11 May 1976

Kuon, 31 years old, who along with Chinese technicians also worked as a flight trainer for the Khmer Rouge said he is going to apply for asylum in France. onthisday https://t.co/NXHZe7qkkL

Kuon said he had been planing his escape “for the last 2 years”. He named Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) as the most powerful Khmer Rouge leader and said Sihanouk was considered to be “Enemy Nr 1.” He said the KR kiled virtually all the rich, civil servants & members of the old army” 2/2

Lt Pech Kuon, a former Khmer Republic airforce pilot, who bombed Lon Nol’s palace in 1973 (pictured after the bombing), then defected to the Khmer Rouge, and who after the Fall of PhnomPenh was a helicopter pilot for senior KR, escapes to Thailand in a helicopter.
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@2062Yun @AFP Unfortunately the give no name in the article.

According to @AFP the Liberation Front for Northern Cambodia, consisting of ~200 armed men led by a former Lon Nol officer, controls a 100 km² area in the jungle south of Poipet. For now, it aims to help refugees flee and spread the word that resistance to the Khmer Rouge exists