The Khmer Rouge period (1975-1979) referred to the rule of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Sun Sen, Khieu Samphan and the Khmer Rouge Communist Party over Cambodia, which the Khmer Rouge renamed Democratic Kampuchea.
The four-year period saw the deaths of about two million Cambodians as a result of a combination of political killings, starvation and forced labor. Due to this large number of deaths during the Khmer Rouge regime, it was often considered genocide and was commonly known as the Khmer Holocaust or the Khmer Genocide. The Khmer Rouge era ended with the invasion of Cambodia by neighboring and former allies Vietnam in the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, which left Cambodia under Vietnamese occupation for a decade.
The Khmer Rouge was the name popularly given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name had originally been used in the 1950s by Norodom Sihanouk as a blanket. term for the Cambodian left. The Khmer Rouge period refers to the rule of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan, and the Communist Party of Kampuchea over Cambodia, which the Khmer Rouge renamed Democratic Kampuchea.
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