Ieng, Sary fr

Country of proceedings: Cambodia
Context of crimes: Cambodia
Date: 2007 - present
Keywords: Crimes against humanity (murder, extermination, illegal detention, persecution, inhumane acts), war crimes (murder, torture, deportation)

Court Documents
14-11-2007 - Provisionnal Detention Order

Presentation of the case

Ieng Sary, alias Van, was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Democratic Kampuchea and member of the Central and Standing Committees of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK). He is accused of having directed, encouraged, enforced or otherwise rendered support to CPK policy and practice between April 1975 and January 1979 which was characterized by murder, extermination, imprisonment, persecution and other inhuman acts such as forcible transfers of the population, enslavement and forced labour.

On 14 November 2007, Ieng Sary was placed in provisional detention with his wife Thirith, and charged by the ECCC with crimes against humanity (murder, extermination, imprisonment, persecution and other inhumane acts) and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions (willful killing, willfully causing great suffering, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a civilian).

The trial of Ieng Sary before the ECCC is likely to start in 2008.

External Link
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)