Source : WordNet®

Khmer Rouge
     n : 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 [syn: {KR}, {Party of
         Democratic Kampuchea}, {Communist Party of Kampuchea}]