5 September 1978

Still in Cambodia, Jan Myrdal compares his experience to his 1967 trip and writes an enthusiastic report: He praises the KhmeRouge’s decision to evacuate cities, that everybody is working, has food & clothes & that🇰🇭’s rice surplus is used to industrialise https://t.co/zu1BhB5aG5

In Thailand, Tuay Mien, is jailed as protection from other Cambodian refugees. Tuay, a Khmer Rouge cadre, led a major cooperative in Battambang province, in a cruel & arbitrary manner. That Tuay had to flee underscores the KR’s growing paranoia, writes FEER.