Ieng Thirith
Age: 83
Summary: influential
leader in the Khmer Rouge considered as the highest-ranking woman in
the genocidal regime that oversaw the deaths of nearly 2 million
Cambodians in the late 1970's who was a sister-in-law of the movement's
late supreme leader Pol Pot (d. 1998) and was also minister of social
affairs while she was married to the regime's former foreign minister
Ieng Sary (who died in 2013 at age 87).
Cause of Death: Complications from Alzheimer's disease
Born: March 10, 1932
Died: August 22, 2015
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
