khmer rouge in English

noun
1
a communist guerrilla organization that opposed the Cambodian government in the 1960s and waged a civil war from 1970, taking power in 1975.

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1. The Khmer Rouge didn't believe in money.

2. And freedom from persecution from the Khmer Rouge.

3. And here is a picture of the Khmer Rouge.

4. The Khmer Rouge closes the doors to the outside world.

5. In 1968, the Khmer Rouge launched a national insurgency across Cambodia.

6. Another important goal was the trial of senior Khmer Rouge leaders.

7. Ke Pauk was one of the senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge.

8. The Khmer Rouge takeover was catastrophic for the Chinese community for several reasons.

9. The Khmer Rouge destroyed the legal and judicial structures of the Khmer Republic.

10. Unlike most of the leaders of Khmer Rouge, Chea did not study in Paris.

11. Sihanouk, opposing the new government, entered into an alliance with the Khmer Rouge against them.

12. You see, the Khmer Rouge looked to Cambodia, and they saw centuries of rigid inequality.

13. In many villages, Khmer Rouge informers warn them if government troops are in the area.

14. The Khmer Rouge forced Muslims to eat pork, which they regard as forbidden (ḥarām).

15. Just as the last boat pulled away, Khmer Rouge soldiers appeared and shot at us.

16. It is the birthplace of Nuon Chea, one of the leaders of the Khmer Rouge.

17. The Khmer Rouge kept the government forces at bay until 1996, when troops started deserting.

18. Tourists photograph skulls at a memorial for the victims of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

19. The leadership of the Khmer Rouge was largely unchanged between the 1960s and the mid-1990s.

20. Leaders of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million in the 1970 s.

21. 12 November: Vietnamese attacks opposite Ban Laem drove 5,000 Khmer Rouge troops and villagers into Thailand.

22. Mayaguez arrived off Poulo Wai at approximately 16:00 and a further 20 Khmer Rouge boarded the vessel.

23. The strategy of the Khmer Rouge was to gradually cut those lines of communication and squeeze Phnom Penh.

24. 15 Why, after a campaign punctuated by sporadic Khmer Rouge attacks, was the election allowed to proceed relatively peacefully?

25. Our boat often ventured into Cambodian waters, where there were more fish —as well as Khmer Rouge patrol boats.

26. Well to explain that, I've got a short video clip to explain the Khmer Rouge regime during 1975 and 1979.

27. Government in Ratanakiri is weak, largely due to the province's remoteness, ethnic diversity, and recent history of Khmer Rouge dominance.

28. The Khmer Rouge fired across the bow of Mayaguez and when Captain Charles T. Miller ordered the engine room to slow down to maneuvering speed to avoid the machine-gun fire, the Khmer Rouge then fired a rocket-propelled grenade across the bow of the ship.

29. Autarky is rare in the modern world, but some examples include Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and India prior to 1991

30. And my parents were told by the Khmer Rouge to evacuate the city because of impending American bombing for three days.

31. This usually occurred when towns and villages were under Khmer Rouge control, and food was strictly rationed, leading to widespread starvation.

32. Educated people had to hide their condition and many were murdered when Khmer Rouge cadres found out about their former background.

33. So the Khmer Rouge took us from a place called Pursat to Kaoh Tiev, which is across from the border from Vietnam.

34. Some commentators state that the experience is likely to have contributed to the brutality shown by the Khmer Rouge cadres in later events.

35. Villagers were forced outside of main towns to escape the bombings, foraging for food and living on the run with the Khmer Rouge.

36. Cambodia has gradually recovered demographically and economically from the Khmer Rouge regime, although the psychological scars affect many Cambodian families and émigré communities

37. In the four years that the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, it was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century

38. Youk Channg is the director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which is compiling evidence on the Khmer Rouge regime ahead of the upcoming trials.

39. It is noteworthy that Cambodia has a very young population, and by 2003 three-quarters of Cambodians were too young to remember the Khmer Rouge era.

40. The Cambodian Genocide Program has collected information on members of Khmer Rouge political and military organizations, and gathered this data together into a Biographic database

41. The Khmer Rouge also established "liberated" areas in the south and the southwestern parts of the country, where they operated independently of the North Vietnamese.

42. During the Khmer Rouge years (1975–1979) prostitution was completely banned and punishable by death resulting in its virtual elimination in a highly authoritarian social system.

43. After the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, PAVN cut off the supply of arms to the Khmer Rouge, hoping to force them into a cease-fire.

44. Since Cambodian writers were largely from an urban background, they were among the people expelled from the cities in 1975 after the victory of the Khmer Rouge.

45. In fact, under the Khmer Rouge, nearly 1.7 million Cambodians were executed on the so-called killing fields or died as a result of overwork, disease, or starvation.

46. The Khmer Rouge were heavily influenced by Maoism, the French Communist Party and the writings of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin as well as ideas of Khmer racial superiority.

47. Heir to the ancient Khmer Empire, modern-day Cambodia is benefiting from two decades of relative stability, having endured civil war and the murderous rule of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s.

48. As the Khmer Rouge controlled the east bank of the Mekong opposite Phnom Penh, the command group selected LZ Hotel, a soccer field about 900 metres (3,000 ft) north-east of the embassy.

49. As a part of the peace effort, United Nations-sponsored elections were held in 1993 helped restore some semblance of normality as did the rapid diminishment of the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1990s.

50. After 1985 Sutsakhan was to meet with Son Sen of the Khmer Rouge and Prince Norodom Ranarridh, Sihanouk's son, who commanded FUNCINPEC's military arm, the Armée Nationale Sihanoukiste (ANS), to arrange military cooperation between the three movements.