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Khmer Rouge
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Khmer Rouge a communist guerrilla organization which opposed the Cambodian government in the 1960s and waged a civil war from 1970, taking power in 1975. Under Pol Pot the Khmer Rouge undertook a forced reconstruction of Cambodian society, involving mass deportations from the towns to the countryside and mass executions (see
killing field).
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Cambodia says bringing Khmer Rouge to justice depends on U.N.
Newspaper article from: Asian Political News; 8/5/2002; 700+ words
; ...responsibility if aging former Khmer Rouge leaders die before they can be...up a tribunal, surviving Khmer Rouges leaders may be dead by the time...Minister Hun Sen in bringing the aged Khmer Rouge leaders to justice. The U.N...
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Khmer Rouge Returns To Cambodian Capital, Says `Past Is History'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/18/1991; ; 700+ words
; The Khmer Rouge, whose radical communist regime has...Khieu Samphan, who was among the Khmer Rouge leadership when the group took power...factions opposed to it, including the Khmer Rouge. The various countries involved in the...
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Khmer Rouge Split After Defection of Top Leaders
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 8/13/1996; 700+ words
; ...0000 Long-time leader of the Khmer Rouge, Ieng Sary, may rise above his...Cambodia, have long been prized Khmer Rouge strongholds. Government troops...Malai through the defections of two Khmer Rouge commanders. Government spokesman...
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Khmer Rouge Move Toward War; Still Led by Pol Pot, Cambodian Communists Seek to Ruin Election
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/10/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...unfathomable. As the real leader of the Khmer Rouge, he is the man behind the radical...according to analysts who monitor Khmer Rouge radio broadcasts and interpret...badly digested Maoism," the Khmer Rouge seem divorced from reality, still...
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Khmer Rouge Trial Riles Cambodia
News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/7/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Writer AP Online 01-07-1999 Khmer Rouge Trial Riles Cambodia PAILIN, Cambodia...favor of a trial for the last two Khmer Rouge leaders to surrender -- the top...western city largely controlled by Khmer Rouge supporters. Ee Chhean, one of...
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Khmer Rouge defendant: US policy benefited regime
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/6/2009; ; 700+ words
; The former chief of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison said...regime, Duch said. I think the Khmer Rouge would already have been demolished...leader Lon Nol), and then the Khmer Rouge noted the golden opportunity...
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Khmer Rouge chief faces life in prison.
Magazine article from: Vietnam Investment Review; 3/15/1999; 700+ words
; ...Ta Mok mopped up the last of the Khmer Rouge leaders, but the international...responsibility for the killings. The Khmer Rouge defeated a US-backed government...last week whether Ta Mok and other Khmer Rouge leaders should appear before an...
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Khmer Rouge Threaten To Resume Fighting; Radical Faction Lets Election Deadline Pass
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/29/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...15-month-old peace process, Khmer Rouge guerrillas in northwestern Cambodia...government after the election. Some Khmer Rouge officials have said that UNTAC...Vietnamese," said Ngin, 23, a Khmer Rouge veteran who claims to have killed...
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KHMER ROUGE SAID VIOLATING PEACE PACT.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/11/1991; 700+ words
; ...Times The Communist guerrilla group Khmer Rouge is hiding troops and a huge cache...refugees crossing into Thailand, the Khmer Rouge has put aside enough weapons and...of the threat still posed by the Khmer Rouge and its leader, Pol Pot. During...
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Khmer Rouge Balks, Halts Peace Process; Cambodian Guerrillas Refuse to Demobilize
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/13/1992; ; 700+ words
; The Khmer Rouge guerrillas have refused to join the U...minister of the Phnom Penh government. Khmer Rouge leaders were "demanding the dismantling...which is that it relies heavily on Khmer Rouge acquiescence to measures that would tend...
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Khmer Rouge
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge (Cambodian for “...come to be known as the Killing Fields. Khmer Rouge thought placed particular attention to...closed to the outside world. In 1979, the Khmer Rouge was ousted from power by a Vietnamese...
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Khmer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Sihanouk, abolished the monarchy, and established the Khmer Republic. In the early 1970s the country was in...and Communist revolutionaries commonly known as the Khmer Rouge. In 1975 the Khmer Rouge triumphed and renamed the country Democratic...
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Hill Tribespeople
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...and early 1970s, the Communist Khmer Rouge were able to recruit a number of...became the prototype (model) of the Khmer Rouge army. Like other Cambodians...some groups were recruited by the Khmer Rouge as soldiers, others fought to escape...
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Hun Sen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Cambodian followers. Member of the Khmer Rouge Already in late 1968 Hun Sen formally...CPK, conventionally called the "Khmer Rouge." Cadre course training...ally themselves with Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in the struggle against Lon Nol...
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Killing Fields
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...synonymous with the country ’ s Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia from...Agricultural production was key to the Khmer Rouge ’ s plans for Cambodia...Power, and Genocide under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 – 1979 . New Haven...
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