21 May 1975

French journalist Patrick de Beer talks about the Fall of Phnom Penh. The 2nd convoy with foreigners from 🇫🇷 embassy in PhomPenh arrived at the Thai border. The Khmer Rouge checkpoint was so overwhelmed that most stowaways were able to slip through. https://t.co/1tpbSdReD2

The Khmer Rouge said in a radio broadcast today that the reconstruction at the port of Sihanoukville (photo from 1979) had begun and that intensive efforts were under way to rebuild factories which the KR said Lon Nol had destroyed because he knew he could not win the war. https://t.co/BJCd7Pm8Qa

The leader of a British medical team who just returned from Cambodia tells @AP on 8 May 1975 the conditions under which he worked during the last days before Fall of PhnomPenh.
https://t.co/CBaVxqizZj