1 March 1979

Seven Thai reporters venture into Cambodia to secure an interview with a high-ranking Khmer Rouge commander about the war. Waving a white flag, the reporters called out to a group of 10 Pol Pot soldiers a good distance away but the soldiers open fire: https://t.co/fDLiiFbQW5

Vietnam and Cambodia sign a 25-year “Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation”, similar to the one Vietnam signed with Laos in 1976 and which legalizes the presence of Vietnamese troops (currently 16 divisions) in Cambodia. https://t.co/utvLlw0Hwb

Vietnam urges China to stop its “war of aggression”, the Khmer Rouge’s @UN ambassador demands a discussion of Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia at the SC; the Soviet Union says China can’t accept that Cambodians “have thrown off Pol Pot’s bloody butcher regime” https://t.co/bw6zVsksqk

The Indian Workers Association (Great Britain) takes to the streets to demand that all the Vietnamese forces be immediately withdrawn from Cambodia: “At the same time we extend our whole-hearted support to the only legal government, namely, the Pol Pot Government” https://t.co/SJp0BRcpDl