@DocNish74 @LondonTimes Bonavia contacted the British embassy, which most likely managed to get a visa. (Bonavia and other journalists agreed to suppress the story to get China to cooperate. AFAIK no story was ever filed, so I think the plan worked) https://t.co/x5qeBNazXh

Cambodian student Chem climbs out a bathroom window of the Cambodian embassy in Beijing to avoid being returned forcibly to PhnomPenh. He shows up at @LondonTimes reporter David Bonavia’s (file photo) apartment and threatens to commit suicide if he is not allowed to stay. https://t.co/lmIPmxxedS

And of course many excellent books: “When the War was Over” by @Elizbeckerwrite “The Pol Pot Regime” – Ben Kiernan “Year Zero” – Francois Ponchaud “Brother Nr. 1” – David. P. Chandler Writings of Julio A Jeldres (Sihanouk’s biographer) & many others 8. The blog Cambodia to Kampuchea has tons of interesting documents, photos and articles https://t.co/j6hPXgJCJT 9. @Yale Genocide Studies Program -> biographies and KR telegrams e.g. https://t.co/IvOJxdQFAi 10. DC-Cam -> rare photos, analysis, documents https://t.co/KDSdRXvmLV 5. @UN archives -> for a perspective of the Khmer Rouge on the international stage https://t.co/B4PWLHnBQl 6. Keesing’s Record of World Events -> good contextualisation of the most important events at the time…

In @latimes, Mike Snitowsky sees in Deputy Prime Minister Khieu Samphan a “monk like figure”, who is the “theoretician of the Khmer Rouge”. Snitowsky also tries to explain the Khmer Rouge’s “heavy-handed tactics”: https://t.co/tRbxEaHBU4 7. In the February issue of the Khmer Rouge propaganda magazine Revolutionary Flag, the repeated rhetoric of “great leaps” stands out: https://t.co/ANCJ2AFmnu 6. The KR Standing Committee decides important infrastructure should be deep inside Cambodia and proposes Kampong Chhnang to China as site for a military airport Regarding Vietnamese soldiers in the border area it states: “their general goal is to pick away at our territory” 5. The Khmer Rouge Standing Committee decides – to use…

Over 10,000 members of the Khmer Rouge army hold a rally in PhnomPenh to protest an alleged U.S. air strike and “express their readiness at all times to smash any plots of aggression by U.S. imperialism and its lackeys.”

For clarification. The document in the last tweet is from a Khmer Rouge Office 870 document titled “Advice of 870 no 02-76 about bomb drop of American imperialist into Siem Reap province on 25/2/76” https://t.co/Qglt8x8kV0 4. An accident at an ammunition depot that was exploited for political gain. @KRTribunal documents (unfortunately missing a key segment in the translation) might point to that: 6/6 https://t.co/Kbf35xiuvp 2. that the explosion was caused by a dissident faction, to which the demotion of Khmer Rouge Northern Zone Secretary Koy Thuon (photo, r) soon afterwards points. 3. A deliberate act to get sympathy and foreign aid (https://t.co/Pef1Rb4LJF) 5/6 https://t.co/AzlM11srKb There are quite a few theories:…

Khmer Rouge Deputy Prime Ministers Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary attended a meeting held by Norodom Sihanouk with diplomats from the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Zambia, Sweden, Egypt, Tunisia and Afghanistan in PhnomPenh. Radio PhnomPhenh states that “there is no need to import machines built by foreign countries; the only worthwhile ones are those invented by the peasants”: A small blast furnace starts operation in Battambang, where plowshares are made of shrapnel from American 105-mm shells.

Invited by the Khmer Rouge, ambassadors from Sweden, Palastine (PLO), Cuba, Zambia, Afghanistan, Albania, Egypt, Tunisia and Yugoslavia arrived with their diplomatic delegations in PhnomPenh for a two week tour of Cambodia.

A young Cambodian refugee, slingshot around his neck, eyes visitors at a camp for Khmers, who fled Cambodia when it fell to the Khmer Rouge, in Surin, Thailand. ©AP https://t.co/WSNDPTRihl In a letter to Cambodian Prime Minister Penn Nouth, @amnesty expresses deep concern at reports of executions and urges GRUNK to make enquiries. Amnesty also requests details regarding a clause in the Khmer Rouge constitution which forbids “reactionary religions”.