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“Kill them all” writes Duch, head of S-21, on the biographies of 17 peasants from the 3rd Division, which had been acussed of “association with a dissident tendency” & were arrested because their parents had been. Among them: two 9 year-old boys & two 10yr-old girls

Khmer Rouge EZ secretary So Phim reaches Arei Khsat, on the Mekong opposite PhnomPenh. He sends a bodyguard by boat with a note to Pol Pot. After 1h, two ferries, crammed with marines arrive, and shoot him in the stomach. Surprised, Phim runs for his life. Romanian president Ceaucescu & his wife are greeted by Pol Pot at the PhnomPenh airport (video). Ceaucescu will attend a reception (cr: Pol Pot, right: Khieu Samphan), sign a treaty on friendship and cooperation and visit Angkor Wat. https://t.co/F8x4nAlM9r https://t.co/jVYXJnhFQl

KE Pauk calls all Division 4 commanders to a meeting and has them arrested by his soldiers. Following arrests, various groups (among them Heng Samrin’s) start to flee to the forests, from which they launch guerrilla attacks against Pauk’s & Son Sen’s forces. Despite continuing border incidents, Thai Prime Minister Kriangsak says Thailand would try to maintain good relations with Cambodia to “isolate” the Communist Party of🇹🇭from the Khmer Rouge. Kriangsak: “the lack of vigilance of Thais caused unnecessary casualities” As Piem failed to return from a meeting with Pauk, Khmer Rouge EZ secretary So Phim, suspects a coup by Son Sen is under way. He seeks an audience with…

Ten persons, including two border patrol policemen, died, and 17 others were seriously wounded when Khmer Rouge soldiers ambushed a packed passenger bus on a Thai road running parallel to the Thai-Cambodian border.🇹🇭announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew in response. https://t.co/fkb986CnPp While Ke Pauk’s Central Zone forces purge Khmer Rouge Eastern Zone cadres, Pauk (inferior in rank) summons EZ secretary So Phim to a meeting. After first sending his bodyguards, who fail to return, Phim sends Piem to Pauk (Zone office chief). Pauk sends him to S-21. Heng Samrin’s brother T., commander of the 290th Division, & their brother-in-law, S., Khmer Rouge secretary of Region 21, are arrested & brought to S-21.…