Khieu Samphan visits China’s Premier Zhou Enlai (file) in the hospital to discuss the fate of Prince Sihanouk. Zhou: “Sihanouk must be protected. He must remain your common rallying point. You must unite all those you can, to build a neutral, independent Cambodia.” https://t.co/nmNdR4xvdv

Khmer Rouge’s Khieu Samphan (right) and Deng Xiaoping sign an economic and technical co-operation agreement. Samphan announced that China had agreed to provide free and unconditional aid to Cambodia and that the whole country had become ‘a big construction site’. ©@AFP https://t.co/5u9wFORSgS In sharp contrast to a visiting high-level Vietnamese delegation, Camboida’s Khieu Samphan (right) and Ieng Sary (left) are received like Heads of State by China’s Vice Premier Deng Xiaping (second from left) on their arrival in Beijing. https://t.co/4Skk3hKM2U Son Sen, Khmer Rouge army Chief of staff, summones Kang Kek Iew (“Duch”) and In Lorn (“Nat”) to a meeting at the PhnomPenh railway station (photo from 1979) to establish…

Radio PhnomPenh announces that Ieng Sary (1976, @picturealliance) has been named Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs -diminishing the importance of Foreign Minister Sarin Chhak. Son Sen was named Deputy Defense Minister. Both are considered stanch opponents of Prince Sihanouk. https://t.co/Ffojjo7eZ7

In an interview with Kampuchea News Agency, Khieu Samphan (file photo) acknowledges hunger in Cambodia, a problem of “unprecedented gravity”. “We mobilized our people and our army deal with the new, extremely serious situation while at the same time manifesting deep patriotism” https://t.co/MK74xTgwrH

.@AP clip shows scenes from the Thai-Cambodian border, including a scene in a refugee camp. OnThisDay https://t.co/UUueqYIvIH

The Japanese Red Army takes 53 hostages at the AIA building in KualaLumpur, Malaysia, which housed several embassies. They sprayed graffities expressing solidarity with Cambodians. The JRA won the release of five imprisoned terrorists and flew with them to Libya.© @staronline https://t.co/VKkUyWijxb @richardvogt2019 .@KinPhea3 wrote a paper on the DPRK – Cambodia relations since 1964: https://t.co/nbSOLkmkGV

Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, and other Khmer Rouge leaders meet the Secretary General of the Vietnamese Communist Party Le Duan in PhnomPenh to discuss border issues, including the returning to Cambodia of the Paulo Wai Island. onthisday https://t.co/sUP8U4bciZ

5. “It is one thing to suffer to live, another thing to suffer only to die. I decided to give it two years. If nothing had changed I would commit suicide. Mey Komphot, July 1975 in Cambodia (now a banker) 4. An article in the Khmer Rouge magazine “Revolutionary Youth” explains the evacuation of PhnomPenh as “necessary to prevent uncontrolable ideological contamination of the revolutionary ranks, because of their vulnerability to frivolity, showinees, filth, loss of mastery.” 3. Khieu Samphan sent greetings to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who resides in NorthKorea and invited him and his wife to return to Cambodia. 2. Pol Pot established the Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea (“RAK”),…

@DocNish74 @Conservatives Indeed, but that happend after the Khmer Rouge had been overthrown. https://t.co/iMsYOJvuWK @CEtcheson @joshhkernn The NYT ran the story on July 24th, citing United Press International as their source. On July 25th they ran another story (again with UPI as its source) quoting a Thai official refering to the meeting: “We had been waiting for this occasion”. https://t.co/Lv54j64dXF @CEtcheson My source is the NYT from that day, I wasn’t able to find the respective issue of China Pictoral independently. https://t.co/WAgph6fnVL The US Senate deferred action on the promotion of Maj. Gen. Alton D. Slay (file photo) and his appointment as deputy chief of staff for research and development,…

Margaret Thatcher, head of @Conservatives speaks to the Chelsea Conservative Association: “Those who protested against US involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia have since overlooked and even managed to ignore the open savagery of the Khmer Rouge. Where are the protesters now?” Another photo published in the latest issue of the Peking monthly, “China Pictoral”, which was taken in Cambodia, shortly after the Khmer Rouge takeover, shows Son Sen, chief of staff of the army (left) and Hu Nim, Khmer Rouge information minister and former military commander. https://t.co/ZSFfccI8ya The Peking monthly, “China Pictoral” publishes in its latest issue photos made in Cambodia, shortly after the Khmer Rouge takeover. The caption says…