“The US will continue to oppose the efforts of any country to impose their will on Asia by a preponderance of power or blackmail,” says Sec. of State Kissinger in a speech before the Japan Society and hinted at the prospect of US recognition of the Khmer Rouge government. ©@AP https://t.co/0iDqcmnqCJ

Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Sarin Chhak (file photo) meets his Albanian counterpart Enver Hoxha in Tirana. Chhak thanked him for the “support against US imperialism and the Lon Nol government” and for “their complete militant solidarity since the first days of the struggle” https://t.co/L1tXhjtyEr

Radio PhnomPenh, the only source of news from Cambodia since the Communist take‐over nearly two months ago, went off the air today. The Khmer Rouge used the radio station to broadcast regular bulletins. Both its 6 A.M. & 11 A.M. failed to broadast for unknown reasons.onthisday https://t.co/R5srDtm5iH

As the evacuation march was reported almost completed and servere travel restriction between districts were put in place, which are tightly controlled by the Khmer Rouge military, US official believe it will take time till new information comes out of the Cambodian hinterlands. At Prek Kdam every refugee was issued an identity card, with family origin being a key criterion. The refugees reported a series of problems ranging from cholera, lacking drinking water to a shortage of farm tools for the critical cultivation of rice. Refugees from PhnomPenh managed to flee to Thailand by continuously telling all Khmer Rouge soldiers they were “heading north”. Now on the way to the…

Prince Norodom Sihanouk is rumored to visit a dieting clinic in Southern France. Sihanouk’s former French adviser, Charles Meyer, said he might settle down in his villa at nearby Mougins (pictured) and that it was virtually certain that he would never return to Cambodia. ©@AFP https://t.co/dNFooU02Yn

@KhmerUtopia I think you are absolutely right and thank you for the video, which explains the complexities of the term genocide very well. I found Anderson’s use – although technically wrong- interesting because he foreshadows the massive suffering and loss of life that is about to happen.

read Jack Andersons’ full column here: https://t.co/Kmp2z5P0uC Jack Anderson (file foto) asks what has happend to the 3 million Cambodians who were driven out of the cities and for which there is not enough food. He writes (probably one of the first):”It appears that the Khmer Rouge, may be guilty of genocide against their own people.”©@AP https://t.co/VJPCTleW90 “If a job related to supplying acrylic court surfaces doesn’t work out for the 55 year-old Mr. Cheng, “we’ll try something else.” But Mrs. Humphries said, “We can hardly put a President behind a shovel.” 2/2 https://t.co/dEw3NjPaAZ Cheng Heng (file photo), briefly President of Cambodia in 1970, arrives in Milwaukee. “I was not…

.@cambodiadaily has a good feature on what it was like to cover the Cambodian Civil war: https://t.co/L8D3cNuyuq There were also Sven-Erik Sjöberg, Al Rockoff, @nytimes‘ Dith Pran and Sydney Schanberg, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Cambodia coverage. And there were many others whose reporting helped us to understand an important period in history. For @AP: Jess Tan, Lay, Khuong, Veasna and Neal Ulevich as well as the Cambodian journalists Tea Kim Heang and Chor Yuthy who both were killed by the Khmer Rouge. For @AFP: Francoise Demulder, Claude Juvenal, Jean Jacques Cazaux, Marc Caruhel ©@RNbkk https://t.co/tl5IsFTzJY Elisabeth Becker(@Elizbeckerwrite), who worked for @washingtonpost and published the excellent “WHEN THE…

Kong Lach and most of his colleagues were later executed by the Khmer Rouge in at Phnum Chunchang (..) in Svay Sisophon (now called Banteay Mean Chey) – see https://t.co/SQO7iQ0tzP 82 officers of the Khmer Republic Air Force return voluntarily to Cambodia after a 6 weeks exile in Thailand. “We’re not afraid to go back to be ruled by the Khmer Rouge, even if we are forced to work in the jungles” said Kong Lach (r, file photo) who had left his family behind https://t.co/5vSvcIjM3t

US President Ford (r) toasts with the French President (l) and the King of Belgium at a @NATO summit.”Recent events in Indochina resulted in enormous human suffering in🇰🇭and🇻🇳and led some to question our strength and reliability. I believe that our strength speaks for itself.” https://t.co/WfIMZEVl2w