Cambodian Genocide
The Khmer Rouge period (1975–1979) refers to the rule of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan and the Khmer Rouge Communist party over Cambodia, which the Khmer Rouge renamed as Democratic Kampuchea.
The four-year period cost approximately 2 million lives through the combined result of political executions, starvation, and forced labor. Due to the large numbers, the deaths during the rule of the Khmer Rouge are often considered a genocide, and commonly known as the Cambodian Holocaust or Cambodian Genocide. The Khmer Rouge period ended with the invasion of Cambodia by neighbour and former ally Vietnam in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War, which left Cambodia under Vietnamese occupation for a decade.
Read more about Cambodian Genocide: Politics, Establishing The Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea, Societal Transformation, Economy, Education and Health, Evacuation of The Cities, Terror, Number of Deaths, Religious Communities, Ethnic Minorities, International Relations, The Fall of Democratic Kampuchea