Democratic Kampuchea was the official name of the Cambodian state from 1975 to 1979, when the Communist Party of Kampuchea, known as the Khmer Rouge, held power under general secretary Pol Pot. The Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh in 1975, ended the United States-backed Khmer Republic and emptied the cities, abolished money, markets and organised religion and imposed forced labour in the countryside. Its one-party regime caused the Cambodian genocide, in which millions died from executions, forced labour and starvation. Vietnamese forces ousted it from Phnom Penh in 1979, after which the Khmer Rouge kept a government in exile and the country's United Nations seat.
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deposing an unlamented and particularly violent dictatorship
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the official name of the Cambodian state from 1975 to 1979
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capital Phnom Penh
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deposing an unlamented and particularly violent dictatorship
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