6 May 1976

Talking to @WashingtonPost Cheong Huong, a refugee who build irrigation ditches in Cambodia, said 1,300 workers were guarded by 5-6 KhmerRogue soldiers. They didn’t carry they weapons when they worked.

Q: Why didn’t you overpower them and escape? https://t.co/GJc4Q4mkRD

Lewis S. Simons writes for @washingtonpost that immediately after the Khmer Rouge came to power, they went on to execute what Khieu Samphan, now Head of State, wrote in his doctoral thesis in Paris in 1959, and sealed Cambodia off from the world and its economic influences: https://t.co/fbAFUjxAmv