Kampuchea People’s Revolutionary Party

The Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) was a political party in Cambodia. It was founded in 1951 and was the predecessor to the Cambodian People's Party (CPP). The KPRP was a communist party that was pro-Vietnam.1

During the period of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979), the ruling party, the Communist Party of Kampuchea, led by Pol Pot, implemented radical social and economic transformations. This regime abolished money, markets, and private property, closed institutions, and enforced strict travel restrictions. The party's policies led to immense human suffering, with estimates suggesting that between April 1975 and early 1979, at least 1.5 million Cambodians died from overwork, starvation, disease, or execution. The KPRP, as the pro-Vietnam party, eventually overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979.2