RAK

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RAK is the armed wing of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, formally known as the Kampuchean Revolutionary Army.

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RAK canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf armed wing
guerrilla army
military organization
activeDuring Cambodian Civil War
Khmer Rouge regime
linked to: Khmer Rouge
allegiance Khmer Rouge
alternativeName Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea
Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea (RAK)
associatedWith Democratic Kampuchea government
Pol Pot
country Cambodia
fullName Kampuchean Revolutionary Army
ideology Maoism
agrarian socialism
communism
languageOfName Khmer
notableEvent fall of Phnom Penh in 1975
opponent Khmer Republic armed forces
Lon Nol government
linked to: Khmer Republic

United States-backed forces in Cambodia
Vietnamese forces
partOf Democratic Kampuchea
region Indochina
role armed wing of the Khmer Rouge
status defunct
successor armed forces of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea
timePeriod 1970s
1975–1979
late 1960s

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