During the American bombing campaign and Nol's attempts to help in Vietnam, this group began to develop a large following in the countryside.
During the American bombing campaign and Nol's attempts to help in Vietnam, this group began to develop a large following in the countryside.* Its leaders had been educated in France and developed an ideology combining an extreme form of Maoism with the anti-colonialism of the European Left, as well as resentment towards the Vietnamese. By 1975, they had captured Phnom Penh and renamed their country Kampuchea. FTP, what is this political organization, formerly led by Pol Pot, which ruled Cambodia until 1979 and fought a bloody guerilla war there until 1999?
During the American bombing campaign and Nol's attempts to help in Vietnam, this group began to develop a large following in the countryside.
Khmer Rouge or Communist Party of Cambodia or Party of Democratic Kampuchea