Editing Khmer Rouge (section)

== Etymology ==
The term ''Khmers rouges'', [[French language|French]] for [[Political colour#Red|red]] [[Khmer people|Khmers]], was coined by King [[Norodom Sihanouk]] and it was later adopted by English speakers (in the form of the corrupted version Khmer Rouge).<ref name="Becker 1998">{{cite book|last=Becker|first=Elizabeth|title=When the War was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution|publisher=PublicAffairs|year=1998|isbn=978-1891620003}}</ref>{{rp|100}} It was used to refer to a succession of communist parties in Cambodia which evolved into the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]] and later the [[Party of Democratic Kampuchea]]. Its military was known successively as the [[Kampuchean Revolutionary Army]] and the [[National Army of Democratic Kampuchea]].<ref name="DeRouen 2007 p231">{{cite book|title=Civil Wars of the World: Major Conflicts Since World War II, Volume 1|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nrN077AEgzMC&q=khmer+rouge+also+known+as+the+Khmer+Communist+Party+and+the+National+Army+of+Democratic+Kampuchea&pg=PA231|first=Karl R.|last=DeRouen|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2007|chapter=Cambodia (1970–1975 and 1979–1991)|page=231|isbn = 9781851099191}}</ref>

Since the deterioration in relations between the [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam]] and [[Democratic Kampuchea]], the Vietnamese government no longer recognize the legitimacy of the Khmer Rouge, and as a result, they call the Khmer Rouge the '''Pol Pot-Ieng Sary clique''' ({{langx|vi|Tập đoàn Pol Pot-Ieng Sary}}<ref>{{cite news |title="Pol Pot không chỉ là kẻ thù của Campuchia mà của cả Việt Nam" |url=https://vov.vn/chinh-tri/pol-pot-khong-chi-la-ke-thu-cua-campuchia-ma-cua-ca-viet-nam-861012.vov |accessdate=2023-05-21 |agency=BÁO ĐIỆN TỬ VOV |date=2019-01-07 |archive-date=21 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521054535/https://vov.vn/chinh-tri/pol-pot-khong-chi-la-ke-thu-cua-campuchia-ma-cua-ca-viet-nam-861012.vov |url-status=live }}</ref>) or the '''Pol Pot-Ieng Sary reactionary clique''' ({{langx|vi|Tập đoàn phản động Pol Pot-Ieng Sary}}<ref>{{cite news |title="Thế giới nợ Việt Nam lời xin lỗi" |url=https://special.vietnamplus.vn/2018/12/27/polpot/ |accessdate=2023-05-21 |agency=VietnamPlus |date=2019-01-07 |archive-date=23 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523050720/https://special.vietnamplus.vn/2018/12/27/polpot/ |url-status=live }}</ref>).