As Thailand routinely sends Laotian refugees back, diplomats fear that if refugees remain in Thailand without increased migration to third countries, the chance of mass repatriation of refugees to Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia, were they face retaliations, will rise. “Our masses of collective workers, peasants, and army struggled to serve Cambodia without receiving any personal benefits such as salaries, rank, prestige, or title. In fact, they have always been interested only in freedom & unity”, says radio PhnomPenh.

After seizing radio transmitters, motorcycles and rifles, Khmer Rouge troops raid set Thai border patrol posts on fire. Thai Foreign Minister Uppaddit struggles to give an explanation to reporters, as he just returned from Cambodia with a deal to end such raids. The Khmer Rouge Commerce committee tallies up its account balance with China (1), the value of shipments going to Hong Kong (2) and the as of yet unpaid merchandise exported to China (3). https://t.co/ukPxllfrCc

The Khmer Rouge withdraw their invitation from January 30th to Beijing-based diplomats to tour Cambodia.

Feb. 9 ,1978: Together with Thai Communist guerrillas, Khmer Rouge troops abduct 300 persons from a village near the Cambodian frontier. Thai Foreign Minister Uppadit said “We are very, very unhappy.” but said they would “not necessarily” be liberated by military means.

3. The Khmer Rouge magazine “Revolutionary Youth” ramps up its rhetoric against Vietnamese, calling them “poisonous”. “the expansionist territory-swallowing Yuon are constantly looking for opportunities to invade and take Cambodia and re-enslave the Kampuchean people”. 2. The ambassadors in China of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Tanzania & Iraq visited Cambodia for 2-weeks. Deng Yingchao’s (widow of China’s Premier Zhou Enlai) also tours Cambodia. A recap on what happened in Cambodia in January 1978 under the Khmer Rouge: 1. Vietnam withdraws its forces to a few strategic positions. Observers say it is more powerful,🇻🇳suffered heavy losses in some of the ongoing some smaller clashes (Photo2: a destroyed🇻🇳command post) https://t.co/kzF5NYRcfY

Feb.5, 1978: Edward Mezvinsky, Chief Delegate of the United States to the @UN Human Rights Committee session says this year the US plans to be “much more vocal and upfront about Uganda, Cambodia and Equatorial Guinea”. Vietnam offers Cambodia a proposal for peace. It calls for a.) a cease-fire & a mutual pullback of 5 km on either side of the border. b.) the negotiation of a new border treaty in Hanoi or Phnom Penh, c.) the establishment of an international supervision apparatus

A Khmer Rouge cadre reports to “Brother Secretary of Reeducation” of various plans by the Widow Concentration Unit, whose husbands Angkar has smashed. To flee, to kill their unit leaders, to poison the farm unit, all proved unsuccessful & were discovered by the KR. Meak Touch, Kampuchean Ambassador to Laos confesses at S-21, that KOY Thuon enrolled him in the CIA & Chhoeun (former secretary North Zone) assigned him to “mobilise exiled Cambodians in Laos into hardcore forces to fight the Khmer Rouge” He implicates 60 others.

Returning from Cambodia, the Thai delegation says the PhnomPenh temple they visited was well kept up, but no monks were seen there, nor in Angkor Wat. We “ate well”, shrimp, fish & sweet desserts. The Thai government forbid to speak of conditions under Khmer Rouge Vietnam and Cambodia are still engaged in small, fierce clashes along their frontier, with no negotiated settlement of the conflict in sight, say Indochina analysts. “Both have sufficient logistical backing to maintain the present low-intensity skirmishing”

Refugess that fled to Vietnam say that the Khmer Rouge allow women in Cambodia to breast-feed their babies only for a month. Afterwards the baby is given to older women and it lives in another community. “When he is weaned, he never sees his parents again.” A report from East Germany says Vietnam “is striving for a solution that would enable the remaining Patriotic Forces of Kampuchea to seize the initiative and wrest power from Pol Pot and his followers” Nuon Chea is seen as “possibly being sympathetic to Vietnam”. The Khmer Rouge launch a big diplomatic offensive aimed at ambassadors in Beijing who wish to visit Cambodia February 11-18.…

Thai Foreign Minister Uppadhit and 17 other Thai officials fly to Cambodia to discuss trade, technical cooperation and the border dispute between the two countries.