KHMER ROUGE LEADERS WATCH AS FIRST WIFE OF FORMER DICTATOR POL POT IS CREMATED, 2003-07-03 (photo)

Khieu Samphan (L), a former Khmer Rouge leader, and Nuon Chea, brother of former Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, look on at the cremation of Pol Pot's first wife Khieu Ponnary on July 3, 2003 in Cambodia's remote northwestern province of Pailin. Khieu Ponnary died after a long illness on July 1 at age 83, just months after the United Nations and Cambodia signed a long-awaited deal to put members of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge on trial for genocide. Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea are expected to be called as defendants in the planned U.N backed trial. The ultra-communist Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979 and are blamed for killing some 1.7 million people. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang AL/TW