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KHMER ROUGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Khmer Rouge mean? 

KHMER ROUGE (noun)
  The noun KHMER ROUGE has 1 sense:

1. 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 1999play

  Familiarity information: KHMER ROUGE used as a noun is very rare.


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KHMER ROUGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Communist Party of Kampuchea; Khmer Rouge; KR; Party of Democratic Kampuchea

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Cambodia; Kampuchea; Kingdom of Cambodia (a nation in southeastern Asia; was part of Indochina under French rule until 1946)


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