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Ieng Thirith (born 1932, Battambang Province)[1] was a member of the Khmer Rouge Central Committee.
Early years
Born Khieu Thirith in northwestern Cambodia's Battambang Province, she came from a relatively wealthy and privileged family, and was the second daughter of a Cambodian judge who abandoned the family during World War II, running off to Battambang with a Cambodian princess.[2]
Thirith graduated from the Lycée Sisowath in Phnom Penh, and while still in Cambodia, she became engaged to Ieng Sary, who attended Lycée in the year above her. She went on to Paris with her sister where she studied English Literature majoring in Shakespeare at the Sorbonne. She became the first Cambodian to achieve a degree in English Literature. Thirith married Ieng Sary in the town hall of Paris' 15th arrondissement the summer of 1951 and took her husband's name, becoming Ieng Thirith.[2] Her older sister, Khieu Ponnary, later became the wife of Pol Pot. Together the two sisters and their husbands later became known as 'Cambodia's Gang of Four', a reference to the radical group led by Jiang Qing the widow of Mao Tse-tung.[3]
Midlife
She returned to her native Cambodia in 1957 and worked as a professor before founding a private English school in 1960.[1]
She was a senior member of the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) regime. From 1975 to 1979 Thirith was Minister of Social Affairs and Action and Head of Democratic Kampuchea's Red Cross Society.
Later years
Thirith lived with her husband Ieng Sary in a luxurious villa on Street 21 in southern Phnom Penh.[4] Until her arrest, she was rarely seen in public.
By 2006, Ieng Thirith and her husband had retained foreign legal counsel to assist with their defense as the Cambodia Tribunal made progress with courtroom preparation and judge selection. [4] She was arrested, along with ailing Ieng Sary,[5] on November 12, 2007, at their home in Phnom Penh, after being indicted by the Cambodia Tribunal.[6] She was arrested for crimes against humanity:[7] "planning, direction, coordination and ordering of widespread purges ... and the unlawful killing or murder of staff members from within the Ministry of Social Affairs."[1]
References
Early years
Born Khieu Thirith in northwestern Cambodia's Battambang Province, she came from a relatively wealthy and privileged family, and was the second daughter of a Cambodian judge who abandoned the family during World War II, running off to Battambang with a Cambodian princess.[2]
Thirith graduated from the Lycée Sisowath in Phnom Penh, and while still in Cambodia, she became engaged to Ieng Sary, who attended Lycée in the year above her. She went on to Paris with her sister where she studied English Literature majoring in Shakespeare at the Sorbonne. She became the first Cambodian to achieve a degree in English Literature. Thirith married Ieng Sary in the town hall of Paris' 15th arrondissement the summer of 1951 and took her husband's name, becoming Ieng Thirith.[2] Her older sister, Khieu Ponnary, later became the wife of Pol Pot. Together the two sisters and their husbands later became known as 'Cambodia's Gang of Four', a reference to the radical group led by Jiang Qing the widow of Mao Tse-tung.[3]
Midlife
She returned to her native Cambodia in 1957 and worked as a professor before founding a private English school in 1960.[1]
She was a senior member of the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) regime. From 1975 to 1979 Thirith was Minister of Social Affairs and Action and Head of Democratic Kampuchea's Red Cross Society.
Later years
Thirith lived with her husband Ieng Sary in a luxurious villa on Street 21 in southern Phnom Penh.[4] Until her arrest, she was rarely seen in public.
By 2006, Ieng Thirith and her husband had retained foreign legal counsel to assist with their defense as the Cambodia Tribunal made progress with courtroom preparation and judge selection. [4] She was arrested, along with ailing Ieng Sary,[5] on November 12, 2007, at their home in Phnom Penh, after being indicted by the Cambodia Tribunal.[6] She was arrested for crimes against humanity:[7] "planning, direction, coordination and ordering of widespread purges ... and the unlawful killing or murder of staff members from within the Ministry of Social Affairs."[1]
References
- a b c Ker Munthit, Associated Press (November 11, 2007). "Ieng Thirith: A pioneer among female leaders of the Khmer Rouge". msnbc.msn.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-15.
- a b David P. Chandler (1999). "Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot" (ISBN 0813335108). p.32. Westview Press. Retrieved on 2007-11-15.
- Securing Allegiance: Elite’s Children Find Love in a Hot Political Climate, Cambodia Daily Weekend Edition Saturday, January 17-18, 2004
- a b Michael Sheridan (February 19, 2006). "Pol Pot's in-laws face trial". timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-11-15.
- Ian MacKinnon, South-east Asia correspondent (November 12, 2007). "Leading Khmer Rouge figures arrested". Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved on 2007-11-15.
- "ECCC detains Ieng Sary, wife for questioning", Xinhua, November 12, 2007.
- "Ex-official of Khmer Rouge and wife arrested for crimes against humanity", Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), November 12, 2007.
- Philip Short. Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. Henry Holt and Company, 2005.
4 comments:
I believe that good people will not work with bad people. It is just like water and oil. During Pol Pot regime, where they have built new factory? where they have made good medecine?
Ieng Thirith has created a thousand of killings places. Ieng Thirith hospital were all killing places. If any person cannot work, they must send to killing places in which Ieng Thirith called hospital. They employed all young cold blood killers to kill people by starving everyone there for not being able to work. They made medecine from rice huskes and lemon juice. Hundred of thousand of people have been killed by these so-called medecine of Ieng Thirith. Areak Prey
If you voted for CPP (Cambodian People's Party):
Also known as:
Communist People's Party
Khmer Rouge People's Party
Khmer Krorhorm People's Party
You're support the killing of 1.7 million Khmer peoples.
You're support the killing of innocent men, women and children in Cambodia on March 30, 1997.
You're support murder of Piseth Pilika.
You're support assassination of journalists in Cambodia.
You're support political assassination and killing.
You're support attemted assassination and murder of leader of the free trade union in Cambodia.
You're support corruption in Cambodia.
You're support Hun Sen Regime burn poor people's house down to the ground and leave them homeless.
These are the Trade Mark of Hun Sen Regime.
Hun Sen, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin are Khmer Rouge commanders.
When is the ECCC going to bring these three criminals to U.N. Khmer Rouge Trail?
Khmer Rouge Regime is a genocide organization.
Hun Sen Regime is a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen Bodyguards is a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen Death Squad is a terrorist organization.
Cambodian People's Party is a terrorist organization.
I have declare the current Cambodian government which is lead by the Cambodian People's Party as a terrorist organization.
Whoever associate with the current Cambodian government are associate with a terrorist organization.
3:53 AM,
I agree with you a 100% on this following quote "I believe that good people will not work with bad people. It is just like water and oil." Indeed, people with pure and good hearts never sided with evil vilain such as Hun Sen and his cronies. However, there is likey possible to have a good person with pure heart can be born under the roofs of evils.
"She went on to Paris with her sister where she studied English Literature majoring in Shakespeare at the Sorbonne. She became the first Cambodian to achieve a degree in English Literature."
Personally, I don't think that she was the first Cambodian to achieve such as that degree, especially in English Litterature. NOOO WAY !!!
In fact, well-educated people - not to say "highly educated" individuals, would have high principles and virtues, which in her case, SHE DOESN'T HAVE ANY OF THEM. You see what I mean???
ONLY WEAK AND STUPID PEOPLE THAT CAN COMMIT SUCH AN ATROCITY. AND ONLY BUT OOONLY PEOPLE LIKE THOSE, INCLUDING HUN SEN AND HIS CRONIES THAT ENJOYED DOING EVIL ACTS.
MAY GOD BLESS CAMBODIA AND HER PEOPLE (REAL KHMER PEOPLE)!!!
Please promote LOVE and PEACE and reject HATRED and EVIL.
Long Live HM King-Father Sihanouk!
Long Live HM Queen-Mom Monineat!
Long Live HM King Sihamoni!
Long Live CAMBODIA!!!
WOW ! HOW IMPRESSIVE IT IS!!! THAT EVIL VILAIN LADY, HER HUSBAND AND HER OLD COMRADES, INCLUDING Hun Kwack and his cronies, WILL DIE WITHOUT SALVATION... BECAUSE THEIR HANDS ARE TAINTED WITH TOO MUCH BLOOD.
May God help them to find a way to purgatory before headding to HELL. AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCI ON THEIR WEAK SOUL...
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