16 August 1978

The Canadian embassy in Bangkok says it will interview Cambodian refugees to gather material for use at the @UN Human Rights Commission which starts in Geneva on Aug. 28th. Earlier this year🇨🇦’s House of Commons condemned Khmer Rouge human right violations in🇰🇭.

Salai Montri, daughter of a high ranking Lon Nol official flees to Thailand. She says Cambodians now have sufficient food but the fare is spartan, there is little clothing available and no medicine. “High-ranking Khmer Rouge enjoy a much better standard of life”.

A Khmer Rouge cadre reports on two women who refused to work and to refashion. They disappeared for 2 days & complained saying that “dying is better than living”. The cadre concludes that the two women can’t be kept because “they have so many contradictions”

Pol Pot talks to a visiting delegation from the Belgium-Kampuchea Friendship Association on a wide range of subjects from living conditions in Cambodia to Art, Leisure, Justice, Religion, the @UN, the repopulation of cities & more

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China is regarded as having had no choice but to side with its client in Phnom Penh, but it has thrown its support more behind Cambodia as a state than behind the regime of Prime Minister Pol Pot, writes @nytimes on the🇰🇭-🇻🇳conflict.