Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun khmer_rouge

1 sense of khmer rouge

Sense 1
Khmer Rouge, KR, Party of Democratic Kampuchea, Communist Party of Kampuchea -- (a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999)
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)