Photos of victims in Tuol Sleng prison . Kang Kek Iew (Kaing Guek Eav or Duch) giving evidence at a Cambodian court in 2009. Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims.The Khmer Rouge (Khmer : Kmae Krahaam ; French for "Red Khmer ") was a Marxist–Leninist militant group in Cambodia . They took over Cambodia in 1975 and lost power in 1979. Under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia became a totalitarian state. The Khmer Rouge committed the Cambodian genocide ,[ 1] killing as many as 3,000,000 (1 ⁄3 of the Cambodian population).[ 1]
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