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    Nuon Chea, Top Khmer Rouge Leader, Dies At 93 While Serving Life Sentence

    He was seen as a chief architect of the regime's brutal collectivist policies that led to the deaths of some 1.7 million people. He was found guilty of war crimes by a U.N.-backed tribunal last year.
    by Scott Neuman Aug 05, 2019 2 minutes
    A handout photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on November 16, 2018, shows former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea during his war crimes trial last year in Phnom Penh.

    Nuon Chea, who served as Pol Pot's chief lieutenant during Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, has died at 93, according to a U.N. tribunal which found him guilty last year of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

    He was known as "Brother No. 2"

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