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Khmer Rouge
[ kmair roozh, kuh-mair ]
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
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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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