Khmer Rouge

[ kmair roozh, kuh-mair ]

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noun

, plural Khmers Rouges [kmair, , roozh, k, uh, -, mair]

a Cambodian guerrilla and rebel force and political opposition movement, originally Communist and Communist-backed.
a member or supporter of this force.

Khmer Rouge

/ ruːʒ /

noun

the Kampuchean communist party, which seized power (1975) in a civil war: in exile since 1979, dispersed in 1999

Khmer Rouge

The communist movement in Kampuchea ( Cambodia ) in Southeast Asia . It came to power in 1975.

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Notes

Led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, after it came to power, instituted one of the worst examples of genocide in world history. Estimates of the number of people killed under this regime vary from two million to four million.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Khmer Rouge¹

< French Khmer (or Khmère ) rouge literally, red Khmer

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Example Sentences

Indochina, East Timor, the Shah, our brief covert support for the Khmer Rouge.

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The brutal Khmer Rouge regime has left physical and mental scars across Cambodia.

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As one regional newspaper observed, the Khmer Rouge trial has been met with “widespread indifference” in Cambodia.

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It was the first conviction of a Khmer Rouge criminal by the UN-backed commission.

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She stands with families who are being brutally driven off their lands with methods similar to those of the Khmer Rouge.

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