Democratic Kampuchea
Democratic Kampuchea was the official name of Cambodia/Kampuchea from 1976 to January 1979, during the Khmer Rouge Years, though the international community recognized it for ten more years. Its leader was Pol Pot, and its national anthem (song) was Dap Prampi Mesa Chokchey. It was succeeded by the People's Republic of Kampuchea upon the Vietnamese invasion in 1979. While Democratic Kampuchea existed, about 20% of its population died either because of starvation, brutality, or execution. The four-year period saw the deaths of approximately two million Cambodians through the combined result of political executions, starvation, and forced labour.[4][5] Due to the large numbers, the deaths during the rule of the Khmer Rouge are often considered a genocide, and commonly known as the Cambodian Holocaust or Cambodian Genocide. The Khmer Rouge period ended with the invasion of Cambodia by neighbour and former ally Vietnam in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War, which left Cambodia under Vietnamese occupation for a decade.
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.svg) Location of Democratic Kampuchea | |||||||||||
| Capital | Phnom Penh | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Khmer | ||||||||||
| Government | Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic under a totalitarian dictatorship[1][2][3] | ||||||||||
| Party General Secretary | |||||||||||
• 1976–1979 | Pol Pot | ||||||||||
| President of the State Presidium | |||||||||||
• 1975–1976 | Norodom Sihanouk | ||||||||||
• 1976–1979 | Khieu Samphan | ||||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||||
• 1976–1979 | Pol Pot | ||||||||||
• 1976 | Nuon Chea (interim) | ||||||||||
| Legislature | People's Representative Assembly | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | ||||||||||
• | 17 April 1975 | ||||||||||
• Proclamation | 15 January 1976 | ||||||||||
• | 7 January 1979 | ||||||||||
| 22 June 1982 | |||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| 181,035 km2 (69,898 sq mi) | |||||||||||
| Currency | None as money was abolished | ||||||||||
| Driving side | right | ||||||||||
| Calling code | 855 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Cambodia | ||||||||||
Democratic Kampuchea Media
- Banner of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.svg
The flag of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), the political arm of the Khmer Rouge
- Khmer Rouge Administrative Zones for Democratic Kampuchea, 1975-78.png
Administrative zones of Democratic Kampuchea
- Khmer Rouge Victims.JPG
Remains of victims of the Khmer Rouge in the Kampong Trach Cave, Kiry Seila Hills, Rung Tik (Water Cave) or Rung Khmao (Dead Cave).
- Choeungek2 (square).JPG
Skulls of Genocide victims
- Kang Kek Iew (Kaing Guek Eav or Duch) before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia - 20091126.jpg
Kang Kek Iew (Kaing Guek Eav or Duch) before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- Nicolae Ceaușescu with Pol Pot.jpg
Pol Pot meeting with Romanian Marxist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu during the latter's visit to Cambodia in 1978
- MayagüezIncident1.jpg
Aerial surveillance photo showing two Khmer Rouge gunboats during the initial seizing of the SS Mayaguez
- Tuolsleng1.JPG
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (formerly Security Prison S-21)
References
- ↑ Jackson, Karl D. (1989). Cambodia, 1975–1978: Rendezvous with Death. Princeton University Press. p. 219. ISBN 0-691-02541-X.
- ↑ "Khmer Rouge's Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide". The New York Times. 15 November 2018. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ↑ Kiernan, B. (2004) How Pol Pot came to Power. New Haven: Yale University Press, p. xix
- ↑ Khmer Rouge leader admits crimes
- ↑ Noam Chomsky on Cambodia under Pol Pot