Khmer Rouge
Khmer Rouge Rule of Cambodia, Cambodian-Vietnamese War, Communist Party of Kampuchea, Khao-I-Dang, Sa Kaeo Refugee CAM
2010
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia, Cambodian-Vietnamese War, Communist Party of Kampuchea, Khao-I-Dang, Sa Kaeo Refugee Camp, Nong Chan Refugee Camp, National Army of Democratic Kampuchea, Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea, Anlong Veng District, The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan, Phnom Malai, Patriotic and Democratic Front of the Great National Union of Kampuchea, Provisional Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia, Party of Democratic Kampuchea, Cambodian National Unity Party, Agrarian socialism, The Conscience of Nhem En, Santebal, Democratic National Union Movement, Year Zero, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, Hope Stevens, Khmer National Solidarity Party, Higher Institute of National Defence, Ba Chuc Massacre, New People, Communist Youth League of Kampuchea, Kampuchean Revolutionary Army. Excerpt: The Khmer Rouge (Khmer: ) was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan. The regime led by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979 was known as the Democratic Kampuchea. This organization is remembered primarily for its policy of social engineering, which resulted in genocide. Its attempts at agricultural reform led to widespread famine, while its insistence on absolute self-sufficiency, even in the supply of medicine, led to the deaths of thousands from treatable diseases (such as malaria). Brutal and arbitrary executions and torture carried out by its cadres against perceived subversive elements, or during purges of its own ranks between 1976 and 1978, are considered to have constituted a genocide. The clandestine Communist Party of Kampuchea itself constituted the secret leadership of the Khmer Rouge, as its official name wa...
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