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16 July 1977
5. June’s issue of Khmer Rouge magazine “Revolutionary Flag”, acknowledges food shortages: “the diet of some workers may be somewhat poor during the rainy season, leading people to be a little weak” 6. Surveying human rights country-by-country, @FCDOGovUK places Cambodia last A recap on what happened in Cambodia in June 1977 under the Khmer Rouge: 1. Khmer Rouge commander Hun Sen, who is now Cambodian PM, defects to Vietnam 2. Vietnamese and Cambodian forces clash 3. More than 109 ethnic Jarai are executed 4. Laos and Cambodia establish an air link @VDacicus No, the districts were Grok Tram Kan (southwest) , Grok Kampong Tralach Leu (west), Srok Prasot (east)
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11 July 1977
June 30, 1977: The Khmer Rouge Central Committee awards the “Honorary Red Flag”, the highest honour, to only 3 districts. Factors for meriting the award: -increased production -improvements to living standards -independence & self-reliance -revolutionary stance & class struggle June 30, 1977: H. Kamm, who will win a Pulitzer, interviews Cambodian refugees in Thailand. Not allowed to leave the camp, many do occasionally work in agriculture or construction at less than the minimum of $1.25/day. Often “we are paid less than promised, or not at all.”
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8 July 1977
June 27, 1977: Thorn Piew & Pan Wan arrive in Thailand, after fleeing from a village near Battambang. They were married in a mass ceremony by Khmer Rouge officers, who come to their collective farm every 3-4 months to give lectures on farming methods and ideology. https://t.co/iM6vVrGA8w
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3 July 1977
June 22, 1977: The US House of Representative ignored a specific request by President Carter and voted to bar any aid to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, even through international organisations.
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1 July 1977
June 20th, 1977: 12 Cambodians “weak from hunger and some suffering malaria”, arrive in a refugee camp in Thailand. Initially they fled in a group of 60, but many were killed by Khmer Rouge soldiers or malaria. https://t.co/mm4pa6JqpU June 20, 1977: Khmer Rouge commander Hun Sen (photo 2017), who will later become Prime Minister of Cambodia, defects to Vietnam to escape the purges of cadres taking place in the Eastern Zone. https://t.co/JMmlu6IrGH
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28 June 1977
June 17, 1977: Khmer Rouge soldiers report several incidents of Vietnamese soldiers entering Cambodia in Svay Rieng province. They also find leaflets written in both Vietnamese and Cambodian calling for peace: https://t.co/rAWyPgIMAf
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26 June 1977
June 15, 1977: Khmer Rouge Comrade Vy sends a telegram to NUON Chea, IENG Sary and SON Sen: “We captured 209 Vietnamese soldiers [most are ethnic Jarai] in Sector 107”. He asks for a “high-level decision”. At least 100 of them will be executed at Au Kanseng Security Centre.
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25 June 1977
June 14, 1977: Three men are executed at Prachin Buri Prison in Thailand. They were judged guilty on leading Khmer Rouge troops to attack three Thai border villages in January, where 30 villagers were massacred. They were also found guilty of smuggling weapons to Cambodia. https://t.co/eshMazbAg9
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24 June 1977
June 13, 1977: After learning from a local Khmer Rouge cadre that “ten new people from Phnom Penh” had planed flee to Thailand, the KR district secretary proposes that they should be “harshly and thoroughly interrogated to find their network”.
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23 June 1977
June 12, 1977: Thai border police finds the bodies of more than 50 Cambodians and skulls, mounted on sticks on the Thai-Cambodian border. A refugee said the victims where slain by the Khmer Rouge as a warning to others to not flee Cambodia. June 12,1977: The “Leap Dal” oil tanker carrying 249 refugees from Cambodia,🇰🇭&🇻🇳still lies looking for a port in Malaysian waters. Thich Nhat Hanh, a well‐known leader of the antiwar forces in Vietnamese Buddhism, chartered it to dramatise the plight of Indochinese refugees: https://t.co/lxIhS9FTgA June 12, 1977: In his “self-criticism”, NHEP Yan describes a plot of his bosses in Hospital 22 “to produce insufficient medicine & oppose Khmer…
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