July 3, 1978: “While denouncing the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror is easy, we are unable to suggest ways in which the US & other countries might apply pressure against them. There appears to be no way, short of war, to influence the policies of Pol Pot”, says a @nytimes editorial July 3, 1978: The Chinese Government cuts all economic and technical aid to Vietnam and withdraws all Chinese technicians working at the remaining Chinese aid projects in Vietnam.

July 2, 1978: Associated Press gives historical background to the Cambodia-Vietnam conflict and highlights that Vietnam has the military power to overrun Cambodia if it wanted to https://t.co/GAyk9p3ViD

June 30, 1978: 🇫🇷TF1 interviews a rep. of the Human Rights League (“In Cambodia, human rights are denied”), a former Khmer Rouge & a refugee (“Cambodians are weakened & against the KR. Those who come to liberate them will be welcomed as liberators”) https://t.co/ozqks1s8l4

June 29, 1978: Vietnam denies it has launched a large-scale invasion of Cambodia, as Voice of America reported yesterday. VoA had wrongly interpreted a US Gov. report. Diplomats say🇻🇳made small well-planned shallow trusts in the Parrot’s Beak region causing🇰🇭heavy casualties.

June 25, 1978: The Khmer Rouge Ministry of Propaganda announces that a plan by Vietnam to overthrow the KR has been smashed. A second plan had been to annex Cambodia’s Eastern Zone to launch further attacks (1). It names 6 Vietnamese Communist Party officials reponsible (2): https://t.co/ApIeeD89Yd

June 24, 1978: Airplane mechanic Van recalls how female Khmer Rouge officials from the Southwest Zone started to take ~20 people out of the district prison each day, kill them, and throw their bodies into pits: https://t.co/N3pnnymQhX

June 21, 1978: Vietnam’s Radio Hanoi broadcasts in Khmer: “the entire Cambodian nation is now facing genocide,” and names Khmer Rouge Prime Minister Pol Pot and Deputy Prime Minister leng Sary as those “criminally responsible”.

June 20, 1978: The Khmer Rouge Central Committee issues a directive: “Misled Persons who joined the CIA/KGB or served as🇻🇳Agents” will be pardoned for counter-revolutionary activities before 1975. Duch later describes the directive as a deceptive ploy to calm the population.