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
The Khmer Rouge exploited thousands of desensitized, conscripted children in their early teens to commit mass murder and other atrocities during and after the genocide. The indoctrinated …
Khmer Rouge: Cambodia's years of brutality - BBC News
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 Monitor
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 …
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 …
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 …
Khmer Rouge: Regime Origins, Timeline, and Fall - ThoughtCo
Jul 27, 2020 · The Khmer Rouge was a brutal communist regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. The regime was founded and led by the ruthless Marxist dictator Pol Pot. The regime …
Southeast Asia‘s Most Murderous Regime: The Khmer Rouge …
May 25, 2024 · The Khmer Rouge regime was one of the most brutal and murderous in modern history, responsible for the deaths of up to two million people in just four years. Its legacy …