For @ICJ_org’s submission to @UN Human Rights Commission, F. Ponchaud summarises human rights violations in Cambodia, having interviewed several hundred refugees. He says in 1978 purges their own ranks & from the age of six, children are cut of from their parents: https://t.co/QZj9euRkwx

Jack Anderson writes in @washingtonpost that Cambodian refugees are sometimes sent back by Thai border police. Refugees speak of corrupt & brutal refugee camp commanders, who regularly beat them when drunk. Some refugees who sought work outside the camps were shot. In its submission to the @UN Human Rights Commission, @Amnesty notes that since 1975 no official Khmer Rouge statement has made any reference to the existence of law, judicial institutions or procedures guaranteeing the rights of individual citizens in Cambodia. https://t.co/6AqPZzPlI7

Sailing on the”Foxy Lady” from Malaysia to Bangkok, John Dehirst, Stuart Glass and Kerry Hamill drift into Cambodian waters and get intercepted by a Khmer Rouge patrol boat off Koh Tang. Glass is shot during the arrest, Dehirst & Glass are brought to S-21. https://t.co/0na87j7VTV Khmer Rouge radio PhnomPenh accuses Vietnam of allowing the USSR to set up military bases in Vietnam. It also says”🇻🇳wants to swallow Cambodia in a single gulp.”

Aug. 12 1978: Gunnar Bergström, Hedvig Ekerwald, Jan Myrdal and Marita Wikander from the Swedish-Kampuchean friendship association tour Cambodia for two weeks (see map). They will meet Pol Pot and visit cooperatives, Angkor Wat & sleep in the Royal Palace in Siem Reap. https://t.co/sDopQMP040

A Khmer Rouge guard of S-21 prison journals: “It is a problem that beatings are being heard outside the prison.” Duch, Head of S-21, later testifies: “No prisoner dared to scream. It was an exaggeration that the screams from beatings could be heard outside.” 7. Former Cambodian President Lon Nol calls for a @UN intervention in Cambodia or Soviet influence in Southeast Asia will grow. 6. The July issue of Khmer Rouge magazine “Revolutionary Flag” declares it a national duty “to eliminate our aggressive, territory-swallowing and genocidal Yuon [🇻🇳] enemy.” And it exhorts readers to “sweep out the concealed enemy boring from within even more absolutely clean” 4. Osvaldo Pesce…

A woman that tried to flee and is arrested by the Khmer Rouge says: “No need to re-educate me. I won’t listen to this shit! The Socialist Revolution is always boastful of prosperity. Only shit is plentiful! We eat just gruel.”

The Canadian embassy in Bangkok says it will interview Cambodian refugees to gather material for use at the @UN Human Rights Commission which starts in Geneva on Aug. 28th. Earlier this year🇨🇦’s House of Commons condemned Khmer Rouge human right violations in🇰🇭. Salai Montri, daughter of a high ranking Lon Nol official flees to Thailand. She says Cambodians now have sufficient food but the fare is spartan, there is little clothing available and no medicine. “High-ranking Khmer Rouge enjoy a much better standard of life”. A Khmer Rouge cadre reports on two women who refused to work and to refashion. They disappeared for 2 days & complained saying that “dying…

A Khmer Rouge monthly report of Cambodia’s Western Zone gives figures for various crops including rice (1), tobacco and medicinal plants (2), as well as for fertiliser and pesticide production (1). https://t.co/kV50O8Fu1s Aug.4, 1978: A Khmer Rouge monthly report from the Western Zone states that more than 100 Vietnamese, including children were “smashed”. As the report talks about measures for Vietnamese combatants (see 4.) those smashed were most likely civilians. https://t.co/GhbZ1PM2Tc

July 31, 1978: “The enormity of the crime has been carefully reconstructed from eyewitness reports… the lowest estimate of the bloodbath to date – by execution, starvation, & disease – is in the hundreds of thousands,” writes Aikman in Cambodia: An Experiment in Genocide @TIME

July 29, 1978: Speaking at the meeting of nonaligned nations in Belgrade, Khmer Rouge FM IENG Sary calls for the expulsion of expansionist Vietnam. Meanwhile Prince Sihanouk, he said, was now permitted to travel inside Cambodia & spends “very little time in Phnom Penh.” July 30, 1978: A delegation of the Danish Communist Workers’ Party, led by Peter Bischoff, while in Beijing, received a surprise invitation to tour Cambodia for a week. Unusually they meet Khmer Rouge Nr. 2 Nuon Chea, who tells them the history of the Cambodian Communist party. https://t.co/cyG8vLoGWB