The Khmer Rouge from 1975 until 1979 when Camboia was ruled by the government of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge party the official name of the country was Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer: កម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ, French:Kampuchea démocratique, Vietnamese:Kampuchea Dân chủ). The period saw the death of approximately 1.7 million Cambodians through the combined result of political executions, starvation, and forced labor. Invasion by neighbor and former ally Vietnam led to the Khmer Rouge's downfall, left Cambodia under Vietnamese occupation for a decade and sparked the Third Indochina War in 1978.