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Funeral for the wife of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot

(3 Jul 2003) 1. Close up portrait photograph of Khieu Ponnary on her coffin 2. Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge leader, entering room 3. Khieu Thirith, Khieu Ponnary's sister and former Minister of Social Affairs in Khmer Rouge regime leaving car 4. Khieu Thirith walking away with husband Ieng Sary, former Foreign Minister in the Khmer Rouge regime 5. Sary greets Samphan 6. Various shots of Sary and Samphan 7. Wide shot room with mourners 8. Thirith crying 9. Policemen carrying wreaths 10. Mourners carrying coffins 11. Soldiers in procession carrying photograph of Ponnary and wreaths 12. Truck carrying coffin 13. Wide shot funeral procession 14. Close up Nuon Chea, chief idealogue of Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot's right hand man 15. Samphan walking towards seating 16. Various Samphan and Chea 17. Sary walking with his head covered 18. Wide shot funeral procession walking round the grounds of the temple 19. Mid shot coffin 20. Sary and Thirith 23. Wide shot mourners and coffin 24. Mid shot Chea 25. Mid shot Samphan 26. Sary placing incense stick by coffin 27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge President: "I think it was time for her because as you know she has been ill for a very long time." 28. Various mourners lighting funeral pyre STORYLINE: The once-powerful wife of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was cremated on Thursday amid chanting Buddhist monks and religious rituals that the ultra-communist revolutionaries had tried to eradicate during their reign of terror. Khieu Ponnary, the first wife of Pol Pot, died on Tuesday at age 83 in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin in northwestern Cambodia. The cremation, attended by more than 500 monks, mourners and schoolchildren, took place at a Buddhist temple where her coffin was carried in a procession led by police. Among those who attended were her brother-in-law, Ieng Sary, who served as the Khmer Rouge's foreign minister during the radical communist group's 1975-79 rule. Sary, who is in his 70s, is accused of many crimes against humanity but lives freely under a government amnesty, as do other former Khmer Rouge leaders. Also in attendance were Khieu Samphan, once nominal head of the group, and Pol Pot's former deputy, Nuon Chea. Khieu Samphan said he had not seen Khieu Ponnary for more than 20 years. Like many top Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Ponnary studied in France in the early 1950s. She married Pol Pot in 1956 and wielded considerable power as a member of the Khmer Rouge's inner clique, but she struggled with mental illness for more than two decades, and more recently suffered from cancer. According to most accounts, she was already showing signs of mental illness when Cambodia's civil war began in 1970. She was taken to China for psychiatric treatment but her condition reportedly failed to improve. The Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975 with the dream of creating an agrarian utopia, and by the time it was toppled by a Vietnamese invasion four years later, an estimated 1.7 (m) million Cambodians had perished of disease, hunger and executions. The regime emptied cities, set up slave labour camps in the countryside and slaughtered teachers, civil servants, Buddhist clergy and other members of the former establishment. Pol Pot, who died in 1998 as a prisoner of his Khmer Rouge comrades, separated from Khieu Ponnary in the 1980s and took a second, younger wife, with whom he had a daughter. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...