14 December 1978
2. Speculations about an impending Vietnamese dry-session offensive mount
3. Khmer Rouge FM Ieng Sary visits Indonesia, Singapore and Japan.
4. Along with the former chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party, Sei Ito, a journalist, visits Cambodia for two weeks. https://t.co/dNuYVH27AW
3. Khmer Rouge FM Ieng Sary visits Indonesia, Singapore and Japan.
4. Along with the former chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party, Sei Ito, a journalist, visits Cambodia for two weeks. https://t.co/dNuYVH27AW
A recap on what happened in Cambodia in October 1978 under the Khmer Rouge:
1. Ieng Sary invites @UN Secretary-General Waldheim to visit Camboda. In discussions with Japan’s FM Sonoda, Sary said he regards it as a sight-seeing venture, apparently not grasping its significance
@ThanYan64510 Yes https://t.co/1l2tzhMosS
SPK starts broadcasting from the liberated area in Cambodia. It reads the National Salvation Front’s 11-point plan to overthrow Pol Pot & its 14 member central committee, which includes Hun Sen (6). Analysts says the Front provides cover for🇻🇳’s military operation. https://t.co/YurM7u75h1
Khmer Rouge Head of State Khieu Samphan receives the credentials of Swiss ambassador Werner Sigg, who says he did not go to Cambodia “just to smile”.
“I intend to politely inform the Khmer Rouge of their poor image in the West & to assess present conditions in🇰ðŸ‡.”
5. A Vietnam government paper writes that “the counter-revolutionary Pol Pot-Ieng Sary clique pursues in Cambodia an extremely cruel policy against all strata of Kampuchean people, repressing & massacring in an extremely savage manner anyone they considered ‘disloyal’ to them.” https://t.co/YgdUQyYahj
