It also became the name for the radical
Cambodian
Communist Party, founded in 1967.
In 1975 and led by
Pol Pot, the Khmer
Rouge toppled the Cambodian government and established their
Democratic Kampuchea.
In 1979, Vietnamese troops invaded
Cambodia and ended the rule of the Khmer Rouge, who became guerilla
fighters. However, it took until 1997 to arrest Pol Pot.
September 19, 2007 - An update from the International Herald Tribune:
Khmer Rouge ideologue arrested, 3
decades later
The police in Cambodia arrested
on Wednesday the highest ranking surviving leader of the brutal
Khmer Rouge regime to face charges in the deaths of 1.7 million
people from 1975 to 1979.
The leader, Nuon Chea, 82, was the chief ideologue of the movement
and "Brother No. 2" to Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge chieftain who died
in 1998.
Khmer Rouge trials set to start Feb 15 - An international tribunal that will try five senior Pol Pot
cadres gets underway in Cambodia on Tuesday after years of
preparation.
Thirty years after the fall of Cambodia's 'Killing Fields' regime
surviving senior henchmen of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot are to be
tried on charges relating to the deaths of 1.7 million people.
November 21, 2011 - NY Times update:
Prosecutors
Describe Khmer Rouge Leaders’ ‘Organized and
Systematic’ Atrocities
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Opening statements in
the most significant stage of a United
Nations-backed trial of Khmer Rouge leaders
began here on Monday...
November 21, 2011
- Washington Post / Associated Press update:
Prosecutor at Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge trial
says henchmen cannot shift blame to Pol Pot
This
combination of three photos released by
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia, shows from left to right:
Nuon Chea,
former Khmer Rouge’s chief ideologist and
the No. 2 leader,
Ieng Sary, former Khmer Rouge
foreign minister, and
Khieu Samphan, former Khmer
Rouge head of state, during a trial for
former Khmer Rouge top leaders, in Phnom
Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011.
The three top
Khmer Rouge leaders accused of orchestrating
Cambodia's "killing fields" went on trial
Monday before a U.N.-backed tribunal more
than three decades after some of the 20th
century’s worst atrocities.
Extraordinary
Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Mark
Peters / Associated Press
