Famous People with Name Ieng

Ieng Sary            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Ieng Sary: was a powerful figure in the Khmer Rouge. He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979 and held several senior positions in the Khmer Rouge until his defection to the government in 1996.Of Khmer ancestry on his father's side, and Chinese ancestry on his mother's,[2][3] Ieng Sary was born in Chau Thanh, Tra Vinh province, southern Vietnam. Sary changed his name from the Vietnamese Kim Trang when he joined the Khmer Rouge. He is the brother-in-law by marriage, of the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot (real name: Saloth Sar). Sary and Saloth Sar studied at Phnom Penh's Lycée Sisowath where their future wives, the sisters Khieu Thirith and Khieu Ponnary also studied. Before leaving Cambodia to study in Paris, Sary was engaged to Khieu Thirith.[4]

Ieng Thirith            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Ieng Thirith: a former member of the Khmer Rouge Central Committee. Her original name is Khieu Thirith.[2] As the wife of the primer minister of the Khmer Rouge regime of Democratic Kampuchea, is known as the "Khmer Rouge First Lady". She is the sister of Khieu Ponnary (died in 2003), the first wife of Pol Pot. Thirith was the Minister of Social Action during the regimen.[3] She was arrested by the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in November 2007 with her husband, Ieng Sary as suspect of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.