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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Kim Trang (Ieng Sary) arrested for KR Trial


Kim Trang aka Ieng Sary, one of the Vietnamese behind the killing field.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Ieng Sary, the former Khmer Rouge foreign minister taken into custody yesterday by Cambodia's genocide tribunal, was part of the communist group's inner circle, rising to power alongside its notorious leader Pol Pot.
But in the 1990s, when the Khmer Rouge was no longer in power, he defected with a large coterie of followers, effectively setting the stage for the group's collapse by the end of the decade.

His change of heart earned him a limited amnesty but left open the question of how much responsibility he bore for the atrocities the Khmer Rouge regime committed in the late 1970s, when 1.7 million Cambodians died of starvation, disease, overwork and execution.

As deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Ieng Sary was one of a few key decision makers in the central committee.

He has long been accused of personally persuading several diplomats and intellectuals based overseas to return to Cambodia to join the revolution after the Khmer Rouge overthrew a pro- American government in 1975. The returnees were arrested and put in reeducation camps, and most were later executed.

Ieng Sary, born as Kim Trang on January 1, 1930 - the date is sometimes disputed - in a former Cambodian province that is now part of southern Vietnam, received a government scholarship in the 1950s to study in France.

source: http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=9&art_id=56729&sid=16258749&con_type=1&d_str=20071113&fc=2

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