Democratic Kampuchea

**Kampuchea**
កម្ពុជា (Khmer)
(1975–1976)
**Democratic Kampuchea**
កម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ (Khmer)
(1976–1982)
Kampuchea; កម្ពុជា (Khmer); (1975–1976) Democratic Kampuchea; កម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ (Khmer); (1976–1982)
1975–1982
	Top: (1975 - 76); Bottom: (1976 - 82) Emblem; (1975–82)
	Anthem: បទនគររាជ; Nôkôr Réach; "Majestic Kingdom"; (1975–1976) ដប់ប្រាំពីរមេសាមហាជោគជ័យ; Dâb Prămpir Mésa Môha Choŭkchoăy; "Victorious Seventeenth of April"; (1976–1982)
	Location of Democratic Kampuchea
Capital	Phnom Penh
Official languages	Khmer
Religion	State atheism
Demonym(s)	Kampuchean • Cambodian
Government	Unitary one-party socialist republic under a totalitarian dictatorship (under a coalition government from 75 - 76)
General Secretary
• 1975 - 1979	Pol Pot
Head of State
• 1975–1976	Norodom Sihanouk
• 1976 - 1979	Khieu Samphan
Prime Minister
• 1975 - 1976	Penn Nouth
• 1976	Khieu Samphan
• 1976 - 1979	Pol Pot
Legislature	People's Representative Assembly
Historical era	Cold War
• Fall of Phnom Penh	17 April 1975
• Proclamation	15 January 1976
• Vietnamese invasion	7 January 1979
• Establishment of the CGDK	22 June 1982
Area
	181,035 km2 (69,898 sq mi)
Currency	None
Driving side	right
Calling code	855
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Khmer Republic
People's Republic of Kampuchea
Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea
Today part of	Cambodia

Democratic Kampuchea was the official name of Cambodia/Kampuchea from 1976 to January 1979. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge ruled the country.

When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979 and took over the government, Democratic Kampuchea became the People's Republic of Kampuchea.

The Cambodian Genocide

See the main article: Cambodian Genocide

Around 2 million Cambodians died in Democratic Kampuchea during the Cambodian Genocide.^[4] This was around 25% of the population: one in every four people.^[5]

The Khmer Rouge mass-murdered hundreds of thousands of people in "killing fields," then buried them in mass graves.^[4]^[6] They also forced city populations into the countryside to work in labor camps, where many died from starvation, overwork, and disease.^[6]

End

In 1979, Vietnam invaded Cambodia in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. They removed the Khmer Rouge from power, and created a pro-Vietnamese government.^[7] This ended Democratic Kampuchea and the Cambodian genocide.

However, the international community continued to recognize Democratic Kampuchea as a country for ten more years.

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
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 "Khmer Rouge". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
↑
- Heuveline 2001, pp. 102–105: "As best as can now be estimated, over two million Cambodians died during the 1970s because of the political events of the decade, the vast majority of them during the mere four years of the 'Khmer Rouge' regime. This number of deaths is even more staggering when related to the size of the Cambodian population, then less than eight million. ... Subsequent reevaluations of the demographic data situated the death toll for the [civil war] in the order of 300,000 or less."
- Kiernan 2003b, pp. 586–587: "We may safely conclude, from known pre- and post-genocide population figures and from professional demographic calculations, that the 1975–79 death toll was between 1.671 and 1.871 million people, 21 to 24 percent of Cambodia's 1975 population."
- Sullivan, Meg (16 April 2015). "UCLA demographer produces best estimate yet of Cambodia's death toll under Pol Pot". UCLA. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- Tyner, James A.; Molana, Hanieh Haji (1 March 2020). "Ideologies of Khmer Rouge Family Policy: Contextualizing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence during the Cambodian Genocide". Genocide Studies International. 13 (2): 168–189. doi:10.3138/gsi.13.2.03. ISSN 2291-1847. S2CID 216505042. Archived from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 Khmer Rouge leader admits crimes
↑ "Vietnam's forgotten Cambodian war". BBC News. 2014-09-14. Retrieved 2024-10-26.

[1] Jackson, Karl D. (1989). Cambodia, 1975–1978: Rendezvous with Death. Princeton University Press. p. 219. ISBN 0-691-02541-X.

[2] "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.

[kiernanxix-3] Kiernan, B. (2004) How Pol Pot came to Power. New Haven: Yale University Press, p. xix

[:9-4] 4.0 ^4.1 "Khmer Rouge". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2024-10-24.

[5] 
Heuveline 2001, pp. 102–105: "As best as can now be estimated, over two million Cambodians died during the 1970s because of the political events of the decade, the vast majority of them during the mere four years of the 'Khmer Rouge' regime. This number of deaths is even more staggering when related to the size of the Cambodian population, then less than eight million. ... Subsequent reevaluations of the demographic data situated the death toll for the [civil war] in the order of 300,000 or less."
Kiernan 2003b, pp. 586–587: "We may safely conclude, from known pre- and post-genocide population figures and from professional demographic calculations, that the 1975–79 death toll was between 1.671 and 1.871 million people, 21 to 24 percent of Cambodia's 1975 population."
Sullivan, Meg (16 April 2015). "UCLA demographer produces best estimate yet of Cambodia's death toll under Pol Pot". UCLA. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
Tyner, James A.; Molana, Hanieh Haji (1 March 2020). "Ideologies of Khmer Rouge Family Policy: Contextualizing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence during the Cambodian Genocide". Genocide Studies International. 13 (2): 168–189. doi:10.3138/gsi.13.2.03. ISSN 2291-1847. S2CID 216505042. Archived from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2022.

[6] Heuveline 2001, pp. 102–105: "As best as can now be estimated, over two million Cambodians died during the 1970s because of the political events of the decade, the vast majority of them during the mere four years of the 'Khmer Rouge' regime. This number of deaths is even more staggering when related to the size of the Cambodian population, then less than eight million. ... Subsequent reevaluations of the demographic data situated the death toll for the [civil war] in the order of 300,000 or less."

[7] Kiernan 2003b, pp. 586–587: "We may safely conclude, from known pre- and post-genocide population figures and from professional demographic calculations, that the 1975–79 death toll was between 1.671 and 1.871 million people, 21 to 24 percent of Cambodia's 1975 population."

[8] Sullivan, Meg (16 April 2015). "UCLA demographer produces best estimate yet of Cambodia's death toll under Pol Pot". UCLA. Retrieved 12 April 2024.

[9] Tyner, James A.; Molana, Hanieh Haji (1 March 2020). "Ideologies of Khmer Rouge Family Policy: Contextualizing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence during the Cambodian Genocide". Genocide Studies International. 13 (2): 168–189. doi:10.3138/gsi.13.2.03. ISSN 2291-1847. S2CID 216505042. Archived from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2022.

[:0-6] 6.0 ^6.1 Khmer Rouge leader admits crimes

[:15-7] "Vietnam's forgotten Cambodian war". BBC News. 2014-09-14. Retrieved 2024-10-26.

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