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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Kampuchea (Cambodia ). - noun A person of Kampuchean (Cambodian) descent.
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Estimates for this period were driven largely by two events: (1) the people of Vietnamese origin and Kampucheans with ties to them were repatriated to Vietnam immediately after the Khmer Rouge takeover; and (2) the remaining Kampuchean population was divided into two distinct groups and each group treated differently, resulting in a unique demographic impact on each.
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(Footnote 2) Therefore, since 1970, the Kampuchean population has declined by 1.5 million to 2.4 million people, or by 22-34 percent; the drop has been even more pronounced since the Communist takeover in April 1975.
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Estimated Demographic Impact: Destruction of leadership element of Kampuchean society and urban-based medical system.
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In an attempt to measure the impact of events during the 1970s on the Kampuchean population, we prepared population estimates for the period 1970 to 1979 (table I-1).
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Estimated Demographic Impact: Kampuchean refugees begin to flee to Vietnam.
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The war between the Lon Nol regime and the Communist Khmer Rouge set the stage for the cataclysmic decline of the Kampuchean population that was to follow.
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Decimated by disease, famine, and war, and bereft of its leaders and its labor force, the Kampuchean society will need decades to come back, if it survives at all.
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The almost four years of brutal rule by the Pol Pot regime drastically accelerated the disintegration of Kampuchean society.
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Ten years of war, social revolution, and invasion have played havoc with the Kampuchean population.
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A conservative estimate is that for every Kampuchean born during July-December 1979, 10 died.
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