14 August 1975

5. “It is one thing to suffer to live, another thing to suffer only to die. I decided to give it two years. If nothing had changed I would commit suicide. Mey Komphot, July 1975 in Cambodia (now a banker)

4. An article in the Khmer Rouge magazine “Revolutionary Youth” explains the evacuation of PhnomPenh as “necessary to prevent uncontrolable ideological contamination of the revolutionary ranks, because of their vulnerability to frivolity, showinees, filth, loss of mastery.”

3. Khieu Samphan sent greetings to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who resides in NorthKorea and invited him and his wife to return to Cambodia.

2. Pol Pot established the Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea (“RAK”), bringing a number of Zone military brigades under the control of the Party’s Central Committee -specifically, under the command of the General Staff, headed by SON Sen.

A recap on what happened in Cambodia in July 1975 under the Khmer Rouge:

1. The Khmer Rouge finished to moved its headquarters to PhnomPenh and Deputy Secretary Nuon Chea was put in charge of all its institutions including a new political training school and a youth league.