24 September 1977

5. Thailand is said to host 14,000 Cambodians refugee camps

6. Following Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary’s official visit to Burma in March, a Burmese delegation led by Foreign Minister visits PhnomPenh.

4.”Revolutionary Flag” admits difficulties in expanding party membership as cadres “fell away from the movement”. Recruitment should come from locations where no traitors were found and control should shift to poor peasants, “as in general they are still politically clean”.

3. While the Vietnamese Defence Minister for the first time admits to the border conflict with Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge magazine “Revolutionary Flag” calls on the protelatariat class to “attack and smash the territory-swallowing expansionist genocidal Yuon [🇻🇳] aggressor”

2.Khmer Rouge Defence Minister Son Sen is reassigned to administer the growing conflict with Vietnam. Duch, head of S-21, now reports directly to Acting Prime Minister Nuon Chea.
There was a large spike in arrests of S-21 cadres as more than 72 were detained.

A recap on what happened in Cambodia in August 1977 under the Khmer Rouge:

1. The magazine “Democratic Kampuchea Is Moving Forward” is published, which claims Cambodia has 8 million inhabitants: 99% are Khmer, who live with numerous minorities “in the same great family”. https://t.co/Ye9iIo3srD