lucadiliello/trecqa · Datasets at Hugging Face

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1	The doctoral thesis he submitted at the University of Paris in <num> is seen as a blueprint of Khmer Rouge economic policy once it seized power in <num> _ economic self-reliance and the collectivization of agriculture .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
1	The Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh on April <num> , <num> , and cut Cambodia off from the world .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
1	Sihanouk was named head of state after the Khmer Rouge seized power in <num> , but was locked in his palace by the communists as they embarked on their brutal attempt to create an agrarian utopia .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
1	He then allowed himself to be named head of state when the Khmer Rouge seized power in <num> under the leadership of Pol Pot , who died last year .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
1	<num> : Khmer Rouge seizes power .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Cambodian leader Hun Sen says that upcoming elections will be more peaceful than polls in <num> monitored by the United Nations , thanks largely to the collapse of the Khmer Rouge .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	`` In <num> , Khmer Rouge occupied many places ... , ''	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Cambodia 's King Norodom Sihanouk granted an audience Wednesday to Ieng Sary , a former high-ranking Khmer Rouge leader who was his jailer in the late 1970s .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Ieng Sary oversaw the house arrest of the king during the Khmer Rouge 's genocidal rule .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Ieng Sary , for his part , has described how the guerrillas used an alliance with Sihanouk to help win power , once likening him to a `` water buffalo who will help us cross the river. ''	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	At least <num> of the king 's relatives and children died under Khmer Rouge rule .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	It was a political deal undertaken to ensure the eventual defection of some <num> war-weary Khmer Rouge guerrillas to the government .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The defections marked the beginning of the end for the Khmer Rouge , which is now down to a few hundred guerrillas along the Thai border .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	His death has spurred new calls by human-rights groups and some Western governments , led by the United States , for the trial of remaining Khmer Rouge leaders .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Sihanouk was toppled by a U.S . -backed coup in <num> and lent his support to the Khmer Rouge , then a small band of jungle guerrillas , against the new government .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The Khmer Rouge regime , however , proved every bit as rabidly anti-Vietnamese as Lon Nol , and their old allies responded to repeated border attacks by toppling the Khmer Rouge in <num> .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Hun Sen , a mid-ranking Khmer Rouge commander who defected to escape purges , rose to the top of the Hanoi -installed government in <num> and has been Cambodia 's most powerful figure ever since .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The irony is that he was a leading member of the ousted Khmer Rouge , which did n't permit free elections during its five-year reign of terror .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Chan Youran served as the Khmer Rouge ambassador to many countries , including China , where the creed of cultural revolution originated .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	As many as <num> million Cambodians were executed or died from starvation , forced labor and illness before a Vietnamese invasion toppled the Khmer Rouge in <num> .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Their defections came after the Khmer Rouge stronghold in Anlong Veng was overrun by government troops in April and they advocated ending the war .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The defectors were greeted with open arms by the government of strongman Hun Sen , who has spent years denouncing the Khmer Rouge but found that the best way of beating them was to let them join .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	`` We are happy to take part in the elections , '' said Kor Bun Heng , the former senior spokesman for the Khmer Rouge .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The Khmer Rouge agreed to , then boycotted , U.N.-sponsored elections five years ago .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	When asked why it took so long to come around , Chan Youran asked the age of his Cambodian interviewer .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Cambodian leader Hun Sen said Saturday that a former Khmer Rouge general wanted for the abduction and murder of three Western tourists in <num> has been arrested and will stand trial in Phnom Penh .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Nuon Paet led a band of Khmer Rouge guerrillas who halted a train in <num> and abducted three young Western tourists : David Wilson of Australia , Mark Slater of Britain and Jean-Michel Braquet of France .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Pailin is a former Khmer Rouge stronghold on Cambodia 's western border .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The defections , initiated by high-ranking Khmer Rouge figure Ieng Sary , crippled the revolutionary movement and have given the country its best chance for peace in decades .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	At least <num> foreigners have been taken hostage and subsequently killed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas since <num> .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	While it is possible there are some tiny bands of guerrillas still wandering the jungles , Thayer said he knew of no sizeable Khmer Rouge fighting force that could pose a viable threat to the government .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	With the Khmer Rouge laying down their arms and Hun Sen and Ranariddh working together , the country is poised to begin perhaps its most stable period in decades .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Nearly two million people died of execution , overwork , starvation or disease under the Khmer Rouge until they were ousted from power by a Vietnamese invasion in <num> .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The last main fighting force of the Khmer Rouge , the radical Marxist guerrillas who killed nearly two million Cambodians , have surrendered to the government , a journalist close to the rebels said on Saturday .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	In <num> , Thayer became the first journalist allowed to interview the Khmer Rouge 's late leader Pol Pot , who had not been seen in public in nearly two decades , and who died in April this year .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The surrender of the Khmer Rouge would bring to an end more than <num> years of civil war in Cambodia that began with the Marxist guerrilla 's insurgency against the government in Phnom Penh in the late 1960s .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	They apparently no longer command any troops , but their former followers did not want to give them up .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Khem Nuon claimed he was negotiating on behalf of <num> remaining ragtag troops and <num> civilians living under Khmer Rouge control .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	While it is possible there are some tiny bands of guerrillas still wandering the jungles , Thayer said he knew of no sizable Khmer Rouge fighting force that could pose a viable threat to the government .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The last main fighting force of the Khmer Rouge , the radical Marxist guerrillas who killed nearly two million Cambodians , surrendered to the government in a ceremony broadcast on national television Saturday .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The Khmer Rouge laying down their arms brings to an end more than <num> years of civil war in Cambodia that began with the Marxist guerrillas ' insurgency against the government in Phnom Penh in the late 1960s .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Although the three no longer command any troops , their former followers apparently did not want to give them up .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Thayer , who in <num> became the first journalist to interview the late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot , is one of few outsiders trusted by the guerrillas .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Although Cambodia still faces many problems , with the Khmer Rouge laying down their arms and Hun Sen and Ranariddh working together , the country is poised to begin perhaps its most potentially stable period in decades .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Key events in the history of Cambodia 's Khmer Rouge movement : ___ _ 1949-52 : Saloth Sar , later known as Pol Pot , goes to Paris on government scholarship and becomes absorbed with communist ideology .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	1960-68 : Khmer Rouge leaders flee to jungle to escape repression .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Khmer Rouge takes up arms in support of peasants against a government rice tax .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	<num> : U.S . -backed right-wing coup topples Sihanouk ; civil war begins between Khmer Rouge and new military government .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	<num> : Vietnam invades Cambodia to stop Khmer Rouge border attacks .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	<num> : Khmer Rouge forms alliance with royalist , republican forces to expel Vietnamese occupation forces .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	<num> : Khmer Rouge boycotts United Nations -supervised general election .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	<num> : Government announces Khmer Rouge breakup .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	<num> , <num> : Last main Khmer Rouge fighting force surrenders to government .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	<num> , <num> : Two of last three historic Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea , defect to government .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Two leaders of the Khmer Rouge reign of terror in the 1970s defected to the government Saturday in a deal marking the death rattle of the bloodstained revolutionary group but unlikely to bring them to justice .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Khieu Samphan , long the nominal Khmer Rouge leader while others held real power , and political chief Nuon Chea said in letters read by Hun Sen on national radio that they wished to become `` ordinary citizens . ''	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The defections leave at large only one major Khmer Rouge figure , the one - legged general Ta Mok , known as `` The Butcher , '' and fewer than <num> die-hard loyalists .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The Khmer Rouge emptied the cities and sent the populations to agricultural labor camps in the countryside .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Longtime Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot _ purged in a bloody power struggle last year _ died of a purported heart attack in April under house arrest by his ex- comrades .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Over the past two years , the government has adopted a policy of negotiating de facto amnesty with Khmer Rouge leaders to persuade them to end nearly two decades of stalemated civil war .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The area is controlled by one of their old comrades , Pol Pot 's brother-in-law Ieng Sary , the first Khmer Rouge leader to make peace with the government .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Their letters said they had sealed their defection by telephone Friday with Hun Sen , who formed a new government last month expected to curb the political instability long exploited by the Khmer Rouge .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The defections come weeks after Khmer Rouge chief of staff Khem Ngun and seven other generals surrendered .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	In Thailand , which closely monitors Khmer Rouge activities , Maj . Gen . Wiwat Sattarak , chief of the border task force , said that Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea moved to defect a month ago .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Youk Chhang , director of a Cambodian research center devoted to gathering evidence against the Khmer Rouge , said Hun Sen risks losing support from Cambodians if he prevents a trial .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The defection of Khmer Rouge intellectual Khieu Samphan to the Cambodian government brings an end to decades of posturing in which he played the moderate , public front -man for a gang of history 's worst killers .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The death knell comes eight months after Pol Pot , the supreme Khmer Rouge leader until he was purged in a power struggle in <num> , succumbed to a purported heart attack .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	But researchers who have studied Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge say that Khieu Samphan bore much more responsibility for the deaths of his countrymen than is often attributed to him .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	`` Khieu Samphan 's political star rose literally on heaps of corpses , '' said Steven Heder , an expert on the Khmer Rouge who lectures at London 's School of Oriental and African Studies .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	So did Pol Pot and other top leaders of what became the Khmer Rouge .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	After Sihanouk was overthrown by a U.S . -backed coup in <num> , the prince formed an alliance with the Khmer Rouge .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Vietnam invaded Cambodia on Christmas Day , <num> , and toppled the Khmer Rouge two weeks later .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The Khmer Rouge joined royalist and republican factions in an alliance to drive out the Vietnamese , Cambodia 's traditional enemy .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The Khmer Rouge boycotted U.N . -organized elections in <num> .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Sihanouk , Prime Minister Hun Sen and other leaders often drew a distinction between Khieu Samphan and other Khmer Rouge chieftains .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Stung by reminders in the press of his past support for the notorious Khmer Rouge , King Norodom Sihanouk reiterated today that he is willing to stand trial alongside the architects of Cambodia 's genocide .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	`` As I 've said and written several times , I am ready to appear in front of a tribunal in charge of judging the Khmer Rouge and their real or supposed accomplices , '' the king said .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	He was responding to a local news report recalling that he was briefly head of state during the Khmer Rouge regime .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	After Sihanouk was deposed from power by his army chief Lon Nol in a <num> U.S . -backed coup , he lent his name and popularity to the Khmer Rouge forces that were battling Lon Nol 's troops .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The Khmer Rouge forced a war-weakened population into agricultural collectives that were run like slave labor camps .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Sihanouk resigned in <num> , but the Khmer Rouge kept him under house arrest until they were driven from power by an invading Vietnamese army in <num> .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Hun Sen , a low-level Khmer Rouge commander until <num> , has refused to arrest the pair until a warrant is issued by a court .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The Cambodian government and a visiting U.N . legal team began tough negotiations Thursday over a proposed genocide trial for former Khmer Rouge leaders .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The extremist policies of the Khmer Rouge are held responsible for the death of an estimated <num> million people when the communist group held power from 1975-79 .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	In the past year , after two decades in the jungle waging civil war , several top Khmer Rouge leaders have surrendered or been arrested , making them vulnerable to prosecution .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Sam Rainsy said Cambodia needed an international tribunal to prosecute Khmer Rouge leaders `` and put an end to impunity in this country , '' a reference to the ability of officials and influential people to escape justice .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Prime Minister Hun Sen favors bringing the Khmer Rouge leaders to trial but says pushing too hard could renew the civil war .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Critics say neither Hun Sen nor his junior partner in the coalition government , Prince Norodom Ranariddh , want a trial that would highlight their past links to the Khmer Rouge .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The preparations appear to be focusing on a dozen top figures from the Khmer Rouge Central Committee and the torture house at Tuol Sleng prison , where at least <num> people were killed .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The king , who is <num> , lent his name to the Khmer Rouge guerrillas after he was ousted in a U.S . -backed coup led by his army chief , Lon Nol , in <num> .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	But Sihanouk was placed under house arrest for the final three years of Khmer Rouge rule .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	He was one of the millions of people who suffered severely at the hands of the Khmer Rouge , losing <num> family members .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The head of his political party , Chea Sim , as well as his co-defense minister , Tea Banh , were members of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	The following is a chronology of key events concerning Khmer Rouge :	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	January <num> : Khmer Rouge takes up arms insurrection and starts a guerrilla war .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	<num> : Prince Norodom Sihanouk is toppled ; a civil war begins between Khmer Rouge and the new military government .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	Khmer Rouge leaders retreat to the Thai border and spend the next decade fighting against the Hanoi-backed government .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	<num> : Khmer Rouge boycotts U.N.-supervised general election .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	July <num> : The government ends negotiations and formally outlaws Khmer Rouge .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?
0	August <num> : Phnom Penh announces a major Khmer Rouge split .	9	When did the Khmer Rouge come into power ?

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The doctoral thesis he submitted at the University of Paris in <num> is seen as a blueprint of Khmer Rouge economic policy once it seized power in <num> _ economic self-reliance and the collectivization of agriculture .

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