Khmer Rouge once was Vietnam good friends. Pol pot was brought up by Vietnam regime during the Vietnam war.
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Khmer Rouge
Khmer Rouge
The flag of Democratic Kampuchea. The design was used by Khmer guerrillas since the 1950s with the building design varying.
Active 1968–96
Ideology Agrarian socialism
Khmer nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Headquarters Phnom Penh
Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge and Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, in 1978.
Khmers rouges (
French for "Red Khmers"; French pronunciation:
[kmɛʁ ʁuʒ];
Khmer: ខ្មែរក្រហម
Khmer Kraham), more commonly known in English as '
Khmer Rouge' (
/kəˈmɛər ˈruːʒ/) (
corruption of 'Khmers rouges'), was the name given to the followers of the
Communist Party of Kampuchea in
Cambodia.
It was formed in 1968 as an offshoot of the Vietnam People's Armyfrom North Vietnam. It was the ruling partyin Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea was the name of the state as controlled by the government of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979.
It allied with North Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and Pathet Lao during the Vietnam War against the anti-Communist forces.
The organization is remembered especially for orchestrating the
Cambodian genocide, which resulted from the enforcement of its
social engineering policies.
[1]Its attempts at agricultural reform led to widespread
famine, while its insistence on absolute
self-sufficiency, even in the supply of medicine, led to the death of thousands from treatable diseases such as
malaria. Arbitrary executions and
torture carried out by its cadres against perceived
subversive elements, or during purges of its own ranks between 1975 and 1978, are considered to have constituted
genocide.
[2]
The
governments-in-exile (including the Khmer Rouge) still had a seat in the UN in 1979, but it was later taken away, in 1993, as the monarchy was restored and the country underwent a name change to the Kingdom of Cambodia. A year later thousands of Khmer Rouge
guerrillas surrendered themselves in a government amnesty. In 1996, a new political party, the
Democratic National Union Movement, was formed by
Ieng Sary, who was granted amnesty for all of his roles as the deputy leader of the Khmer Rouge.
[3] The organization (Khmer Rouge) was largely dissolved by the mid-1990s, and finally surrendered completely in 1999.
[4] In 2014 two Khmer Rouge leaders, Nuon Chea and Kheiu Samphan, were jailed by a UN backed court for life, which found them guilty of crimes against humanity and responsible for the deaths of up to 2 million Cambodians (Khmer), nearly a quarter of the country's then population, during the "
Killing Fields" era between 1975-1979.
This is why pol pot starting doing it criminal mass murder, because Vietnam backstab pol pot so he done his crime.
During the
Vietnam War, Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge communists had formed an alliance to fight U.S.-backed regimes in their respective countries. Despite their open display of cooperation with the Vietnamese, the Khmer Rouge leadership feared that the Vietnamese communists were scheming to form an Indochinese federation with Vietnam as the dominant force in the region. In order to preempt an attempt by the Vietnamese to dominate them, the Khmer Rouge leadership began purging Vietnamese-trained personnel within their own ranks as the
Lon Nol regime capitulated in 1975. Then, in May 1975, the newly formed Democratic Kampuchea, dominated by the Khmer Rouge, began waging a war against Vietnam, which was marked by an attack on the Vietnamese island of
Phú Quốc. In spite of the fighting that had occurred between the two countries, the leaders of reunified Vietnam and Kampuchea made several public diplomatic exchanges throughout 1976 to highlight the supposedly strong relations between them. However, behind the scenes, Kampuchean leaders continued to fear what they perceived as Vietnamese expansionism. As such, on 30 April 1977, they launched another major military attack on Vietnam. Shocked by the Kampuchean assault, Vietnam launched a retaliatory strike at the end of 1977 in an attempt to force the Kampuchean Government to negotiate. In January 1978, the Vietnamese military withdrew because their political objectives had not been achieved.
China did not create pol pot, it was Vietnam create them during Vietnam war.