28 November 1978

China is helping the Khmer Rouge to build an airfield near Phnom Penh capable of handling both jet fighters and bombers having an estimated 20,000 advisors and technicians in Cambodia, reports the Far Eastern Economic Review.

Radio Phnom Penh asserts that a member of the “Monong national minority” in Vietnam had accused Hanoi of being ‘the crudest exterminators of the national minorities.” (It is a very rare that the Khmer Rouge officially recognise a minority group by name)