Khmer Rouge
a Cambodian guerrilla and rebel force and political opposition movement, originally Communist and Communist-backed.
a member or supporter of this force.
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How to use Khmer Rouge in a sentence
So I remember well the ones I did, and the return of the Angkorian-era statues from the Koh Ker temple, looted during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, was among them.
Vice Media Group is facing fierce backlash after publishing photographs of victims of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime that were digitally colorized and altered to show some of them smiling.
Vice published altered photos showing Cambodian genocide victims smiling. It unleashed an uproar. | Paulina Villegas | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostIndochina, East Timor, the Shah, our brief covert support for the Khmer Rouge.
The brutal Khmer Rouge regime has left physical and mental scars across Cambodia.
As one regional newspaper observed, the Khmer Rouge trial has been met with “widespread indifference” in Cambodia.
It was the first conviction of a Khmer Rouge criminal by the UN-backed commission.
She stands with families who are being brutally driven off their lands with methods similar to those of the Khmer Rouge.
British Dictionary definitions for Khmer Rouge
/ (ruːʒ) /
the Kampuchean communist party, which seized power (1975) in a civil war: in exile since 1979, dispersed in 1999
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Cultural definitions for Khmer Rouge
[ (kuh-mair roohzh) ]
The communist movement in Kampuchea (Cambodia) in Southeast Asia. It came to power in 1975.
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