kr

Noun

• a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999

• a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Khmer Rouge , KR , Party of Democratic Kampuchea , Communist Party of Kampuchea , krypton , Kr , atomic number 36