# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nuon-chea
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:33.542Z

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description: "Second-in-command to Pol Pot, he was the chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge and architect of policies that fed the Cambodian genocide. Known as \"Brother Number Two,\" he received a life sentence for crimes against humanity and genocide in 2014 and 2018, dying in prison the following year."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Lao Kim Lorn on 7 July 1926, he became a Cambodian revolutionary and the principal ideological force behind the Khmer Rouge. He served briefly as acting Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea while functioning as Pol Pot's second-in-command during the 1975–1979 genocide. Decades later, in 2014, he was convicted of crimes against humanity alongside Khieu Samphan, another senior leader. A second trial in 2018 added genocide convictions; the Trial Chamber merged these into a single life sentence on 16 November 2018. He died in custody on 4 August 2019, never having left prison.