Democratic Kampuchea was the official name of the Cambodian state from 1975 to 1979, under the general secretaryship of Pol Pot and the Communist Party of Kampuchea, commonly known as the Khmer Rouge.
Remains of victims of the Khmer Rouge in the Kampong Trach Cave, Kiry Seila Hills, Rung Tik (Water Cave) or Rung Khmao (Black Cave).
Skulls of Genocide victims
Kang Kek Iew (Kaing Guek Eav or Duch) before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
Pol Pot meeting with Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu during the latter's visit to Cambodia in 1978
The People's Republic of Kampuchea was a partially recognised state in Southeast Asia which existed from 1979 to 1992. It was a satellite state of Vietnam, founded in Cambodia by the Vietnamese-backed
Democratic Kampuchea
…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…
PRK students Meak Chanthan and Dima Yim (3rd from left and standing) in Bernau, East Germany in 1986.
Mountains along the Cambodian-Thai Border north of the road between Sisophon and Aranyaprathet. One of the areas where Khmer Rouge insurgents hid at the time of the K5 Plan.
Aid to Kampuchea in Zella-Mehlis, East Germany, during the 1979/1980 famine that ravaged Cambodia right after the birth of the PRK.