15 June 1975

.@cambodiadaily has a good feature on what it was like to cover the Cambodian Civil war: https://t.co/L8D3cNuyuq

There were also Sven-Erik Sjöberg, Al Rockoff, @nytimes‘ Dith Pran and Sydney Schanberg, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Cambodia coverage. And there were many others whose reporting helped us to understand an important period in history.

For @AP: Jess Tan, Lay, Khuong, Veasna and Neal Ulevich as well as the Cambodian journalists Tea Kim Heang and Chor Yuthy who both were killed by the Khmer Rouge. For @AFP: Francoise Demulder, Claude Juvenal, Jean Jacques Cazaux, Marc Caruhel ©@RNbkk https://t.co/tl5IsFTzJY

Elisabeth Becker(@Elizbeckerwrite), who worked for @washingtonpost and published the excellent “WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution” & Jim Laurie (@JimLaurie_Asia) who worked for @NBCNews. Look out for his upcoming book “Indochina – War Love & Betrayal”

Roland Neveu (@RNbkk) published two excellent photo books: “Years of Turmoil” (a photographic account of Cambodia since the 1970s war) and “Fall of Phnom Penh”, with the best photos of the Cambodian capitals’ fall to the Khmer Rouge. Check them out here: https://t.co/Usq2sqveb7

Although there are some historic documents, establishing the precise dates of events is now at times impossible. I will still continue to tweet -though not daily- and post a monthly summary of important events. Now I want to thank the reporters whose stories and photos I used:

After the Khmer Rouge expelled all journalists, very little information came out of Cambodia. Reports were based on refugee accounts, Radio PhnomPenh broadcasts (run by the Khmer Rouge) and KR leaders’ interactions with foreign officials.