The Khmer Rouge was a communist-led insurgent and later ruling party in Cambodia, founded in 1951 and led by Pol Pot. It ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, implementing radical social engineering that resulted in the Cambodian genocide, with 1.5 to 2 million deaths. The group was defeated in 1979 but continued as an insurgency until 1999.
CRIMENET has extracted 57 linkages for this organization, including 39 cooperative ties across 9 organizations, 16 conflicts across 5 organizations, 2 other connections and footprints in 3 countries.
its forces provided shelter and weapons to the Khmer Rouge after the insurgency started.
The Khmer Rouge then fled to Thailand, whose government saw them as a buffer force against the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).
In January, the center ordered eastern and southeastern zone troops to conduct cross-border raids into Vietnam.