10 October 1978
Radio PhnomPenh broadcasts Pol Pot’s speech celebrating the 18th anniversary of the🇰🇠Communist Party, where he warns of further Vietnamese attacks, but claims that their “effective” forces “engaged in aggression” went from 6 divisons in April to 2 in September. https://t.co/PJv0NmAql9
“The US should convince China that it is in their self-interest to stop support for the Khmer Rouge” says Chhang Son,Lon Nol’s Info Minister in @csmonitor.
He criticises that it took 3 years to hear official protest, although evidence of genocide was mounting.
He criticises that it took 3 years to hear official protest, although evidence of genocide was mounting.