24 June 1975

As the evacuation march was reported almost completed and servere travel restriction between districts were put in place, which are tightly controlled by the Khmer Rouge military, US official believe it will take time till new information comes out of the Cambodian hinterlands.

At Prek Kdam every refugee was issued an identity card, with family origin being a key criterion. The refugees reported a series of problems ranging from cholera, lacking drinking water to a shortage of farm tools for the critical cultivation of rice.

Refugees from PhnomPenh managed to flee to Thailand by continuously telling all Khmer Rouge soldiers they were “heading north”. Now on the way to the US, they told US intelligence officers that the KR created a mammoth sorting center at Prek Kdam (bridge has been build later) https://t.co/qGPvforioT

Khmer Rouge patrol boats capture a Thai trawler and its 18 men crew off Koh Kut, Thailand in a stretch of water claimed by the Khmer Rouge. Six Thai marine policemen were wounded and several Cambodians were killed in a rescue attempt by a Thai naval boat. onthisday ©Sry85 https://t.co/0MIPnmVWPn