16 July 1975
Please add anything I have missed! Read more on US press coverage on genocide in Cambodia: https://t.co/0kdtzs6cCX
8. Other journalists, like the unnamed author of a @thenation editorial however urged for skepticism and accused the US gov. of seeking to stimulate “racist and ideological fears” by using “alarmist reports from intelligence officials that conveniently could never be proven”
7. Outside Cambodia, international news outlets, including @nytimes, and @washingtonpost report on the severe food shortage and suffering of the Cambodian people under the Khmer Rouge based on refugee accounts. First warnings of genocide emerge.
5. Khmer Rouge Comrade Pin ordered to “smash” seventeen officers of the Lon Nol’s Khmer Republic.
6. Some refugees were able to cross into Thailand
6. Some refugees were able to cross into Thailand
3. Pol Pot and other Khmer Rouge leaders visited Mao in Beijing and the KR Foreign Minister traveled to Albania.
4. The name “S-21” (now Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) first appears in KR documents. “S” stands for “security”(Khmer: “santisuk”) 21 codes its physical location.
4. The name “S-21” (now Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) first appears in KR documents. “S” stands for “security”(Khmer: “santisuk”) 21 codes its physical location.
A recap on what happened in Cambodia in June 1975 under the Khmer Rouge.
1. Clashes both at land and sea borders with Thailand as well as further frontier skirmishes with Vietnam.
2. Pol Pot visited Hanoi to discuss those, but his visit was described as a “protocol event”.