15 February 1976

7. According to refugee accounts collected by François PONCHAUD former government officers were brutally killed and disappeared, after being deceived into believing that they would be sent elsewhere to work

8. Sihanouk returns from a 3-day tour of the North Zone

5. The Communist Youth League of Kampuchea is founded: 17-30 year olds who have a “clear” biography and are “politically clean” can join and should work to propagandize the youth.

6. At the 4th Party Congress Khieu Samphan became a full rights member of the Central Committee

4. A Santebal report gives insight into the Khmer Rouge army which totals 72,748 troops. It also breaks down the weaponry of Division 170, which Pol Pot called in October “the strongest of all”
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A recap on what happened in Cambodia in January 1976 under the Khmer Rouge:

1. Cambodia is now called “Democratic Kampuchea”

2. S-21 security center was moved to Ta Khmau, on the southern outskirts of PhnomPenh

3. Air service between Peking and Phnom Penh is established