Pol Pot
Pol Pot
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.
Khmer Rouge began in 1975 and ended in 1979.
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The notorious Khmer Rouge regime was overthrown by the Vietnamese in 1979.
Khmer is what Cambodian people are called and rouge means red in French
Kampuchea is the former name of Cambodia when it was ruled by the Khmer Rouge party.
The Khmer Rouge are a revolutionary faction that has never net succeeded in seizing power.
Millions of people who opposed the Khmer Rouge were killed.
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).
Pol Pot was the main leader of the Khmer Rouge. Yet, he was not the only. Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan were also heads of the Khmer Rouge.
Communist guerrilla forces in Camodia were called the Khmer Rouge.