22 February 1977

Visiting a pharmaceutical factory Que saw there was no machinery; mixing was done by hand. The workers were mostly illiterate, 12-to-14 years old. The factory director, a 17 year old woman needed no engineers or technicians: “the people can master the plant.”

At a PhnomPenh textile factory Que who headed the Vietnamese Woman Delegation was told how the former workers had all been sent for “reeducation.” The factory was now operated mostly by newly recruited peasants.

The 🇻🇳 Woman Delegation headed by Ha Thi Que (file) concludes a 6-day visit to Cambodia. Que says she had no contact with ordinary people. “In Phnom Penh we saw lots of coconuts on the ground, but there was no one to eat them. There were only birds & geckoes” https://t.co/RMpe8VhPhN