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 - And this is just in
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.
This one's just in from Reuters, February 15,
2009
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.
