Khmer Rouge 'First Lady' hospitalised
The former "First Lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime has been hospitalised in neighbouring Thailand and is relying on a feeding tube and oxygen to survive, her son said yesterday.
Ieng Thirith, 82, who experts say has Alzheimer's disease, was released in September 2012 from the purpose-built detention facility at the UN-backed war crime court where she had been held since 2007, after she was ruled unfit to stand trial.
Her husband, former foreign minister Ieng Sary, died aged 87 in March last year while on trial for war crimes and genocide, cheating Cambodians of a verdict over his role in the regime's 1975-1979 reign of terror.
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