This file photo taken on May 21, 2008 shows former Khmer Rouge minister Ieng Thirith, in court at the Extraodinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh. - AFP PHOTO / FILES / Heng Sinith
PHNOM PENH, Aug 22, 2015 (AFP) - The former "first lady" of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime died Saturday, according to a UN-backed tribunal, without victims ever seeing her face trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Ieng Thirith, a French-educated revolutionary who was 83 when she died, was one of the few women in the leadership of the communist movement behind the horrors of the "Killing Fields" era.
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