Khmer Rouge

Members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea

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2018 Historian David P. Chandler conducted an interview clarifying that the Khmer Rouge atrocities were more accurately described as 'crimes against humanity' rather than genocide.
November 2018 A trial convicted Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan of crimes against humanity and genocide against the Vietnamese. Nuon Chea was additionally found guilty of genocide relating to the Chams.
August 7 2014 Cambodian judge Nil Nonn sentenced two former Khmer Rouge leaders, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, political persecution, and mass eviction of city-dwellers.

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Democratic Kampuchea

1975–1979 state in Southeast Asia

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