Noun1.Khmer Rouge- a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999 ...
The Khmer Lands of Vietnam, by Philip Taylor, is a beautifully written and meticulously researched ethnography of the Khmer population that lives in the Kampuchea Krom (lower Cambodia) in the Mekong Delta of modern-day Vietnam. Philip Taylor: The Khmer Lands of Vietnam. Environment, Cosmology ...
(Cambodians), a nation, the main population of Cambodia. Population, more than 6 million in Cambodia (1970, estimate); in addition, there are more than 600,000 Khmers living in South Vietnam and more than 350,000 in Thailand. They speak Khmer (Cambodian). Their religion is Hinayana Buddh...
Presently, the Khmer Krom's population is between eight to ten million people. These people have been living under an oppressive society, which has been controlled by the Vietnamese people for hundreds of years. They are politically, economically, educationally, physically and psychologically ...
The strong influence of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's Thoughts in the Vietnamese ethnic policy is also discussed in this part. Since the Khmer Krom's major claim to political autonomy remains unsettled, the chapter concludes that even though the Mekong Delta has witnessed some relative ...
By comparison, the ethnic Khmer of southern Vietnam, or Khmer Krom, have received relatively little scholarly attention, despite numbering over a million and inhabiting some of the most ecologically and politically sensitive areas of the country. The Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology an...