Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Khieu Samphan
Ta Mok
Ke Pauk
Son Sen
Yun Yat
Goals:
Abolish currency (success)
Outlaw religion (success)
Stop the Vietnamese Army (failed)
Turning Cambodia into Socialist (failed)
Crimes:
Mass murder
Establishment of Labor Camps
Starvation of the Cambodian Population
The Communist Party of Kampuchea (1951-1981) was a far-left Communist party led by Pol Pot during his reign in Kampuchea. The Communist Party was also a Khmer nationalist Party, as well as agrarianist and Marxist-Leninist.
History of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
The Communist Party of Kampuchea was founded in 1951 by Son Ngoc Minh and Tou Samouth after splitting from the Indochinese Communist Party when it branched off into the Lao, Cambodian, and Vietnamese Communist Parties.
