| LC control no. | no2011127502 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ieng Thirith, 1932-2015 |
| Variant(s) | Thirith, Ieng, 1932-2015 Khieu Thirith, 1932-2015 |
| Located | Phnom Penh (Cambodia) |
| Birth date | 1932-03-10 |
| Death date | 2015-08-22 |
| Place of birth | Bătdâmbâng (Cambodia : Province) |
| Place of death | Pailin (Cambodia) |
| Field of activity | Cambodia--Politics and government--1975-1979 |
| Affiliation | Parti communiste du Kampuchea |
| Profession or occupation | Cabinet officers |
| Found in | Statement at the International Conference for Solidarity with Kampuchea, 1979?: t.p. (Mrs. Ieng Thirith; Minister for Social Affairs, head of the delegation of Democratic Kampuchea) Wikipedia, viewed Aug. 18, 2011 (Ieng Thirith, b. 1932, Battambang Province, Cambodia; wife of Ieng Sary, the former minister of foreign affairs of Kampuchea's Khmer Rouge regime; from 1975-1979 Thirith was Minister of Social Affairs and Action, and head of Kampuchea's Red Cross Society; arrested by the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia in Nov. 2007 as suspect of crimes against humanity); viewed Aug. 24, 2015 (b. Khieu Thirith, Mar. 10, 1932; m. Ieng Sary, 1951 (d. 2013); d. Aug. 22, 2015, Pailin) New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 24, 2015 (in obituary published Aug. 22: Ieng Thirith; d. Saturday [Aug. 22, 2015], Pailin, Cambodia, aged 83; sister-in-law and close collaborator of the genocidal Cambodian leader Pol Pot; minister of social affairs in the Khmer Rouge government; m. Ieng Sary, who was foreign minister and deputy prime minister (d. 2013); before her arrest in 2007, lived with her husband in Phnom Penh) |
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