23 June 1977

June 12, 1977: Thai border police finds the bodies of more than 50 Cambodians and skulls, mounted on sticks on the Thai-Cambodian border. A refugee said the victims where slain by the Khmer Rouge as a warning to others to not flee Cambodia.

June 12,1977: The “Leap Dal” oil tanker carrying 249 refugees from Cambodia,🇰🇭&🇻🇳still lies looking for a port in Malaysian waters. Thich Nhat Hanh, a well‐known leader of the antiwar forces in Vietnamese Buddhism, chartered it to dramatise the plight of Indochinese refugees: https://t.co/lxIhS9FTgA

June 12, 1977: In his “self-criticism”, NHEP Yan describes a plot of his bosses in Hospital 22 “to produce insufficient medicine & oppose Khmer Rouge guidelines”.

His bosses also complained: “There is no other country, where they assign ministry of health staff to farm rice”. https://t.co/fFKUGoCXLM