June 17, 1977: Khmer Rouge soldiers report several incidents of Vietnamese soldiers entering Cambodia in Svay Rieng province. They also find leaflets written in both Vietnamese and Cambodian calling for peace: https://t.co/rAWyPgIMAf

June 15, 1977: Khmer Rouge Comrade Vy sends a telegram to NUON Chea, IENG Sary and SON Sen: “We captured 209 Vietnamese soldiers [most are ethnic Jarai] in Sector 107”. He asks for a “high-level decision”. At least 100 of them will be executed at Au Kanseng Security Centre.

June 14, 1977: Three men are executed at Prachin Buri Prison in Thailand. They were judged guilty on leading Khmer Rouge troops to attack three Thai border villages in January, where 30 villagers were massacred. They were also found guilty of smuggling weapons to Cambodia. https://t.co/eshMazbAg9

June 13, 1977: After learning from a local Khmer Rouge cadre that “ten new people from Phnom Penh” had planed flee to Thailand, the KR district secretary proposes that they should be “harshly and thoroughly interrogated to find their network”.

June 12, 1977: Thai border police finds the bodies of more than 50 Cambodians and skulls, mounted on sticks on the Thai-Cambodian border. A refugee said the victims where slain by the Khmer Rouge as a warning to others to not flee Cambodia. June 12,1977: The “Leap Dal” oil tanker carrying 249 refugees from Cambodia,🇰🇭&🇻🇳still lies looking for a port in Malaysian waters. Thich Nhat Hanh, a well‐known leader of the antiwar forces in Vietnamese Buddhism, chartered it to dramatise the plight of Indochinese refugees: https://t.co/lxIhS9FTgA June 12, 1977: In his “self-criticism”, NHEP Yan describes a plot of his bosses in Hospital 22 “to produce insufficient medicine & oppose Khmer…

4.Six former crew members, of the Mayaguez, which was seized by the Khmer Rouge in 1975, reach a $258,000 settlement 5. Border clashes between Cambodia and Vietnam 3d.On education Khmer Rouge FM IENG Sary said five-year-old children are enrolled in elementary schools, which are located directly in the cooperatives or the factories, “because the students study two or three hours a day and at the same time gain experience in manual labor”. 3c. On forced labor allegations IENG Sary said “how are people supposed to work if they are forced? We have achieved the good results simply because people see the need for work and because the revolutionary leaders and…

June 10th, 1977: Khmer Rouge Head of State Khieu Samphan receives the credentials of the incoming Yugoslav ambassador Mihailo Lompar (file) at the State Palace in PhnomPenh. https://t.co/706OzK3Nsu June 10, 1977: At S-21 the Khmer Rouge execute 198 prisoners from military divisions. https://t.co/DaJWwpvBS5

June 6th, 1977: Reviewing media reports, Noam Chomsky criticises in @thenation that most American media “emphasises alleged Khmer Rouge atrocities and downplays the role of the U.S. in the suffering of Cambodia.” https://t.co/AlpJOypG0b https://t.co/Yh37kpcAJs

May 30th, 1977: @Newsweek reports on Cambodia, a “strange country”, where fearful doctors hide their education, “so cholera is treated with coconut milk.” an where the “Khmer Rouge’s efforts to achieve economic self-reliance come at a cost of extreme physical hardship” https://t.co/1asYMO9nPT

May 29,1977: In internal communications the Khmer Rouge admit that the people’s living standard in the Northwest Zone is “at a shortage”, as “most people eat thin rice gruel” and people “lack clothes”. But “important shelters were built – no people are without lodging anymore”.