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Unitary one-party socialist republic under a totalitarian dictatorship[2][3][4]
General Secretary
• 1975–1979
Pol Pot
Head of state
• 1975–1976
Norodom Sihanouk
• 1976–1979
Khieu Samphan
Prime Minister
• 1975–1976
Penn Nouth
• 1976
Khieu Samphan
• 1976–1979
Pol Pot
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People's Representative Assembly
Historical era
Cold War
• Khmer Rouge capture of Phnom Penh
17 April 1975
• Constitution established
5 January 1976
• Start of Vietnamese invasion
21 December 1978
• Vietnamese capture of Phnom Penh
7 January 1979
• CGDK established
22 June 1982
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Succeeded by
1975: Khmer Republic
1976: GRUNK
1979: People's Republic of Kampuchea
1982: Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea
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Kampuchea,[a] officially Democratic Kampuchea (DK)[b] from 1976 onward, was the Cambodian state from 1975 to 1979, under the totalitarian dictatorship of Pol Pot and the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), commonly known as the Khmer Rouge (KR). It was established following the Khmer Rouge's capture of the capital Phnom Penh, effectively ending the United States-backed Khmer Republic of Lon Nol. After Vietnam took Phnom Penh in 1979, it was disestablished in 1982 with the creation of the CGDK in its place.
From 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge's one-party regime killed millions of its own people through mass executions, forced labour, and starvation, in an event which has come to be known as the Cambodian genocide. The killings ended when the Khmer Rouge were ousted from Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese army.
The Khmer Rouge subsequently established a government-in-exile in neighbouring Thailand and retained Kampuchea's seat at the United Nations (UN). In response, Vietnamese-backed communists created a rival government, the People's Republic of Kampuchea, but failed to gain international recognition. In 1982, the Khmer Rouge established the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK) with two non-communist guerrilla factions, broadening the exiled government of Democratic Kampuchea.[5] The exiled government renamed itself the National Government of Cambodia in 1990, in the run-up to the UN-sponsored 1991 Paris Peace Agreements.
^"Cambodia – Religion". Britannica. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
^Jackson, Karl D. (1989). Cambodia, 1975–1978: Rendezvous with Death. Princeton University Press. p. 219. ISBN 0-691-02541-X.
^"Khmer Rouge's Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide". The New York Times. 15 November 2018. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
^Kiernan, B. (2004) How Pol Pot came to Power. New Haven: Yale University Press, p. xix
^"Cambodia – COALITION GOVERNMENT OF DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA". countrystudies.us. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
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