** Khmer New Year, or Chol Chnam Thmey, most commonly celebrated on April 13 ( Cambodia )

On New Year's Day 1975, Communist troops launched an offensive which, in 117 days of the hardest fighting of the war, collapsed the Khmer Republic.

For instance, in 1976, the New York Times published 66 articles on alleged human rights abuses in Chile and only 4 on Cambodia, where the communist Khmer Rouge killed some 1. 5 million people of 7. 5 million people in the country.

The Khmer Rouge attempted to turn Cambodia into a classless society by depopulating cities and forcing the urban population (" New People ") into agricultural communes.

The Songkran festival (, Khmer: សង ្ រ ្ ក ា ន ្ ត ; from the Sanskrit word, or literally " astrological passage ") is celebrated in Thailand as the traditional New Year's Day from 13 to 15 April.

He was sailing with his New Zealand companion, Kerry Hamill and their Canadian friend Stuart Glass when their boat drifted into Cambodian territory and was intercepted by Khmer patrol boats on August 13, 1978.

The Khmer Rouge attempted to turn Cambodia into a classless society by depopulating cities and forcing the urban population (" New People ") into agricultural communes.

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His political enemies have referred to him during question period as " Pol Pot " or " the Honourable Member for Cambodia " due to supportive articles he wrote while editor of the New Zealand Socialist Action newspaper about the Khmer Rouge regime under the headline ; Cambodia liberated: victory for humanity.

When the rainy season begins at the start of the Khmer New Year in April, the region becomes inundated with monsoonal rain and Cambodia turns into a vast ocean of emerald rice paddies.

Cambodian New Year () or Chaul Chnam Thmey in the Khmer language, literally " Enter Year New ", is the name of the Cambodian holiday that celebrates the New Year.

The Khmer New Year coincides with the traditional solar new year in several parts of India, Myanmar and Thailand.

The Khmer New Year is also a time to prepare special dishes.

Throughout the Khmer New Year, street corners often are crowded with friends and families enjoying a break from routine, filling their free time with dancing and games.

A game played especially on the first nightfall of the Khmer New Year by two groups of boys and girls.

Khmer women dressed up during Cambodian New Year.

It broadcasts in multiple languages, namely English, Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Khmer, French, Burmese, and Tok Pisin ( a creole language commonly spoken in Papua New Guinea ).

New People were civilian Cambodians who were controlled and exploited by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia from 1975-1979.

One of the Khmer Rouge mottos, in reference to the New People, was " To keep you is no benefit.

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This was followed by an ITV documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia, which brought to people's living rooms the suffering of the Khmer people.

During the filming of Cambodia Year One, they were warned that Pilger was on a Khmer Rouge ' death list ' and, in one incident, they narrowly escaped an ambush.

The documentary as a television " event " can send ripples far and wide ... Year Zero not only revealed the horror of the Pol Pot years, it showed how Richard Nixon's and Henry Kissinger's ' secret ' bombing of that country had provided a critical catalyst for the rise of the Khmer Rouge.

* John Pilger, an Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker, collaborated with filmmaker David Munro and photographer Eric Piper on the impact of the Khmer Rouge on the Cambodian people in a report for the British tabloid Daily Mirror and the documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia ( 1979 ) for Associated Television.

One Year in the Khmer Rouge's S-21.

He was expelled from Phnom Penh along with the bulk of its two million inhabitants as part of the Khmer Rouge's " Year Zero " social experiment and imprisoned in a concentration camp along with his wife, My-Huoy, who subsequently died giving birth.

In Cambodia, Pran has become a forced labourer under the Khmer Rouge's " Year Zero " policy, a return to the agrarian ways of the past.

Prior to the Khmer Rouge's ' Year Zero ' he was a doctor based in Phnom Penh.

As part of the Khmer Rouge's horrific Year Zero campaign, monks were systematically turned out of monasteries and forced to disrobe and become farming peasants, or were tortured and murdered outright.

Among these languages, only Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon have a long-established recorded history, and only Vietnamese and Khmer have official status ( in Vietnam and Cambodia, respectively ).

Khmer (, ; or more formally,, ), or Cambodian, is the language of the Khmer people and the official language of Cambodia.

Khmer is spoken by approximately 12. 6 million people in Cambodia where it is the official language.

The conquests of Cambodia by Naresuan the Great for Ayutthaya furthered the political and economic isolation from Cambodia proper leading to a dialect that developed relatively independently from the midpoint of the Middle Khmer period.

Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.

In the first millennium AD, an urban tradition developed in the Khmer region of Cambodia, where Angkor grew into one of the largest cities ( in area ) of the world.

The immense influence on the identity of Cambodia to come was wrought by the Khmer Kingdom of Bhavapura, in the modern day Cambodian city of Kompong Thom.

The golden age of Khmer civilization, however, was the period from the 9th to the 13th centuries, when Khmer Empire, which gave Kampuchea, or Cambodia, its name, ruled large territories from its capital in the region of Angkor in western Cambodia.

This measure taken by the short-lived governmental authority would be popular and long-lasting, for since then no government in Cambodia has tried to romanize the Khmer language again.

Prince Sihanouk, facing internal struggles of his own, due to the rise of the Khmer Rouge, did not want Cambodia to be involved in the conflict.

The relationship between the massive carpet bombing of Cambodia by the United States and the growth of the Khmer Rouge, in terms of recruitment and popular support, has been a matter of interest to historians.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

The Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia, launched at the request of the Khmer Rouge, has also been cited as a major factor in their eventual victory, including by Shawcross.

It was composed of Khmer Communists who had remained in Vietnam after 1975 and officials from the eastern sector — like Heng Samrin and Hun Sen — who had fled to Vietnam from Cambodia in 1978.