27 April 1975

A government soldier comforts a family whose relatives were found murdered in a rice field near PhnomPenh, Cambodia. Refugees continue to poor into the city, and are used as a human shield by the advancing Khmer Rouge. OnThisDay ©Jean Jacques Cazaux, @AFPphoto https://t.co/0sECjDLfEN

The government’s last line of defense on the dike north of Tuol Kork, PhnomPenh. During the day it gets overrun by the Khmer Rouge, along with the city’s airport. The intervention of the Parachute Brigade was to no avail. © @RNbkk’s excellent book “The fall of Phnom Penh”. https://t.co/fEfy9sAPpo