21 May 1978

H. Kamm asks Cambodian refugees at the Thai detention center at Buriram what they expect of the future:

“I don’t care, as long as we get food and some sleep and don’t have to live in Cambodia,” one said.

None of the interviewed, knew about the🇰🇭-🇻🇳border war.

In reviewing Cambodia’s defence strategy of the past year, Pol Pot reiterates his “One against 30” policy: https://t.co/wdptwDHdy6

“In the slow pace of world reaction to events in Cambodia there is a morbid parallel to the international blindness that first met the news of the camps in Nazi Germany,”

writes Leo Cherne in @WSJ.