Thai Foreign Minister PICHAI Rattakul returns from a 2-day secret visit to Cambodia, where he reached an agreement with Khmer Rouge FM IENG Sary on border demarcation, the establishment of embassies, & discussed the return of Khmer refugees. IENG assurred they would be safe. https://t.co/NeNsTNdt8w

Thai Foreign Minister PICHAI Rattakul travels with seven officials by car to Sisophon, in Battambang Province to meet an eight-man Khmer Rouge delegation. Pichai said “along  the road everything seemed normal, many people were working in the rice fields”.

Journalists @FCCThai discus the situation in Cambodia: Cambodians receive 2 meals/day, one of which is porridge. Sickness and disease are widespread. Refugees are generally unaware of resistance activities to the KR. Targets of executions are no longer the elite but complainers: https://t.co/4YDkjZ9S81

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At a Khmer Rouge Standing Committee meeting, POL Pot discusses the lack of raw materials for medicines, as well as the use of child labour. It is also acknowledged that more than 100,000 people are living in PhnomPenh. https://t.co/C0cZgJ5cJK The Thai journal Prachachat interviews a Khmer Rouge official who said that the Vietnamese revolutionary method was “very slow” and “took a great deal of time to sort out the good from the counterrevolutionaries”. The journal finds a metaphor for the Khmer Rouge method: https://t.co/mJ9SSmLjb6

9. Thailand denies official approval of resistance activities to the Khmer Rouge. 10. @amnesty appealed to Khmer Rouge President Khieu Samphan to make inquiries into allegations of executions, receiving no response. 8. Defence minister Son Sen presents a plan to the Khmer Rouge Standing Committee to build a weapons factory with Chinese military aid and technicians. It is agreed to build the factory near PhnomPenh and pay for it with shiploads of rubber and rice out of Kompong Som. 7. As Kong Horth was able to provide adequate proof from Cambodia’s embassy in Paris that he could enter Cambodia, US embassy provided him with a return flight via Beijing. Although…

@DocNish74 @BangkokPostNews Unfortunately not much, however he continued to fight in the resistance. @CEtcheson You are probably right, as this paper seems to say the same (2) & (3). Peking Review doesn’t name the canal (1) and its information is only interesting, as at the time some fell victim to the Khmer Rouge propaganda. https://t.co/tdxt088jWL https://t.co/MaWa0NIx1W

After speaking to refugees at the Thai border, Joel Henri writes for @AFP that the Khmer Rouge have ended their mass executions but that they now are simply letting people die of hunger and neglect without giving them medical aid.

“Cambodia is 98% under Khmer Rouge control” writes @BangkokPostNews & profiles various resistance groups in Cambodia, which lack coordination and can only carry out limited operations. Some are becoming tourist attractions: “visits to underground movement” are offered for $200. Peking review reports that the Khmer Rouge completed a 63km long, 8 metres broad and 3m deep trunk canal along Highway 5 in Pursat province. The canal was dug by 10,000 people and can irrigate over 90,000 hectares of farmland. .@BangkokPostNews tells the incredible story of Major P. who after he was warned that he was going to be executed walked 200 miles to Thailand. He then went back into Cambodia…

Yves-Guy Berges who interviewed 100s of refugees, writes in France Soir that they reported “collective assassinations, manhunts, massive deportations, disappearances, death to the point of nausea”. In these conditions “1,000,000 victims since 17.4.75 is plausible, if not certain”