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Khmer Rouge

followers of the Communist Party, Maoists of Kampuchea in Cambodia (until 1998)

22 dated entries naming Khmer Rouge, drawn from 13 separate years between 1925 CE and 2014 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1925May 19 – Pol Pot, Cambodian Stalinist dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge (died 1998)source
  • 1967March 11 – The first phase of the Cambodian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.source
  • 1970October 9 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia, escalating the Cambodian Civil War between the government and the Khmer Rouge.source
  • 197426 February – Cambodian Civil War – Battle of Kampot: The Khmer Rouge began a military operation in Kampot after taking several Lon Nol territories fallen to Angkar like the previous victories of Operation Chenla II.source
  • 197422 March - Oudong was captured by Angkar's Khmer Rouge forcing many citizens to march into the countryside, as well as executing a large number of prisoners.source
  • 1975April 17 – The Khmer Republic surrenders, when the Communist Khmer Rouge guerilla forces capture Phnom Penh ending the Cambodian Civil War, with mass evacuation of American troops and Cambodian civilians.source
  • 1975April 17 - Following several weeks of successful fighting, the government of Cambodia surrendered at 7:00 in the morning to the Khmer Rouge guerillas when they captured Phnom Penh. That evening, sound trucks operated by the new regime began warning Phnom Penh residents of an imminent bombing attack and directing them to flee the city into the countryside. This would be the start of the Cambodian genocide after it was declared the year 1975 as Year Zero of which Angkar had established.source
  • 1975April 18 – The Khmer Rouge begins a forcible mass evacuation of the city and starts the Cambodian genocide.source
  • 1976January 5 - The government of Democratic Kampuchea was proclaimed and constituted as a Communist People's Republic, and a 250-member Assembly of the Representatives of the People of Kampuchea (PRA) was selected in March to choose the collective leadership of a State Presidium, the chairman of which became the head of state within the CPK, the Paris-educated leadership of Saloth Sâr (Pol Pot) was in control over Cambodia which had become Southeast Asia's secretive and most isolated totalitarian country from the rest of the world after North Korea which proceeded to implement the policy of Year Zero led by Angkar and its Khmer Rouge cadres, with these relationships were based on shared Marxist-Leninist and Maoist ideology, Democratic Kampuchea had very close ties with North Korea and China, while Burma (Myanmar) recognized the government.source
  • 1976May 1 - Tuol Svay Prey High School had transformed into "Security Prison 21" or S-21 was opened by the secret police (Santebal) of Angkar which became an extermination center, death camp for the Khmer Rouge guards to torture and kill others which included political prisoners and party cadres, with the executions first took place in the Killing Fields at Choeung Ek; all religious practices are banned in Cambodian society such as practice, worship and prayer, as many of Buddhist monks were labeled as "parasites" and forced to disrobe and perform hard manual labor, which estimates that 25,000 to 50,000 monks (including Huot Tat) were killed by Angkar, with 2,000 Buddhist temples (wats) were destroyed, desecrated, or repurposed as storage units, prisons, and even execution centers, the Khmer Rouge aimed to replace traditional spiritual identity with total loyalty to Angkar.source
  • 1977January 6 - The first anniversary of the establishment of Democratic Kampuchea as the totalitarian society since the Fall of Phnom Penh after the Cambodian Civil War had ended, China and North Korea provided a significant support to Angkar and the Khmer Rouge, with China as the main backer while North Korea became lesser extent by its diplomatic relations with a very strong support of Communist allies who learned the same lines with Marxist-Leninist ideology in the Far East.source
  • 1977February 17 - The French newspaper Le Monde reported that the Khmer Rouge had systematically executed all officials from the previous government by the ruling Maoist entity of Angkar Padevat (The Revolutionary Organization), both the flags of Democratic Kampuchea and Vietnam share a common Marxist-Leninist aesthetic, with both relying on a bold red background to symbolize the revolution and the struggles for national liberation, the yellow silhouette of a three-towered temple represented Kampuchean tradition and agricultural prosperity by the representative of the ancient Angkor Wat adapted by the Khmer Rouge guerrillas in the 1950s before it was constituted to become a new state flag on 5 January 1976 as part of socialist movement, blood, and the resolute struggle of the Kampuchean people for liberation and state-building to evoke the idea that the "new" revolutionary people of Cambodia could rebuild a powerful medieval state, it remains unique among communist state flags for featuring a national/religious heritage monument instead of a star or a hammer and sickle that was used by Stalin and Mao.source
  • 1978February 14 - Both leaders from North Korea and Communist China had sided with Cambodia to maintain its own independent standing within the "communist world" and to support its "revolutionary comrade-in-arms", with Kim Il Sung and Deng Xiaoping provided critical support to Angkar and the Khmer Rouge, as their motivations and the nature of their relationships with Pol Pot as "Brother Number One" that implemented an extremist form of Maoism, drawing direct inspiration from China's Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution especially Red August to Cambodia's Super Great Leap Forward ("Moha Lout Plaoh").source
  • 1978March 10 - The leadership of "Angkar," had fostered a cult of personality centered on the "Supreme authority", which continues omnipresent and demanded complete loyalty to the "Communist Party of Kampuchea" (CPK), the People's Republic of China was the primary benefactor of the military provided by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) with the vast majority of its external support from China, while North Korea (DPRK) also served as a significant and loyal ally to the Khmer Rouge, though its material contributions were secondary to those from Beijing, with Pyongyang became generally the second-largest trading partner after China, which both maintained strong, unique ties of the geopolitical alliances between the two nations.source
  • 1978April 18– 30 – The Khmer Rouge massacres 3,157 civilians in Ba Chúc, Vietnam.source
  • 1978December 25 – Vietnam launches a major offensive against the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia.source
  • 1979January 7 – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: The People's Army of Vietnam and Vietnamese-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area along the Thai border, ending large-scale fighting.source
  • 1979January 7 - The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) (led by Lê Duẩn) and moderate dissidents from the Khmer Rouge (led by Heng Samrin) advanced and captured the city of Phnom Penh. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge are pushed out of the capital and begin a guerrilla war in the forests near the Thai border.source
  • 1991October 23 – In Paris, the Vietnam-backed government of the state of Cambodia signs an agreement with the Khmer Rouge to end the civil war and bring the Khmer Rouge into power despite its role in the Cambodian genocide. The deal ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War and results in the creation of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia.source
  • 1997June 10 – Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.source
  • 1998December 29 – The Khmer Rouge's leaders apologize for the post-Vietnam War genocide in Cambodia that killed more than one million people in the 1970s.source

21st century

  • 2014August 7 – Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are found guilty of crimes against humanity and are sentenced to life imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.source

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