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    16 April 1978

    The North Korean ship “Kuang Kim San” arrives in Cambodia, carrying 438,000 £ of steel products and tools. https://t.co/sVPbrJO3zB Returning from a trip to China, Thai Premier Kriangsak said China declined to help solve Thailand’s border problems with Cambodia and he believes border clashes were instigated by Thai communists and not the Khmer Rouge Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua tells his Swedish counterpart, who visited Beijing that China didn’t foresee that the Cambodian-Vietnamese border conflict would develop into a war and that it would not mediate a solution to the conflict: https://t.co/1jkdC5T0gH

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    13 April 1978

    @DionLesmana_ID Yes, keep in mind that Radio PhnomPenh is a propaganda organ of the Khmer Rouge, but the content of the propaganda can still be revealing. Nguyen Van Chen, a Vietnamese colonel, captured by the Khmer Rouge, says on Radio PhnomPenh: “Vietnam has set up a special operational headquarter to coordinate and complete the conquest of Cambodia by the end of this year”. https://t.co/ezVuENgwbo

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    10 April 1978

    4. In the February issue of Khmer Rouge magazine “Revolutionary Flag”, Pol Pot highlights his stance on children: “When the mother is good, the children are good.” Duch later testifies that children are brought to S-21 with their parents “to avoid revenge at a later stage”. 3. TOAT Thoeun stages a rebellion against Ta Mok’s forces from the forrest he had been hiding with nine others to escape being arrested by the KR. Destroying most of Ta Mok’s battalion – only 40 managed to flee- mobile units started to join Toat’s forces. A recap on what happened in Cambodia in February 1978 under the Khmer Rouge: 1. Vietnam offered Cambodia…

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    1 April 1978

    The Yuguslav Press delegation visiting Cambodia was puzzled by the unopened heavy bank safes in the debris of the National Bank & says life in Phnom Penh revolves around The Friendship cinema, theatre, hostel & diplomatic club: (says Yuguslav News Service Tanjug) https://t.co/0Z2U7lTcae