14 January 1976

5. In all, China’s aid to Cambodia during 1975 included 61,000 tons of rice, 30,000 tons of fuel, 3,000 tons of kerosene, 200 tons of machine oil, 250 tons of pesticides, 3,300 tons of cloth, 60 tons of medicines, 1.8 million hoes, 200,000 shovels, and 20,000 bicycles

4. Physicist Tri Meng Huot, who returned with 200 other Cambodians from Paris and Beijing to PhnomPenh:

“Most of us Khmers who wanted to go back had only one thought, wanting to go back to help the nation. So we went, whatever the system. We all knew it would be hard work.”

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

1.The new draft constitution was approved

2. Khieu Samphan receives Laotian, Yugoslav, S. Vietnamese & Albanian diplomats in PP

3. The Soviet Union’s request to set up a 100-person embassy is denied