4.Six former crew members, of the Mayaguez, which was seized by the Khmer Rouge in 1975, reach a $258,000 settlement 5. Border clashes between Cambodia and Vietnam 3d.On education Khmer Rouge FM IENG Sary said five-year-old children are enrolled in elementary schools, which are located directly in the cooperatives or the factories, “because the students study two or three hours a day and at the same time gain experience in manual labor”. 3c. On forced labor allegations IENG Sary said “how are people supposed to work if they are forced? We have achieved the good results simply because people see the need for work and because the revolutionary leaders and…

June 10th, 1977: Khmer Rouge Head of State Khieu Samphan receives the credentials of the incoming Yugoslav ambassador Mihailo Lompar (file) at the State Palace in PhnomPenh. https://t.co/706OzK3Nsu June 10, 1977: At S-21 the Khmer Rouge execute 198 prisoners from military divisions. https://t.co/DaJWwpvBS5

June 6th, 1977: Reviewing media reports, Noam Chomsky criticises in @thenation that most American media “emphasises alleged Khmer Rouge atrocities and downplays the role of the U.S. in the suffering of Cambodia.” https://t.co/AlpJOypG0b https://t.co/Yh37kpcAJs

May 30th, 1977: @Newsweek reports on Cambodia, a “strange country”, where fearful doctors hide their education, “so cholera is treated with coconut milk.” an where the “Khmer Rouge’s efforts to achieve economic self-reliance come at a cost of extreme physical hardship” https://t.co/1asYMO9nPT

May 29,1977: In internal communications the Khmer Rouge admit that the people’s living standard in the Northwest Zone is “at a shortage”, as “most people eat thin rice gruel” and people “lack clothes”. But “important shelters were built – no people are without lodging anymore”.

Thailand’s Dep. Prime Minister said his country is ready to give aid to and resume normal relations with Cambodia, if the Khmer Rouge are willing to work out common border conflicts, which “mostly result from an imprecise border”.

@chuonvutha You can read the confession here: https://t.co/T7Gqag1QG5 the annotations by Duch, Nuon Chea and Son Sen are highlighted separately here: https://t.co/T7Gqag1QG5 @chuonvutha Notes written on the confessions themselves are mostly comments on if the person is to be believed or not, or what is thought (or happened) to the people he or she implicated. Sometimes they only indicate that it was sent to or ready by Khmer Rouge leadership. Khmer Rouge Acting PM Nuon Chea writes on the S-21 confession of Kung Kien: “noted for the attention of Comrade Mok.” The confession was itself annotated by Son Sen: “to the attention of Brother Nuon personally”. Nuon Chea will later…

The Khmer Rouge continue to ship animal products to China: – 6 tons of monkey bone – 1.5tons of elephant bone – 24,760 dried geckos – a ton of snakes (mostly python) – 145kg of panther and tiger skins – 73 kg of black bear skins – 128kg of ringmark lizard