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Top woman leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge dies at 83

August 30, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sopheng Cheang Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Ieng Thirith, a Khmer Rouge leader who was the highest-ranking woman in the genocidal regime that oversaw the death of nearly 2 million Cambodians in the late 1970s, died Aug. 22, her family and U.N. officials said. She was 83 years old. Ieng Thirith was […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, 2015, Associated Press, Cambodia, Documentation Center, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith, Ieng Vuth, Khieu Ponnary, Khieu Samphan, Khieu Thirith, Khmer Rouge, Nuon Chea, Paris, Phnom Penh, Pol Pot, United Nations-backed, Vol 34 No 36 | August 29 - September 4

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