About 50,000 civilians are cornered in a 50-kilometre long area running parallel to the Thai border, with Khmer Rouge troops forming a line between them and the border to prevent them escaping to Thailand. The KR are said to exhaust their food supply in 5 days.

In a radio broadcast marking the 4th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge taking power in Cambodia, Khieu Samphan says that despite increased Vietnamese activity his forces would continue fighting until they won “total victory.”

800 Khmer Rouge, both soldiers and civilians, crossed into Buri Ram Province, Thailand under pressure from large scale Vietnamese attacks near Samroang. About 50,000 Vietnamese soldiers face 5 to 15,000 Khmer Rouge in Western Cambodia. https://t.co/Hu2pZIdpV8 88 armed Khmer Rouge soldiers cross into Thailand near Poipet. After receiving medical attention, they were given their weapons back & trucked by Thai military to another spot along the border where they reentered Cambodia south of the main Vietnamese drive.

Nim Chandara marries Hun Sen’s sister Sinath, 6 days after Hun Sen’s request to do so. Hun Sen had visited Chandara’s army unit in February, was impressed by his education & gave him a job in the bodyguard unit of Meas Sovanndy, who married Hun Sen’s sister Seng Ny.

H. Chandola reports from an empty PhnomPenh, as people have to wait in temporary camps till the city is “ready to sustain normal life”. Building up food supplies & reviving businesses are challenging. A soft-drink factory & textile mill opened recently. https://t.co/S4LEcRTWg2

Cambodia’s SPK broadcasts that PhnomPenh’s main streets were renamed: Monivong and Norodom Boulevard are renamed after revolutionaries. Kampuchea Krom Avenue becomes Kampuchea-Vietnam Friendship Avenue and France & Yugoslavia lose their namesake Boulevards. https://t.co/1bRLZMWKUi Vietnamese forces capture Palin, the last city controlled by the Khmer Rouge. About 500 Khmer Rouge soldiers fled to Thailand at Borai.

Some 2,000 human skeletons were found at the bottom of a shallow lake on the southern fringe of the town of Stung Treng, reports the Cambodian news agency SPK. Remains of clothing on the bodies indicate that the massacres took place 12 to 18 months ago.

Wanting to influence a coordination meeting in June, Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary challenges Vietnam’s credentials as a Non-aligned state in a letter to @UN https://t.co/WQkTWZ6lCO

“The Cambodian capital has the look of a ghost city, a remnant of a lost age, whose residents have suddenly been wiped out by a mysterious death ray” writes J. Gallois. Only some 3,000 officials & their families have been officially allowed to return to PhnomPenh Khmer Rouge troops at the Ta Sanh base surrender as it was overrun by Vietnamese soldiers. Pol Pot, Nuon Chea & Khieu Samphan escaped just hours before, as Ieng Sary had warned them. They had to abandon part of the KR Central Committee archive, vehicles & weapons. https://t.co/e37BvfPs9o

Vietnamese-led troops beat back an attempt by the Khmer Rouge to capture the border town of Poipet, according to Thai military sources. 500 KR soldiers had attacked the town from two directions but had to withdraw back to their jungle bases. China dismisses a claim by Hun Sen, the People’s Republic’s Foreign Minister that Chinese military advisers had been captured in Cambodia, as a “pure fabrication”. All military advisors were withdrawn from Cambodia before the Fall of the Khmer Rouge in January.