Ieng Thirth was indicted and sent to trial for crimes against humanity, Grave Breaches of the Geneva Conventions of and genocide; offences which are defined and punishable under Articles 4,5, 6, 29 New and 39 New of the Law on the Establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers as amended 27 October The order for release was overturned by the Supreme Court Chamber who ordered that an new assessment of her fitness to stand trial should be conducted within six months following medical treatment.
In a decision issued on 13 September , the Trial Chamber unanimously found that Ieng Thirith remains unfit to trial. The Chamber consequently ordered a stay of the proceedings and ordered the release of Ieng Thirith. Media type - Any - Court Document. Sort by Most relevant Most recent. Home Ieng Thirith Former Accused. Phnom Penh. The Khmer Rouge wiped out nearly a quarter of the population through starvation, forced labour and execution, in a bid to forge an agrarian utopia.
Born Khieu Thirith, the daughter of a well off judge, she recounted earlier that she was initiated into politics by her future husband when they were classmates at high school in Phnom Penh, according to court documents.
She attended university in Paris where she majored in Shakespearean studies and became the first Cambodian to gain a degree in English literature. After returning to Cambodia in with her husband, she worked as a professor before opening an English school.
By the mids, she was devoting herself entirely to her revolutionary activities with her husband, operating from the Cambodian jungles along the border with Vietnam.
The couple, along with Pol Pot and his wife Khieu Ponnary, would become the ideological centre of a nascent communist movement that unleashed unprecedented destruction in the late s.
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The proceedings against Ieng Thirith were stayed in after she had been found unfit to stand trial due to progressive dementia, and she was released under a regime of judicial supervision. She remained under judicial supervision until her death. A woman sitting next to me in a dance performance, I realize, is crying. It is hard to tell at first because she holds her body so still but tears pour down her weathered face.
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