This handout photo from the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on March 19, 2012 shows Nuon Chea (AFP/File, Nhet Sokheng)
Published January 14, 2013
Associated Press

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia –  Ailing former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea has been hospitalized in the Cambodian capital and is being treated for acute bronchitis.
The 86-year-old is one of only three surviving leaders of the radical movement who are facing war crimes charges in a trial by a U.N.-backed court.
Tribunal spokesman Neth Pheaktra says Nuon Chea was hospitalized Sunday.
Pheaktra said Monday that hearings in Nuon Chea's case had been postponed.
Nuon Chea was known as Brother No. 2 after Pol Pot, the deceased leader of the extremist group whose fanatical efforts to realize a utopian society during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 reign led to the death of some 1.7 people from starvation, diseases, overwork and executions.
Nuon Chea is charged with crimes against humanity, genocide, religious persecution, homicide and torture.
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Khmer Rouge trial adjourned as accused hospitalised

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Judges at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes court suspended proceedings after one of the three former regime leaders on trial for alleged atrocities was hospitalised.
"Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, 86, was taken to hospital on Sunday afternoon.
According to a medical report read to the court, Nuon Chea was diagnosed with "acute bronchitis" and doctors needed between four and seven days to monitor his condition.
"I cannot say how serious he is, but he has been placed in the intensive care unit," tribunal spokesman Neth Pheaktra told AFP.
Nuon Chea's lawyer Son Arun said his health was "deteriorating because he has many illnesses".
"He will not waive his rights to attend the hearing because this case is very important. All witnesses who are testifying are important for him," he told AFP.
Nuon Chea and two other top former Khmer Rouge leaders deny charges including war crimes and genocide from their roles in a regime blamed for the deaths of up to two million people.
Health fears have long hung over the UN-backed tribunal with the octogenarian defendants all suffering from varying ailments.
The 1975-1979 regime oversaw one of the worst horrors of the 20th century, wiping out nearly a quarter of the population through starvation, overwork and execution in a bid to forge a communist utopia.