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Democratic Kampuchea [a] was the official name of the Cambodian state from 1976 to 1979, under the government of Pol Pot and the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), commonly known as the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge's capture of the capital Phnom Penh in 1975 effectively ended the United States-backed Khmer Republic of Lon Nol .
The Khmer Rouge then fled to Thailand, whose government saw them as a buffer force against the Communist Party of Vietnam. The Khmer Rouge continued to fight against the Vietnamese and the government of the new People's Republic of Kampuchea until the end of the war in 1989.
The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), [a] also known as the Khmer Communist Party, [9] was a communist party in Cambodia. Its leader was Pol Pot , and its members were generally known as the Khmer Rouge .
Its followers were generally called Khmer Rouge. At the time of the formation of the PDK, the Khmer Rouge forces had been pushed back by the Vietnamese-backed KPRP government to an area near the Thai border. The PDK began cooperating with other anti-Vietnamese factions and formed the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea in 1982.
After the Khmer Rouge regime was overthrown, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was unhappy [9] with Vietnam's influence over the PRK government. Deng proposed to Sihanouk that he co-operate with the Khmer Rouge to overthrow the PRK government, but Sihanouk rejected it, [10] as he opposed the genocidal policies pursued by the Khmer Rouge while they were in power. [9]
Survivors of the Khmer Rouge are some of the most vocal opponents to the Cambodian People's Party that has ruled the country for almost 40 years.
The Khmer Rouge government adopted the mysterious term Angkar, or 'the organisation', and the identities of its leaders remained confidential until 1977. [34] The official head of state was Khieu Samphan, but the two men in control of the party were Pol Pot and Ieng Sary. [35]
The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish stability and democracy after decades of war and unrest, said Friday that it will stop publishing in print this ...