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11 October 1978
@SummonToes https://t.co/GDubBeC0Vi
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10 October 1978
Radio PhnomPenh broadcasts Pol Pot’s speech celebrating the 18th anniversary of the🇰🇭 Communist Party, where he warns of further Vietnamese attacks, but claims that their “effective” forces “engaged in aggression” went from 6 divisons in April to 2 in September. https://t.co/PJv0NmAql9 “The US should convince China that it is in their self-interest to stop support for the Khmer Rouge” says Chhang Son,Lon Nol’s Info Minister in @csmonitor. He criticises that it took 3 years to hear official protest, although evidence of genocide was mounting.
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9 October 1978
5. The August 1978 issue of Revolutionary Flag refers to the Vietnamese as the “territory-swallowing expansionist genocidal Yuon aggressor enemy” & says “We see clearly that the Kampuchean people under the leadership of our Party are fighting bravely to eradicate the Yuon enemy” 4. Having so far only imported black clothing, the Khmer Rouge start to distribute blue clothing to evacuees from the Eastern Zone, which are viewed as “Khmer bodies with Vietnamese minds“. Refugees reported that people wearing blue scarfs “were killed a lot”. 3. Pol Pot talks to a visiting delegation from the Belgium-Kampuchea and Swedish-Kampuchean Friendship Association. (Photos by🇸🇪Gunar Bergström) https://t.co/vSJt9o8q9F A recap on what happened in…
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2 October 1978
Interviewing Pol Pot, two Hong Kong journalists ask about “problems in Cambodia reported by the world media” which Pol Pot understands as insecurity, human right violations and that the Khmer Rouge government has only a few members: https://t.co/EK9B8KD9ju
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1 October 1978
The US denies to support the Khmer Exile Group in challenging the Khmer Rouge credentials at @UN as it is “longstanding policy to not do that on political grounds”. “But in no way does it depreciate from the US concern over human rights situation in Cambodia”.
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28 September 1978
In his confession at S-21, Yachtsman Kerry Hamil, who was captured last month, gives Colonel Sanders and Captain Pepper as his supposed CIA commanders & uses his parents’ friends’ names as fellow officers and his home telephone number as his CIA operative number. https://t.co/dNQFX5NdyI
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27 September 1978
The Khmer Rouge Voice of Democratic Kampuchea broadcast says Vietnam has undertaken “feverish diplomatic manoeuvres of seduction, in the way of a cat hiding its claws, in Southeast Asia” in order to isolate Cambodia internationally.
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26 September 1978
Writing about her trip to Cambodia for 🇸🇪’s Aftonbladet Marita Wikander describes a calm Cambodia and wonders if US Senator McGovern, who in August called for international military efforts to free Cambodia from a genocidal regime “is talking about this country” https://t.co/tPI17eLs65 Reporting in🇸🇪’s Dagens Nyheter from his recent trip, Hedvig Ekerwald says in Cambodia all get enough to eat, clothing without holes, decent housing, can participate politically and work at at will at a “calm pace”. He also rejects the “atrocity propaganda”: https://t.co/Fh2IdUPlot
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25 September 1978
Speaking to Turkish journalists, Pol Pot evaluates the abolishment of money in Cambodia three and a half years ago: https://t.co/fBrNxFB4gw
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24 September 1978
A Khmer Rouge broadcast charges: “The Le Duan-Van Dong clique carries out in the most savage & fascist way the racist policy by slaughtering the different nationalities living in Vietnam. It committed numerous crimes against the Khmer nationality in Kampuchea Krom”
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