“That refugees claim that > 1 million Cambodians were killed since the Khmerrouge takeover is puzzling”, says J. Oberg, Swedish Ambassador to Thailand on🇸🇪TV. PhnomPenh Radio meanwhile reports he was shown a Thai plane, shut down over Cambodia on Dec. 21. https://t.co/F2SmoXxcXO

Khmer Rouge cadre Ta An complains to the party that Huot would only confess with “hot interrogation” & that at Ang Ta Saom there are no “confidential places to conduct interrogation at ease”. In response Angkar orders to separate Huot from her 1 year-old baby.

Dec, 24, 1977: 🇸🇪Ambassador to Thailand J. Oberg returns from his 48h trip to Cambodia. “I saw no sign of oppression or cruelties against the population”. He said he saw only 4 armed Cambodians during the trip & “nothing that suggests people are working under armed threats”.

When the Khmer Rouge started to perform forced marriages, Ly Linn fled to Vietnam. “Life was better in Saigon than in Cambodia, but I am very afraid of communist regimes,” she tells @nytimes after managing to escape to Thailand in a mosquito infested fishing boat.

After 29 border raids in the last 3 weeks, Thai Prime Minister Kriangsak appeals for negotiations to end the fighting, while on a tour of the frontier to Cambodia. “Thailand will strike back hard if Khmer Rouge keep up its attacks” https://t.co/ZfadHK1wJn The Swedish Ambassador to Thailand Jean Oberg and his wife cross the border into Cambodia for a “private trip” to visit Siem Reap and Angkor Wat. They were invited by the Cambodian Ambassador to Laos, Sam Sun. https://t.co/KogRq3Jhib

The Khmer Rouge shoot down a Thai plane, which was on a strafing mission in Cambodia in retaliation for a series of border raids by the KR, which claimed the life of 173 Thais this year. https://t.co/3Oet9E2Dwa