22 January 1979

Lacking veto power in procedural matters, the Soviet Union fails to halt an emergency meeting of the @UN Security Council, so Prince Sihanouk was invited to speak – he called for a resolution demanding the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia https://t.co/9PCJvuptZK

A Thai military helicopter takes Khmer Rouge FM Ieng Sary (and Defence Minister Son Sen’s wife & a group of broadcasters, who will set up ‘Voice of Democratic Kampuchea’ radio in China) from Poipet to Bangkok,where they fly commercially to Beijing via Hong Kong.

Vietnamese MiG-21 planes bomb airfields in Cambodia’s Siem Reap & Battambang provinces, reportedly to prevent China from airlifting supplies to the Khmer Rouge forces. Pol Pot is believed to be in Siem Reap, trying to defend the area with three divisions.