Nuon Chea was the highest ranking member of the Khmer Rouge to be found guilty of crimes at the UN-backed tribunal While Pol Pot has gone down in history alongside Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and ...

Known as "Brother Number Two," Nuon Chea was considered Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's right hand man. He held a number of positions during the regime's rule, including a short stint as acting prime ...

"Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, 88, and former President Khieu Samphan, 83, were found guilty of crimes against humanity orchestrated by the regime as part of its ultra-Maoist revolution from 1975 ...

Hearings in the next case against surviving leaders of the Pol Pot regime are expected to begin later this year. Defending Pol Pot's right-hand man at the troubled tribunal is a lonely job.

Pol Pot died in the jungle in 1998, and on Christmas Eve that year, Khieu Samphan surrendered along with Nuon Chea, the movement’s chief ideologue and its second-highest official. Nuon Chea was ...

Two Dutch lawyers Michiel Pestman and Victor Koppe travel to Cambodia in 2011 to defend Nuon Chea in an international tribunal Nuon Chea also known as Brother No 2 was the second man after Pol Pot ...

Nuon Chea was the highest ranking member of the Khmer Rouge to be found guilty of crimes at the UN-backed tribunal While Pol Pot has gone down in history alongside Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and ...