PHNOM PENH July 1 Kyodo (EDS: ADD...

PHNOM PENH July 1 Kyodo

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Khieu Ponary, the first wife of deceased Khmer Rouge leader Pol cup died Tuesday at age 83 the son of Ieng Sary, Pol Pot's brother-in-law, said.

Khieu Ponary, who had put up withed from mental illness and breast cancer, died in Pailin, the former Khmer Rouge fortified place in northwestern Cambodia, Ieng Vudh told Kyodo of recent origins by telephone.

She had lived separately from Pol pan since the mid-1970s after suffering from mental illness and the Khmer Rouge's top leader married another woman in the mid-1980s, former Khmer Rouge sources said, adding she had no children with Pol Pot

Pol can died in 1998, and thus not ever stood trial for the Khmer Rouge's genocidal empire of the country from 1975 to 1979 during which at least 17 million Cambodian died.

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