Khmer Rouge

State · 1976–1978 CE · at its largest around 1976 CE

Cambodia under the Communist Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea under Pol Pot. Their radical regime caused the deaths of a large share of the population and was overthrown by Vietnam in 1979.

On its lands while it lasted

• Saigon (1862–1976 CE): Capital of French Indochina (1887–1954).
• Pol Pot (1925 CE – 1998 CE): Leader of the Khmer Rouge and of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979, whose regime was responsible for the Cambodian genocide.
• Cambodian genocide (1975–1979 CE): Under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians died from execution, forced labour and starvation.

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