24 February 1976

Dan Southerland writes in @csmonitor that the Khmer Rouge transformed Cambodia into a giant work camp. He interviewed 20 refugees, many of whom reported executions and quoted a western diplomat, who warned that refugees are likely to exaggerate the repressiveness of the KR: https://t.co/dEyVeh4glj

.@NRO tells the story of former student Ang Sokthan. She escaped from the Khmer Rouge to Thailand:

“We were forbidden to pick fruits from the trees to supplement our diet because they belonged to ‘the people’. Those who transgressed 4 times were taken away and did not return”