On the Cambodian-Thai border following the announcement of the fall of PhnomPenh to the Khmer Rouge. A Khmer Rouge radio station had announced that most of the top leaders of the former government had been executed.© @GettyImages OnThisDay https://t.co/F0tn0DCC7U The @ASEAN countries Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines recognized the Khmer Rouge government of Cambodia. Thailand closed its border with Cambodia to keep out Cambodian refugees. Note that Premier Long Boret had not made it to Thailand yesterday. https://t.co/bVKWRAHgHa

@J_Andrew_Boyle @RNbkk My apologies, I had a mistake in my notes. You are correct that this photo was taken at the Thai border. My recommendation for @RNbkk’s book still stands of course. This photo by Sjoberg is at the French embassy and shows civil servants from the fallen government seeking refuge. https://t.co/OFbWXFtZnF For a brief overview of the history of the Khmer Rouge, please have a look at this thread. Thank you for reading. https://t.co/gIbzaTpgMG An employee of the French embassy hands out a cigarette to a Khmer Rouge soldier. In total approximately 800 expatriates and 600 Cambodians took refuge at the French Embassy. ©@RNbkk. You can find many more…

Civilians wait to be evacuated. The Cambodian Airforce bombs the airforce control centre and hangars at PhnomPenh airport, upon its capture by the Khmer Rouge. Then they flew to Thailand with some civilians on board. OnthisDay. ©@AFPphoto https://t.co/Y0RpQ1VAOo The military situation worsens further. The Shell oil depot in PhnomPenh was set ablaze by gunfire. The government sent a final peace offer to the Khmer Rouge. As by 23:00 there was still no response, the Cabinet realized that the Khmer Rouge did not want to accept. ©@usairforce https://t.co/nEgdVPtoH0

A government soldier comforts a family whose relatives were found murdered in a rice field near PhnomPenh, Cambodia. Refugees continue to poor into the city, and are used as a human shield by the advancing Khmer Rouge. OnThisDay ©Jean Jacques Cazaux, @AFPphoto https://t.co/0sECjDLfEN The government’s last line of defense on the dike north of Tuol Kork, PhnomPenh. During the day it gets overrun by the Khmer Rouge, along with the city’s airport. The intervention of the Parachute Brigade was to no avail. © @RNbkk’s excellent book “The fall of Phnom Penh”. https://t.co/fEfy9sAPpo

A defecting AirForce pilot attempts to kill Cambodia’s chief executive, dropping four bombs over the FANK headquarters were General Sak held a cabinet meeting. He escaped unscathed, but 7 were killed. The Khmer Rouge advanced further and now threaten PhnomPenh from all sides. https://t.co/ws8QLGYJ8n

An evacuated Cambodian refugee and her child at @USArmy base at U-Tapao, Thailand. Normally New Year’s festivities would start today, but as the Khmer Rouge continue to bombard PhnomPenh, Cambodia no official new year celebrations took place. onthisday. ©@AP_Images https://t.co/kqfJaINd0H General Sak Sutsakhan becomes the new president of Cambodia. “I realized that I must find a way to an honorable peace immediately. I decided to make our last peace offer to Prince Sihanouk”. Sak’s cousin was Nuon Chea, who will become a prominent member of the Khmer Rouge. https://t.co/XnoF8OjD6u RT @JimLaurie_Asia: OnThisDay 1975. Our video of evacuation frm Cambodia of US Embassy, interntl journalists & Khmer civilians by Marine…

Saukam Khoy, President of the Khmer Republic arrives on USS Okinawa. He left without telling his fellow Cambodian leaders and is the only one who took the evacuation offer of the American ambassador, despite all being on a Khmer Rouge kill list. OperationEaglePull. onthisday https://t.co/Il8iE07ZpD US Ambassador to Cambodia, John Gunther Dean, carries the American flag from the @USEmbPhnomPenh he arrives at Utapao Air Force Base in Thailand. The evacuation proceeded smoothly with only one helicopter suffering minor damage through gunfire. OnthisDay https://t.co/5jjVfdkSTP With @USMC providing cover in PhnomPenh, Americans and Cambodians board marine helicopters during the final U.S. pullout of Cambodia. The were less evacuees than anticipated: 84 US…

.@POTUSPresident Gerald R Ford is briefed by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on the evacuation of Americans from Phnom Penh, Cambodia called, ‘Operation Eagle Pull,’ in the Cabinet Room of the @WhiteHouse, Washington DC. OnThisDay © @kennerly https://t.co/lUQiP3wFI7

.@POTUS Ford asks Congress for $1 billion in emergency aid for South Vietnam and Cambodia. Ford: “The US made major efforts to end the conflict. But because of their military successes and awareness of US legal restrictions, the Khmer Rouge shows no interest in negotiation”. https://t.co/vDRPGDM9zp RT @JimLaurie_Asia: OnThisDate 45 years ago, I did not know it， but I was beginning my last full day in Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge v…

From their foxholes, government soldiers keep watch on the heavy smoke rising in Stung Kambot, north of PhnomPenh. Stung Kambot was heavily struck by US B-52s during the secret bombing campaign of Cambodia, driving many locals to join the Khmer Rouge. © Rar, @AP_Images https://t.co/lgUF8n1138 A young Cambodian government soldier stands in a foxhole, at Ang Snoul and counts his payment for March. Ang Snoul was the site of a Khmer Rouge massacre, when it was briefly under their control in January, before being recaptured by the government. © Veasna, @AP_Images https://t.co/PbyB1sKS0y Government soldiers fire 81mm mortars in support of ground troops trying to recapture a position off Highway 5,…