WHAT ARE THE KHMER ROUDE?

WHAT ARE THE KHMER ROUDE?

Speaking generally about the communist party or the Democratic Kampuchea was much less known. But if talk about the Khmer Rouge, who is also known Khmer abroad. The leaders of Democratic Kampuchea, not self-confess that the Khmer Rouge. So Rouge name come from?

Rouge is the name that is used generally refers to a group of Communist Khmer movement led by Pol Pot, is the Communist Party of Kampuchea. Rouge was first established by King Norodom Sihanouk.

During the late 50 Samdech Norodom Sihanouk, who is head of social movements lawmakers have separate Khmer three colors according to political affiliation, their Khmer enemy is referring on Khmer royalist Khmer blue, Khmer anak_satharonarodthaniyom and Rouge are Khmer kommouynist_niyom. But at first, the term was used by the Khmer Rouge refer to leftist social movement in his own wing lawmaker. Please recall that when the communist Khmer still an important political force. Communist Khmer like Khieu Samphan, Hu Nim and Hou yuan in social movements and popular lawmaker also be Samdech Norodom Sihanouk appointed to key positions in the government.

According to the French Foreign Ministry's documents between 1960 and 1962, the Khmer Rouge was occasionally used instead khmervietminh they were referring to the Communist Khmer separated from the Communist Party of Indochina.

According to Raoul JENNAR author of the book, entitled Les Clés du Cambodge, on 18 November 1966, just name the Khmer Rouge were Samdech Norodom Sihanouk used by referring clearly very movements communist Khmer generally, both within and outside the social lawmaker popular.

Samdech Norodom Sihanouk painted red Khmer Communist movement because red is the color representing the flags of the Communist revolution. Words for the Cambodian people, red is the color representing the bloodshed.

But the Khmer Rouge leaders never accept Rouge. Generally, the Khmer Rouge do not like using that Khmer. They are often used instead.

Leaders of Democratic Kampuchea Khmer Rouge do not recognize themselves as the Samdech Norodom Sihanouk launched, but they openly claimed that their revolution is a revolution scarlet.

Red is the color of the flag of the Democratic Kampuchea. And in the regime's national anthem also has raised many of the red color represents the revolution and represents the blood that flows in this revolution.

According to Ben Kiernan in the book titled Le Génocide au Cambodge Pol raised about creating a purely government red after Samdech Norodom Sihanouk resigned as head of state in April 1976.

And, according to the document's press BBC on 14 May 1978, radio's Democratic Kampuchea government has released about the commitment to continue its revolutionary and that will keep the revolutions in red always not let anyone come to change the color of that.

In short, leaders of the Democratic Kampuchea Khmer Rouge refused to name announced openly acknowledge that their revolutionary red and even intransigent commitment to maintain their revolutionary color red always sustained. Red is the color represents the ideology of the Democratic Kampuchea.