Radio Tirana of communist Albania reports that a tire factory in an industrial area on the outskirts of PnomPenh, Cambodia as well as a textile factory (photo from 1978), a battery plant, a soap factory and several paper mills started operating. ©@Elizbeckerwrite https://t.co/J0mwyGlqNH

Penn Nouth (file photo), powerless prime minister of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, who lives in Beijing, is said to have gone to the Chinese countryside to “improve himself”- as millions of Chinese do- through a period of physical labor. https://t.co/5dqE2SONVL William Goodfellow, founder of @CIPolicy, writes in @nytimes: “The evacuation of Cambodia’s cities was sensationalized as a ‘death march’. It was rather a journey away from certain death by starvation- common in PhnomPenh- as the countryside had a sizable food surplus.”

Thai youth smuggle diesel fuel for trucks under the border bridge (photo from 20.4) into Cambodia, where its sold for 3x. It is so desperately needed that Chai Souvan, the assistant chief of nearby Poipet came to the bridge and asked Thai officials not to interfere. ©@AFP https://t.co/wF83Fcxz7m

A @nytimes editorial calls @UN to break its silence as “The picture begins to emerge that Cambodia resembles a giant prison camp with the urban supporters of the former regime being worked to death on thin gruel and hard labor and with medical care virtually nonexistent.”

Radio Tirana of communist Albania reports that reconstruction efforts in Cambodia are successful and that shipping and car traffic in PhnomPenh have normalized. “Liberation fighters, cadres and solidarity groups gave efforts to increase fishing and rice production a new boost”

@Menon100 There are many good books, how about “When the War Was Over” by Elisabeth Becker and “Brother Number One: A Political Biography Of Pol Pot” by David P. Chandler. Or let me know if you search a book that focuses more narrowly on one particular aspect. RT @CEtcheson: @realtimeKR At trial, Duch said S-21 derived from santibal (a contraction of santisok and norkorbal) and the phone number of…

Please add anything I have missed! Read more on US press coverage on genocide in Cambodia: https://t.co/0kdtzs6cCX 8. Other journalists, like the unnamed author of a @thenation editorial however urged for skepticism and accused the US gov. of seeking to stimulate “racist and ideological fears” by using “alarmist reports from intelligence officials that conveniently could never be proven” 7. Outside Cambodia, international news outlets, including @nytimes, and @washingtonpost report on the severe food shortage and suffering of the Cambodian people under the Khmer Rouge based on refugee accounts. First warnings of genocide emerge. 5. Khmer Rouge Comrade Pin ordered to “smash” seventeen officers of the Lon Nol’s Khmer Republic. 6.…

.@freedomhouse board member Leo Cherne (center) calls the @UN to conduct an investigation into the plight of more than three million Cambodians forced by the Khmer Rouge to flee cities into the countryside. “It is one of the greatest tragedies of modern time,” he declared. https://t.co/FybtBrmcoz As Thai official are becoming increasingly uneasy, the US government closes a refugee camp in Southern Thailand and sends a planeload of Cambodian refugees evacuated from PhnomPenh nearly two months ago, to Camp Pendleton, Calififornia (pictured).©@UofCalifornia https://t.co/rSAjbxD8cZ

Pot answered: “The lines of struggle raised by Chairman Mao are an important strategic issue. We will follow your words in the future. I have read various works of Chairman Mao since I was young, especially the theory on people’s war. Your works have guided our entire party.” “We agree with you! Much of your experience is better than ours. We committed errors of the political routes for ten times in 50 years—some national, some local. Thus China has no qualification to criticize you but have to applaud you.” He then discusses socialism vs. capitalism. Pol Pot (middle) and Ieng Sary (right) met with Mao (left) in Beijing, where Mao…