Noun: Khmer Rouge ku,mehr'roozh
- A communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999
- KR, Party of Democratic Kampuchea, Communist Party of Kampuchea
Type of: foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization
Encyclopedia: Khmer Rouge