The Khmer Rouge complete the nationalization of the mostly French-owned rubber plantations, like the pictured Chup plantation, one of Cambodia’s oldest. Radio PhnomPenh denied that Cambodians suffer hunger & said the KR want to increase agricultural production to export rice. https://t.co/Fax1VnRgbx

Vietnam recaptures the Thổ Chu Islands (bottom of map) which the Khmer Rouge invaded on May 10. The maritime borders were defined by the Brevié line, arbitrarily drawn at 140 degrees toward the Gulf of Thailand in 1939. It let to many conflicts between Cambodia and Vietnam. https://t.co/QFPgVbsBwf

50 years ago, today (1925), Pol Pot (file photo) was born to a prosperous farmer. To achieve his vision of an agrarian socialist society Khmer Rouge’s Brother Nr. 1 forcibly relocated the urban population to the countryside to work on collective farms. ©@picturealliance https://t.co/SN1C5WFmKh

Khmer Rouge leaders of every district, region, and zone met at the Technical University of PhnomPenh. Pol Pot outlined principles for “reordering Cambodian society” and stressed that he wants to evacuate Vietnamese people out of Cambodia” © @GettyImages https://t.co/0pm7Dzaa2A

US congressmen complain they received too little consultation of the SS Mayaguez operation under the War Powers Resolution. German magazine “Stern” alleges the US went to such great lengths to recapture the Khmer Rouge held ship, because it carried top‐secret intelligence data. https://t.co/5K2rXzXLWu

After the Fall of PhnomPenh on 17.4, a last resistance of former gov. soldiers continued to hold out at Preah Vihear temple. After several unsuccessful attempts, the Khmer Rouge succeded to capture the temple by shelling the cliff, scaling it and routing the defenders https://t.co/WIO3mQz6H2

.@USMC Major Porter (l) and Captain Wood raise the American flag aboard the SS Mayaguez in Manila. U.S. air attacks had destroyed a large part of the Khmer Rouge Navy and Air Force and weakend them for the ongoing conflict with Vietnam over disputed islands. © @AP_Images https://t.co/BblatZSwuc

.@USMC press conference on the Koh Tang rescue operation. Journalists questioned why the island was attacked, when evidence suggested that the SS Mayaguez crew was taken to the mainland and why an Khmer Rouge airfield and oil refinery were bombed even after its release. © @AP https://t.co/u67tvsjNTSYour browser does not support the video tag. .@USMC press conference on the Koh Tang rescue operation. Journalists questioned why the island was attacked, when evidence suggested that the SS Mayaguez crew was taken to the mainland and why an Khmer Rouge airfield and oil refinery were bombed even after its release. © @AP https://t.co/ykEuMaCqVTYour browser does not support the video tag.