So Cantho, now in a refugee camp in Thailand, tells how he managed to escape the Khmer Rouge. He had to stay 19 days in a Thai prison, because he was suspected of being a KR spy. https://t.co/pyPDSIt9Wx

Conducting a nightly raid on three villages, Khmer Rouge soldiers kill 29 Thai villagers. Cambodia also dispatched more than 1000 troops to the border area. Thailand evacuated nearby villages in response to the attack. https://t.co/MJAvKtslOY

July 30, 1977: China’s Foreign minister Huang Hua on the border conflicts Cambodia has with Vietnam, Laos, & Thailand: 1. cease-fire and negotiations & solidarity important 2. China will not take any side 3. China supports Cambodia against Soviet revisionist social-imperialism

July 26, 1977: A US House of Representatives sub-committee approves a resolution condemning large scale killings in Cambodia and calls on President Carter to rally international support to bring repressive measures to an end.

July 25, 1977: Khmer Rouge soldiers attack and loot a village in Surin, Thailand, burning down several houses before retreating back to Cambodia. Five soldiers, 2 women and 2 children were killed in the attack. onthisday https://t.co/bzpZRhEhvb July 25, 1977: At the West Zone Cadre Conference, the Yuon (Vietnamese) are identified as “enemies that embed themselves within our army or cooperatives.” “The purpose of the conference was to instil consciousness of Yuon tricks”, testified attendee MEAS Voeun. July 25, 1977: “Cambodia acted to distract from internal problems”, says Thai Premier Thanin (visiting a solider in the hospital) on recent border clashes. “We will try to only react locally to border…

July 24, 1977: As many “bad elements” held themselves out to be “Angkar”, Khmer Rouge leaders issue a directive: 1. The term “Angkar” or “Party” is used only for the organization. 2. For individuals, “comrade” or “comrade representing Angkar at this or that level” shall be used. July 24, 1977: Khmer Rouge leadership is called Angka. Regional Angka men never come from the villages areas they rule. None is known to have fled Cambodia. They eat the same rice gruel as regular people. Not doing physical labor, “they can survive on that”, refugees tell @UPI

July 21, 1977: KE Kim Huot, the former Secretary of Sector 7 of the Northwest Zone is tortured at Tuol Sleng (S-21). Khmer Rouge Interrogators electrocuted him and forced him to eat three spoonfuls of excrement, at which point he became delirious and later confessed.