A delegation of the Canadian Communist League interviews Khmer Rouge Prime Minister Pol Pot, who says “We stand on protracted war and we are confident of victory.” https://t.co/VRfZPFdUYf The methods the Khmer Rouge used in Cambodia to get their system to work will continue to be discussed & condemned. “But the economic system, I am forced to conclude, seems to be working,” writes Becker after visiting cooperatives & a rubber plantation. https://t.co/kVCSWsPMXI

Dec. 28: “We forced the Vietnamese occupiers to withdraw once & we will do it again with guerrilla warfare: allow the enemy to enter & then attack, harass the enemy so he doesn’t have a minute’s rest”, the🇨🇦delegation interviews a Khmer Rouge cadre, who is confident in🇰🇭victory. https://t.co/0JRxpeWOTY

Erawan International Company Chairman Maj.-Gen. Chatichai Choonhavan (third from right) arrives with the first group of tourists in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat for a day-trip costing 4,500 Baht per person. https://t.co/2MkpxtvZkM

Vietnam launches a full-scale offensive with the aim to topple the Khmer Rouge, using 13 divisions, estimated at 150,000 soldiers well-supported by heavy artillery and air power.

The radio of the Salvation Front broadcasts that more than 30% of the people treated by its medical teams in the areas in Cambodia liberated from the Khmer Rouge suffered from malaria or intestinal disorders and many suffer from acute malnutrition A delegation of the Canadian Communist League, which arrived in Cambodia yesterday for a week-long trip, visits Angkor Wat. Like many other they take a naive Potemkin Village stance:“We have produced this pamphlet to tell the truth about what we saw & heard in🇰🇭.” https://t.co/hKSR8mJJsW

Vietnam captures Khmer Rouge soldiers, which attacked Vietnam’s Tay Ninh province. https://t.co/k1EdqpE6pd After a ceremony at the guest house, where the assassination took place, where Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Sary blames the Vietnamese in his short eulogy and expresses Cambodia’s deepest regrets for the death of Malcolm Caldwell, Becker and Dudman head to Beijing

Shortly after midnight a Khmer assailant breaks into the guesthouse in PhnomPenh and kills Malcom Caldwell. A Khmer Rouge official describes the murder as “a political act to discredit us & to show that we cannot protect our friends” Dudman recounts the incident: https://t.co/ICe7gZbLw3 Malcolm Caldwell is granted a separate interview with Pol Pot as a “friend” of the Khmer Rouge. Becker notes that Caldwell returned delighted, having mostly discussed economic theory. Pol Pot invited him to return next year to measure how the revolution prospered. Becker & Dudman interview Pol Pot. She had doubted claims of his charisma but says in person he does have appeal. More lecture than…

Two Vietnamese divisions move towards the town of Kratie, while other support divisions are deployed along local routes to cut off the logistical tail of Khmer Rouge units. “Vietnam’s heavy involvement in Cambodia unsettles the region and is of concern to us,” advises US Secretary of State Christopher his diplomats go point out when meeting the Russian Foreign Minister. RT @Elizbeckerwrite: December 1978 – official dinner in Phnom Penh with Ieng Sary, Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister. My photo of him with Prof.… RT @Elizbeckerwrite: The empty Central Market in Phnom Penh – December 1978 in Pol Pot’s Cambodia Khmer Rouge. https://t.co/YqcNYNZELn RT @Elizbeckerwrite: Our visit to the frontlines during our…