Cambodia
Communist guerrilla forces in Camodia were called the Khmer Rouge.
The Khmer Rouge was the communist group that seized control of Cambodia in 1975. They instigated the Cambodian Genocide, which killed three million people. The Khmer Rouge was deposed in 1979 by the Vietnamese army.
Cambodian Communists WERE once called the Khmer Rouge. Rouge=Red; Khmer=the predominant ethnic group in Cambodia.
How did this question come about? They have everything to do with Cambodia. Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge, the Communist party which ruled the country, and killed between 1 and 2 million people in a very short time there, out of a population of 8 million, until the slightly less nasty fellow Communist Vietnamese army defeated them, at which point they fled into the jungle. The Khmer Rouge are called that because they were mainly Khmer (the main ethnic group there) and 'Rouge' is French for 'red' (i.e., Communist).
KR were Cambodians; communist ones.
He was the leader of a Communist Party. The Khmer Rouge.
The Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia in 1975. Their leader was Pol Pot, who instituted a reign of terror in the country. It is estimated that three million people died before he Khmer Rouge was deposed in 1979.
Cambodia
Pol Pot's followers were called the Khmer Rouge. They were a radical communist group that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Under Pol Pot's leadership, the Khmer Rouge implemented brutal policies that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people.
The same as their communist allies, use what ever force was necessary to accomplish the objective.
If you mean to ask which country liberated Cambodia from Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge dictatorship in 1979, then that country is Vietnam. However, they did not remove the Khmer Rouge, they merely forced the top echelon to flee Phnom Penh and raised the subordinates to a new leadership position. The Khmer Rouge is still a faction in Cambodian politics today, but its position has been greatly weakened by the UN-brokered peace in Cambodia, which finalized in 1999.