khmer rouge

< /ˈkmɛər ˈruʒ, kəˈmɛər/ for 2.

1. a Cambodian guerrilla and rebel force and political opposition movement, originally Communist and Communist-backed.
2. a member or supporter of this force.

noun

1. the Kampuchean communist party, which seized power (1975) in a civil war: in exile since 1979, dispersed in 1999