NOUN
- 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
How To Use Communist Party of Kampuchea In A Sentence
- With the spread of internal purges inside the Communist Party of Kampuchea, having been a civil servant of a previous regime was no longer required to earn a death sentence; increasingly, civil servants or cadre from within Democratic Kampuchea itself were widely rounded up and terminated. The Death Toll in Cambodia: Quantifying Crimes Against Humanity (Craig Etcheson)
