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Jacques Vergès (French pronunciation: [ʒak vɛʁʒɛs]; 5 March 1925 – 15 August 2013) was a Siamese-born French lawyer and anti-colonial activist. Vergès began as a fighter in the French Resistance during World War II, under Charles de Gaulle 's Free French forces.
- Jacques-Loys Vergès (1951), Meriem Vergès (1967), Liess Vergès (1969)
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- French and Algerian
- Djamila Bouhired
Aug 16, 2013 · After the war, he studied law at the University of Paris, joined the Communist Party and, in 1949, became a leader of an anticolonial student movement. His student friends included Khieu Samphan ...
Aug 16, 2013 · Jacques Vergès, who has died aged 88, was one of France's best known and most controversial lawyers. He was nicknamed "the devil's advocate" for defending "indefensible" clients from the Nazi...
Aug 16, 2013 · He later studied law in Paris, where his fellow students included the future Khmer Rouge leader who would be known as Pol Pot. Mr. Vergès would later recall the dictator as a “discreet ...
Jacques Vergès was a Siamese-born French lawyer and anti-colonial activist. Vergès began as a fighter in the French Resistance during World War II, under Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces. After becoming a lawyer, he became well known for his defense of FLN militants during the Algerian War of Independence.
Aug 16, 2013 · Vergès studied law at the University of Paris after joining the Communist party in 1945.
Aug 26, 2013 · Last week the illustrious, despised and devilishly playful Jacques Vergès died. The French lawyer was notorious not only for the clients he defended but for the provocative tactics he used. Most recently, he had defended former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan, now being tried at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
