documents by pseudonyms or numbers: Son Sen was often referred to as " Khieu ", and his wife as " At ".

Khieu Samphan (, born July 27, 1931 ) was the president of the state presidium of Democratic Kampuchea ( Cambodia ) from 1976 until 1979.

Samphan was born in Svay Rieng Province to Khieu Long, who served as a judge under the French Colonial government and his wife Por Kong.

When Samphan was a young boy, Khieu Long was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to imprisonment, leaving Samphan's mother to take up a living selling fruits and vegetables in Kampong Cham Province where he grew up.

Returning from Paris with his doctorate in 1959, Khieu held a faculty position at the University of Phnom Penh and started L ' Observateur, a French-language leftist publication that was viewed with hostility by the government.

Before leaving Cambodia to study in Paris, Sary was engaged to Khieu Thirith.

In May 2000, a female marbled cat was trapped along an animal trail in a hill-evergreen / bamboo mixed forest in Thailand's Phu Khieu Wildlife Sanctuary.

The Khmer Unity Party, is an Cambodian opposition party founded in 1997 by its actual president Khieu Rada, who was previously part of the royalist FUNCINPEC party.

Most leftist Sangkum deputies now had to compete with members of the traditional elite: only Hou Yuon, Hu Nim and Khieu Samphan chose to stand, their task made harder by Sihanok actively campaigning against them: nevertheless, Yuon won by a large margin in his constituency, receiving 78 % of the vote.

Sihanouk's chronic suspicion of United States intentions in the region, his perception of revolutionary China as Cambodia's most valuable ally, his respect for such prominent and capable leftists as Hou, Hu, and Khieu, and his vague notions of " royal socialism " all impelled him to experiment with socialist policies.

The following year, the government closed the paper, and Sihanouk's police publicly humiliated Khieu by beating, undressing and photographing him in public — as Shawcross notes, " not the sort of humiliation that men forgive or forget.

In Thailand ’ s Phu Khieu Wildlife Reserve 20 leopard cats were radio-collared between 1999 and 2003.

The returns showed a surprising upsurge in the conservative vote at the expense of more moderate and left-wing elements, although Hou, Hu, and Khieu were reelected by their constituencies.

Samphan was of Khmer-Chinese extraction, having inherited his Chinese heritage from his maternal grandfather.

Nevertheless, Samphan managed to earn a seat at the Lycee Sisowath and was able to travel to France to pursue his University studies in Economics.

His first important conflict with the anti-Communist Cambodian government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk came the following year, when L ' Observateur was banned and Samphan was arrested, forced to undress and photographed in public.

Despite this humiliation, Samphan was invited to join Sihanouk's Sangkum, a ' national movement ' that operated as the single political party within Cambodia.

Samphan, who had called on the government to moderate its actions towards the demonstrators, was threatened by Sihanouk with arrest and execution, and fled Phnom Penh to join his former colleagues in the maquis.

After the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and subsequent fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, Samphan led a rebel government which was accorded a level of international recognition until 1982.

At about the same time, a book by Samphan, Reflection on Cambodian History Up to the Era of Democratic Kampuchea, was published ; in the book, he wrote that he had worked for social justice and the defense of national sovereignty, while attributing responsibility for all of the group's policies to Pol Pot.

According to Samphan, under the Khmer Rouge " there was no policy of starving people.

After he left a Phnom Penh hospital where he was treated following his stroke, Samphan was arrested by the Cambodia Tribunal and charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.