"Year Zero" Maybe a Reference to the Khmer Rouge?

There was something very familiar about the title of the poem "Year Zero" but I couldn't put my finger on it. Recently, I had learned that in the late 1970s in Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge took power with the intent of bringing the country back to "year zero." This meant wiping out all vestiges of French colonial rule, such as Western education, educated people, and anything else that seemed "non-Cambodian." This resulted in the deaths of over 1 fourth of the Cambodian population, mostly due to hard conditions in the labor camps that people were forced into and by mass executions of the educated or any middle class person. Even thought the Khmer Rouge claimed that it was erasing colonial blemishes and replacing them with traditional Cambodian ones, they actually preached egalitarianism and strict communism along with the destruction of the family, ending marriage and cutting all ties between parents and their children, so as to get complete loyalty. These developments, however, were very un-Cambodian, such as the concept of there being a "party" since Cambodia had always been ruled by a royal monarchy. In the poem "Year Zero" I saw some similarities, in that Joshua Clover mentions revolutionary people, and freedom but with flowers stuck in your ears and a corpse in your mouth. This is relevant to what happened in Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge, in that Khmer Rouge claimed they were creating a better life, free from colonial rule, but in the process, managed to create one of the most horrific instances of human suffering.