@DocNish74 “He is highly critical of America’s violation of Cambodian neutrality by armed incursions from neighboring Vietnam and a secret bombing campaign in the early 1970s which killed thousands of civilians and radicalized, he believes, the Khmer Rouge.” https://t.co/h98qcz1JK5

As he leaves office, US Sec. of State Kissinger thanks ambassador John G. Dean: “You have served with honour and integrity and I will especially remember the dignity with which you conducted yourself during the difficult days of our withdrawal from Cambodia”

Jan. 17, 1977:@USEmbassyBKK suggests using @NASA_Landsat imagery to identify rice fields in Cambodia. Satellite data could be compared to rice cultivation information from refugee reports and enable year to year comparisons.

On the occasion of the 9th anniversary of the RAK (airforce), Khmer Rouge Acting Prime Minister NUON Chea warns that outside “imperialist enemies”, and internal “class enemies” wanted to take back Cambodia and “make our people slaves again”.

DUCH,Head of S-21, processes the confession of HENG Chhan, a worker at the Khmer Rouge Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He “stirred up agitation” by asking questions like: “When will Soviet, another socialist country in Eastern Europe set up an embassy in PhnomPenh? https://t.co/5E9g2CFPOX

A Thai policeman is treated in hospital after a mine blew off his leg. Khmer Rouge soldiers had launched incursions into Thai territory to steal food and planted mines on their retreat to Cambodia. A similar incident claimed the lives of 2 Thai farmers last week. https://t.co/WFYAtxh3Kk

5. In a speech, Pol Pot complains that “new people” keep fleeing to Vietnam & Thailand. “In 1976, we expelled 3 major spy networks”, but warns Pol Pot, “the danger is not over”, as he had identified “a sickness”: “We search for the microbes within the Party without success”. 4. @CIA writes a research study on Cambodia: -Khmer Rouge = “most extreme of the world’s totalitarian regimes” -🇰🇭’s political system “uniquely” vague – disease and the regime’s systematic eliminations of all connected to previous regimes possibly killed > 10% of the population https://t.co/NcmT8DVnfC A recap on what happened in Cambodia in December 1976 under the Khmer Rouge: 1. Border incidents…

Kjellen,🇸🇪amb. to Vietnam says the government refuses to let Cambodian refugees go to the West, as it fears they would initiate anti-Khmer Rouge activities. “Nor wants it to return refugees to Cambodia, where they would face death, bc of fear of western reaction”.

As a villager died after stepping on a mine, the Thai border village of Ban Pa Rai has been deserted. Khmer Rouge soldiers fired grenades and shots at Thai villagers in several other border incidents. Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary holds a meeting in PhnomPenh with a visiting Cuban delegation headed by Interior Minister Sergio del Valle. https://t.co/p9HRMxgpdT

DUCH,Head of S-21, sends the confession of Hak Seang Lay, a former student in the Soviet Union, of being a KGB spy to his superior, Son Sen. While Duch sees a “progression”, Son says “He hasn’t confessed all things. He still implicates others for partial amnesty”. A. Lewis writes in @nytimes: “refugees repeatedly paint the same picture of Cambodia: of a crushed society living under conditions of terrifying brutality.” & that “American policy and American bombs played a large part in bringing🇰🇭to its present pathetic state”.