Nuon Chea was known as Brother No. 2, the right-hand man of Pol Pot, ... Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, ...

Over the course of four bloody years in the 1970s, Pol Pot and his followers murdered somewhere between one and a half and two and a half million of their countrymen ... When I met Nuon Chea, ...

Nuon helped Pol Pot seize control of Cambodia's underground communist movement in the 1950s and '60s. He later became the group's chief political ideologue during its rule in the 1970s, when its ...

Nuon Chea, Khmer Rouge’s Chief Ideologist, Dies at 93. Pol Pot’s deputy, who was known as Brother No. 2, was convicted of directly overseeing the torture and killing of more than 14,000 people ...

-- Unlike many of Pol Pot's inner circle, Nuon Chea did not study in Paris. Instead, he read law at Bangkok's prestigious Thammasat University, where he became a member of the Thai Communist Party.

Nuon Chea, second in command under Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, told The Associated Press in an interview he ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia's most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader was arrested and charged with crimes against humanity Wednesday -- three decades after the murderous regime left 1.7 ...

The No. 2 leader of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime told a court he and his comrades were not "bad people," denying responsibility Monday for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians ...

Nuon Chea, a senior member of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime which led to the death of more than 1.7 million people, died on Sunday at the age of 93.

Khmer Rouge 'brother number two' Nuon Chea died Sunday aged 93, a spokesman for the Cambodia tribunal where he was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity told AFP.

Khmer Rouge "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea blamed foreigners on Friday for Cambodia's current ills, thereby refusing to acknowledge the legacy of Pol Pot's murderous regime at the U.N.-backed ...