NAME: Khmer Rouge/The Party of Democratic Kampuchea
DATE STARTED/FIRST ACTIVE: 1970s
GOALS: Overthrow the Cambodian government.
MAIN ANTI-U.S. ACTIVITIES TO DATE: None
STRENGTH: Fewer than 500, possibly no more than 100.
OPERATIONAL LOCATIONS: Outlying provinces in Cambodia, particularly in the northwest along the border with Thailand.
AFFILIATIONS: None.
COMMENTS: The group was a Communist insurgency that conducted a campaign of genocide, killing more than 1 million in the late 1970s. Disintegrated due to defections in the late 1990s.
DATE STARTED/FIRST ACTIVE: 1970s
GOALS: Overthrow the Cambodian government.
MAIN ANTI-U.S. ACTIVITIES TO DATE: None
STRENGTH: Fewer than 500, possibly no more than 100.
OPERATIONAL LOCATIONS: Outlying provinces in Cambodia, particularly in the northwest along the border with Thailand.
AFFILIATIONS: None.
COMMENTS: The group was a Communist insurgency that conducted a campaign of genocide, killing more than 1 million in the late 1970s. Disintegrated due to defections in the late 1990s.