Speaking @UN, Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary charges: “The border problem is not important. The real problem is that Vietnam wants to take possession of the whole of Kampuchea, to put Cambodia under its thumb.” https://t.co/QnXgkMwo8q

@UPI reports that Vietnam is moving troops to the Cambodian border in preparation for an offensive in the next 30 to 45 days, when the countryside dries out from unusually heavy monsoon rains. Russian is said to have increased arm shipments & sent technicians to🇻🇳.

Speaking at the @UN General Assembly, Khmer Rouge FM Ieng Sary says the situation in Cambodia is “excellent”. He says only Cambodians can judge the KR and they judged that this regime “is a good and fair one” & therefore “support it with great determination”. “Vietnam has been fighting a defensive war. We saw Russian built T-54 tanks, artillery & soldiers moving up to the front, waiting only until the rainy season ends for what probably will be an invasion of Cambodia,” predicts Canadian TV https://t.co/7eU3Wo5ycK

“Not one person who has actually been to Khmer Rouge Cambodia comes back with stories of forced labor, starvation or genocide” writes The Call, whose journalists visited in April. They see their enthusiastic assessment confirmed by reports of🇧🇪🇸🇪🇫🇷🇩🇰🇳🇴 delegations.

An entry in the S-21 prison notebook states that opposed to Khmer people who were to be interrogated without beatings, foreigners, Yuon (🇻🇳) and CIA imperialists would be interrogated following “absolute Special Branch methods, completely & totally, permanently”.

US Assistant Secretary of State admits to the Thai Foreign Minister that “a stable system of nation states in SEA” is a code phrase meaning “we believe Cambodia must exist even though we believe the Pol Pot Regime is the world’s worst violator of human rights.

A report for the US congress assesses the Vietnamese-Cambodian border war: The most likely scenarios are 1. indeterminate warfare, with rising and falling intensity 2. Vietnam establishes a Cambodian client government 3. a negotiated settlement https://t.co/JDSTpEOKjY

Gunnar Bergström writes of his trip to Cambodia for @SvD that from the empty towns, which seem strange, to the progress with irrigation and self-sufficiency in food & clothing, the lasting impression is that🇰🇭’s peasants “have begun creating a tolerable existance” https://t.co/q6t3JjYNNj

@SummonToes https://t.co/GDubBeC0Vi

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.