Khmer Rouge sounds like a restaurant chain but actually refers to a ruling movement which made life in Cambodia utterly miserable. For four years Pol Pot, a Marxist leader, tried to force his people back into rural agricultural practices.
He had been influenced by seeing the self sufficiency of hill tribes in the remote north east of his country. Under the mental sway of Chinese communists Pol Pot thought the lack of materialism would benefit the country, so forced his countrymen back from the cities. They died in large numbers from exhaustion and abuse.
Cambodia-khmer was the ruling political party of cambodiawhich it renamed the democratic kampucheafrom 1975 to 1979.the term khmer rouge, meaning red khmer in french, was coined by cambodian head of state norodom sihanouk and was later adopted by english speakers. it was used to refer to a succession of communist parties in cambodia which evolved into the communist party of kampuchea (cpk) and later the party of democratic kampuchea. the organization was also known as the khmer communist party and the national army of democratic kampuchea.
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