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I think my language could have been more precise: it's not merely genocidal, but humanicidal or omnicidal that we're talking about in the context of x-risks. Also, Khmer Rough wasn't suicidal to my knowledge. Am I less right?
Yes, they both wanted to vanquish their enemies, it's just that their definition of what constituted "their enemy" was general enough to encompass every human. Thus when they ran out of external enemies within easy reach they started purging their own ranks in order based on lack of loyalty to the cause.