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Relatives carry a portrait of former Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, Nuon Chea, during his funeral procession in Pailin in northwestern Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. Nuon Chea, known as Brother No. 2 and the right-hand man of Pol Pot, the leader of the brutal Communist regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, died Sunday at age 93. (AP Photo/Chorn Chanren)

Khmer Rouge ideologue cremated, appeal may be stopped

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2018 file photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nuon Chea, who was the Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, sits in a court room before a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, the country’s U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal announced. He was 93. (Mark Peters/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia via AP, File)

Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies at 93

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press