Khmer Rouge trial adjourned as Brother No. 2 hospitalized

“Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, 86, was taken to the 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 U.N.-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.

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