Reporting from Eastern Cambodia for @AFP, J. Gallois tells about Cambodians walking on desolate roads for nearly a month to get back to get back to their villages. Some lucky ones hitch rides on Vietnamese military trucks. Near Neak Luong fish became a currency: https://t.co/GJheafucUG

Badly wounded by Khmer Rouge soldiers, who tried to slit their throats, two Cambodians manage to stagger across the Thai border to safety. The wanted to return to their village were intercepted by 30 Khmer Rouge soldiers who tied them and brought them to their camp: https://t.co/uRZYT2ppMt

In an interview with @AFP, Hun Sen, the People’s Republic’s Foreign Minister admits a “serious food shortage” in Cambodia. Because of a lack of tools & seeds, “collective exploitation” is needed for agricultural production, “but without Khmer Rouge methods.” Thai Prime Minister Kriangsak seeks Soviet support for a Geneva conference on Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge, Sihanouk & Heng Samrin in attendance. Diplomats discussed “reconvening” Geneva 1954 for months, as it would predecide attendance (🇹🇭& ASEAN didn’t in 1954)

Meeting Castro in Havana, Ros Samay, General Secretary of Cambodia’s Salvation Front (KUNFS) says only a “few remnants” of Pol Pot’s regime remain opposition “scarcely exists.” Food and clothes, until recently scare, “are available thanks to socialist countries”

SPK (radio of the Kampuchean National United Front for National Salvation) announces “professional training courses” in “commune self management” which focus on the “stabilization” of people’s lives as well as “the development of production”.

Laotian President Souphanouvong, visits PhnomPenh to sign a “statement” of mutual cooperation, as well as agreements on economic, cultural, and technical “cooperation.” In a joint-communique China was urged to stop all acts of interference in Cambodia.