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Democratic Kampuchea
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| Capital | Not specified | |||
| Language(s) | Khmer language | |||
| Government | Socialist republic | |||
| Leader | Pol Pot | |||
| Historical era | Cold War | |||
| - Civil War | 1967-1975 | |||
| - Established | April 17, 1975 | |||
| - Fall of Phnom Pehn | January 7, 1979 | |||
| - Monarchy restored | 1993-09-24 | |||
Democratic Kampuchea (French:Kampuchea démocratique) was a Southeast Asian nation that existed between 1975 and 1979. The government was firmly in the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge extremist group.
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The Republican government, after five years of savage fighting (and after suffering massive casualties, the destruction of its economy, the starvation of its population, and grevious atrocities committed by its enemy), was defeated on 17 April 1975.[1] The victorious Khmer Rouge proclaimed the establishment of Democratic Kampuchea. This conflict, although an indigenous civil war, was considered to be part of the larger Second Indochina War (1960-1975).
The war was over, but the terrible dreams of the Khmer Rouge were about to come to fruition in the newly-proclaimed Democratic Kampuchea. Khmer Rouge troops immediately began to forcibly empty the capital, driving the population into the countryside and killing thousands in the process. The Year Zero had begun.
The Khmer Rouge was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people through execution and forced labor.[2] Although directly responsible for the death of a large amount of that number the policies of the Khmer Rouge led many others to die from starvation and exposure of the deceased. [3] In terms of the number of people killed as a proportion of the population of the country it ruled, it was one of the most lethal regimes of the 20th century.
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