People
Jacques Vergès
Biography:
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Jacques Vergès, born 5 March 1925 in Ubon Ratchathani, Siam (now called Thailand), is a French lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of well-known clients from anticolonialist Algerian militant Djamila Bouhired (his future wife) in 1957-1962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan (2008). His clients have included both leftwing and rightwing terrorists, war criminals, and militants, including Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie (1987), and international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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In the Darkroom | 2013-01-13 |
Manifesto of the 121 as Self | 2011-01-01 |
Facing Genocide: Khieu Samphan and Pol Pot as Self | 2010-01-31 |
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve) as Self | 2008-10-07 |
Terror's Advocate as Self | 2007-06-06 |
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie as Self | 1988-11-01 |