June 15, 1978: Mon Sieu, who fled to Thailand from Oddar Meanchey province says when the Khmer Rouge hear you complain about food you are “finished”: “In Cambodia there is no light punishment. We were never beaten. You are either warned at a meeting or executed.”

June 12, 1978: Talking to FM Sonoda in Tokyo, Khmer Rouge FM IENG Sary declines to discuss the human rights situation, but says the KR have no intention of killing its on people. “Manpower is urgently needed in Cambodia”. He highlights🇨🇳’s treachery and🇰🇭’s peacefull intent. June 12, 1978: @UPI reports that Vietnam moved some of its best and more experienced troops and divisions to the Cambodian border. To keep the movements secret they made use of the Ho Chi Minh Trail via Laos.

June 9, 1978: “Cambodia faces acts of aggression and annexation on a grand scale. 100,000s of enemy soldiers [alluding to Vietnam] massing along Cambodia’s borders”, Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister IENG Sary tells the @UN GA in a speech on disarmament. https://t.co/GuAhrYtFbq

June 8, 1978: To submit “factual material to document the human rights situation in Cambodia” to the @UN Human Rights Commission, the US State department orders its staff to ask🇰🇭 refugees on executions, population movements, living conditions, nutrition & political rights.

4. Romanian president Ceaucescu visits Cambodia 5. Cambodia proposes a 7-month cooling-off period after which-if there are no border incidents- talks could begin with Vietnam 6. Vietnam’s new economic policies cause tensions between China & 🇻🇳, as many ethnic Chinese leave🇻🇳 A recap on what happened in Cambodia in Mai 1978 under the Khmer Rouge: 1. Pol Pot purges the Eastern Zone with hundreds being brought to S-21 or killed on the spot 2. Heng Samrin flies to Vietnam 3. Pol Pot reiterates his “One against 30” policy June 6, 1978: Vietnam answers to Cambodia’s note from May 15th. As a first step to settle the border conflict,🇻🇳proposes a cease…

June 5, 1978: Southwest Zone Khmer Rouge troops under Son Sen’s command reach Babong and arrest over eighty villagers for their part in the uprising and bring them to a prison north of Peam Ro. Only twelve will survive the next weeks.

June 3, 1978: Khmer Rouge planes scatter leaflets over the Eastern Zone, proclaiming So Phim a traitor, wanted dead or alive, causing district chiefs to order his arrest. As 300 soldiers surround his place, So Phim loses hope & commits suicide. His wife & children are killed.

June 2, 1978: Resistance to the Khmer Rouge spreads: Demanding food, the peasants of Babong village rise up against the village administration and behead two Khmer Rouge cadres. In Chamcar Kuoy village peasants behead the village chief and four others.

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“Kill them all” writes Duch, head of S-21, on the biographies of 17 peasants from the 3rd Division, which had been acussed of “association with a dissident tendency” & were arrested because their parents had been. Among them: two 9 year-old boys & two 10yr-old girls