Visiting a pharmaceutical factory Que saw there was no machinery; mixing was done by hand. The workers were mostly illiterate, 12-to-14 years old. The factory director, a 17 year old woman needed no engineers or technicians: “the people can master the plant.” At a PhnomPenh textile factory Que who headed the Vietnamese Woman Delegation was told how the former workers had all been sent for “reeducation.” The factory was now operated mostly by newly recruited peasants. The 🇻🇳 Woman Delegation headed by Ha Thi Que (file) concludes a 6-day visit to Cambodia. Que says she had no contact with ordinary people. “In Phnom Penh we saw lots of coconuts on…

8. January’s issue of Khmer Rouge magazine “Revolutionary Flag” states that 15-20 million people are needed “to meet the needs of our land. For our population to increase, the livelihood of the people must rise. A 1977 KR schoolbook states Cambodia’s population as 7.7 million. 7. Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister IENG Sary summarises the achievements of 1976 in an diary entry and included having found many cases of “CIA pests” and that “Our enemies are now decrepit and possibly dying” 6. At the 9th anniversary of the Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea, Acting Prime Minister NUON Chea[falsely] states that “each Cambodian has 312 kilograms of rice to eat per year.” PhnomPenh…

W. Sullivan, US amb. to the Philippines on his recommendations for US policy in SEA: “If Cambodia is invaded or subverted by Vietnam, that will not change our interests. Even if asked, we should refrain from economic or military assistance to an imperiled🇰🇭”

200 Khmer Rouge raided four Thai villages for food & supplies, killing 29, including 11 children. Survivors said the KR had slashed the throats of children. Thailand sealed its border with Cambodia and promised “drastic measures” to repel future raids. https://t.co/yMhll975Z6

Khmer Rouge troops raided a grocery shop in Thailand, killing two and wounding four. In response the provincial governor plans to distribute weapons to villagers and to have them trained by Thai soldiers. otd https://t.co/jvnKATPyJP

“Our resistance group was almost completely wiped out in a well-coordinated ambush by the Khmer Rouge”, tells Khourn Thai @USEmbassyBKK. Fearing the 15.000$ bounty the KR set on his head, Thourn will leave for the US as a refugee; giving up his resistance struggle.

@readersdigest previews the upcoming “Murder of a Gentle Land” by Anthony Paul and John Barron: “The reorganisation of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge resulted in over one million deaths, including entire families slain in assembly-line fashion”.