In @latimes, Mike Snitowsky sees in Deputy Prime Minister Khieu Samphan a “monk like figure”, who is the “theoretician of the Khmer Rouge”.
Snitowsky also tries to explain the Khmer Rouge’s “heavy-handed tactics”: https://t.co/tRbxEaHBU4
7. In the February issue of the Khmer Rouge propaganda magazine Revolutionary Flag, the repeated rhetoric of “great leaps” stands out: https://t.co/ANCJ2AFmnu
6. The KR Standing Committee decides important infrastructure should be deep inside Cambodia and proposes Kampong Chhnang to China as site for a military airport
Regarding Vietnamese soldiers in the border area it states: “their general goal is to pick away at our territory”
5. The Khmer Rouge Standing Committee decides
– to use 1/3 of the $3 million in Yugoslavian aid to buy antibiotics.
– to accept $5 million of Swedish aid to buy machines, farm tools and medicines.
– to draft adolescent children from the base areas into the army
4. Thai and Cambodian fishing boats clashed several times. The incidents were downplayed by Thai Deputy FM Pratuang. Ieng Sary canceled a meeting to discuss them, because the Thais claimed Cambodia demanded the meeting. Sary considered this an insult.
3. The US allegedly bombed Siem Reap. The Khmer Rouge take the visiting foreign diplomats to inspect the damage site (29.2.1976)
A Tunisian diplomat described Khieu Samphan as “the silent power behind the scenes” and Ieng Sary as the “epitome of an Ultra-nationalistic Cambodian”
A recap on what happened in Cambodia in February 1976 under the Khmer Rouge:
1. Prince Sihanouk (photo 3rd from right), visits AngkorWat.
2. Information Minister Hu Nim announced the election of the People’s Representative Assembly (“PRA”) to be held on 20 March 1976 https://t.co/azoLdo7nVp
Denis Warner writes in @kilgorenews that no one seems to care that nearly a million people lost their lives in Cambodia because of the barbarous behaviour of the Khmer Rouge, who came to power April last year.
