Asked by Japanese journalists if Vietnam will expand its war with Cambodia, China’s Deng Xiaoping says “it is hard to make predictions. If the scale expands, it will start war against China.”

In Cambodia to present his credentials as Japanese Ambassador, Shoji Sato travels by train to Sisophon (due to flooding) & then by car to Angkor Wat. He said PhnomPenh had more people than expected, he saw no armed guards in countryside & workers seemed “at ease”.

More than 300 Cambodian soldiers are being held as prisoners of war in Vietnam’s Xuan Loc Province. All were said to have been carrying arms on Vietnamese territory when captured. Many are young boys aged between 12 and 13. https://t.co/Ru4dhGJslt Speaking at a banquet in Peking, Khmer Rouge Nr.2 Nuon Chea expresses his gratitude to China for the received aid, encouragements and supports which have “reinforced Cambodia’s independence and sovereignty”. “🇰🇭has crushed 🇻🇳’s strategy of an “Indochina Federation”

Marking national day, Vietnam’s Prime Minister criticises China & the Khmer Rouge: “The reactionary forces among Peking’s ruling circles are using the Pol Pot – Ieng Sary counter-revolutionary clique as shock troops to start a war to inflict big losses on🇻🇳” https://t.co/fqdyf2baoo

“As your virulent appeals for war against Cambodia prove, you haven’t forgotten the genocide perpetrated during 5-year war by U.S. imperialists, who massacred & crippled a million🇰🇭”-the Khmer Rouge respond to US Senator McGovern’s call for a military intervention

Still in Cambodia, Jan Myrdal compares his experience to his 1967 trip and writes an enthusiastic report: He praises the KhmeRouge’s decision to evacuate cities, that everybody is working, has food & clothes & that🇰🇭’s rice surplus is used to industrialise https://t.co/zu1BhB5aG5 In Thailand, Tuay Mien, is jailed as protection from other Cambodian refugees. Tuay, a Khmer Rouge cadre, led a major cooperative in Battambang province, in a cruel & arbitrary manner. That Tuay had to flee underscores the KR’s growing paranoia, writes FEER.

Jan Myrdal interviews Pol Pot for Swedish TV. Asked of Cambodia’s main achievements of the past 3 1/2 years, Pol Pot says that all interferences and coup attempts were fended off: https://t.co/fqp7DGJHDv

“For the past 3 years in beautiful, ancient Cambodia, a band of murderous thugs has been systematically killing their fellow citizens. Two million are said to have been killed. But the world turns its face, stills its voice & dulls its conscience”-US Sen. McGowern