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Jacques Vergès

Jacques Vergès
  • Name: Jacques Vergès
  • Birthday: 1925-03-05
  • Place of birth: Ubon Ratchathani, Siam (now called Thailand)
  • Popularity: 0.185
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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

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Title Release date
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