Khmer Rouge - Wikipedia
The Khmer Rouge[a] is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the Democratic Kampuchea through which the CPK …
Khmer Rouge | Facts, Leadership, Genocide, & Death Toll
Dec 19, 2024 · Khmer Rouge, radical communist movement that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 after winning power through a guerrilla war. It was purportedly set up in 1967 as the …
Khmer Rouge ‑ Genocide, Regime & Definition | HISTORY
Sep 12, 2017 · The Khmer Rouge was a brutal regime that ruled Cambodia, under the leadership of Marxist dictator Pol Pot, from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot’s attempts to create a Cambodian …
Cambodian genocide - Wikipedia
[2] The Cambodian genocide[a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens [b] by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol …
Khmer Rouge: Cambodia's years of brutality - BBC
Nov 16, 2018 · In the four years that the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, it was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century. The brutal regime, in power from 1975-1979, …
Khmer Rouge History - Cambodia Tribunal
The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia on April 17, 1975. The CPK created the state of Democratic Kampuchea in 1976 …
Cambodia 1975–1979 - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
From April 17, 1975, to January 7, 1979, the Khmer Rouge perpetrated one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century. Nearly two million people died under the rule of the fanatical Communist …
Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims
Cambodian genocide, systematic murder of up to three million people in Cambodia from 1976 to 1978 that was carried out by the Khmer Rouge government under Pol Pot. Immediately after …
Origins of the Khmer Rouge - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Inspired by the teachings of Mao Zedong, the Khmer Rouge came to espouse a radical agrarian ideology based on strict one-party rule, rejection of urban and Western ideas, and abolition of …
Southeast Asia‘s Most Murderous Regime: The Khmer Rouge …
May 25, 2024 · From 1975 to 1979, Cambodia was ruled by one of the most brutal and murderous regimes in modern history: the Khmer Rouge.