July 19, 1978: “Laos has ended its neutrality and pledges full support for Vietnam in its disputes with China and Cambodia”, announces the Laotian radio.

July 18, 1978: @nytimes reports that refugees in Thailand & Vietnam give identical accounts of life Cambodia. Recent arrivals describe a continuing reign of terror despite good crops, a steady consolidation of power by the Khmer Rouge & international outrage.

July 17, 1978: Khmer Rouge FM IENG Sary’s four day visit to Thailand, where he met the king and PM Kriangsak, comes to an end without progress regarding the border conflict or the establishment of diplomatic relations, as no communique has been issued. https://t.co/tOTmUOai1y July 17, 1978: At a press conference in Bangkok, Khmer Rouge FM IENG Sary vehemently denies that millions have been massacred in Cambodia. Selected journalists that “report the truth” would be allowed entry. Breaking diplomatic protocol, he charged Vietnam as a menace to SEA. https://t.co/te0yp9FI0s

July 14, 1978: The 59-page British report to @UN includes refugee accounts, “so numerous, consistent & mutually corroborative, that it is impossible to doubt the their general truth” One says: “millions of Cambodians died as a result of the Khmer Rouge revolution”

July 10, 1978: “We are patiently waiting for them to come to the conference table. Vietnam is now in the middle of reconstruction & has nothing to gain by clashing with these countries,” says Vietnam’s Deputy FM, Phan Hien, referring to🇻🇳’s disputes with Cambodia & China.

July 7, 1978: “The Khmer Rouge are mostly illiterate, know little of politics, nothing of administration. They know only how to kill” (1) “Usually it was the old and sick who were taken [killed] first ” (2) tells Cambodian refugee San Daravong @UPI in the Buri Ram reguee camp. https://t.co/LfT5mdbkyQ

@Muhamma62071531 One official reason is some sort of retaliation that many Chinese merchants left Vietnam in May, because the currency of South Vietnam was put of circulation & currency controls were introduced. More likely: China is allied with Cambodia in the escalating border conflict with🇻🇳 July 5, 1978: Khmer Rouge cadre An singles out CHEN Din as the ringleader of 7 traitors planning to destroy collective properties in Chamkar Sieng so that it would again become private: https://t.co/ltiWtc3hpy

July 3, 1978: “While denouncing the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror is easy, we are unable to suggest ways in which the US & other countries might apply pressure against them. There appears to be no way, short of war, to influence the policies of Pol Pot”, says a @nytimes editorial July 3, 1978: The Chinese Government cuts all economic and technical aid to Vietnam and withdraws all Chinese technicians working at the remaining Chinese aid projects in Vietnam.

July 2, 1978: Associated Press gives historical background to the Cambodia-Vietnam conflict and highlights that Vietnam has the military power to overrun Cambodia if it wanted to https://t.co/GAyk9p3ViD

June 30, 1978: 🇫🇷TF1 interviews a rep. of the Human Rights League (“In Cambodia, human rights are denied”), a former Khmer Rouge & a refugee (“Cambodians are weakened & against the KR. Those who come to liberate them will be welcomed as liberators”) https://t.co/ozqks1s8l4