.@BangkokPostNews reports that many fishing trawlers operating from Thailand’s eastern provinces have been smuggling rice, petrol, salt and sugar to Cambodia, where the wares are exchanged for dried fish.

KOY Thuon, 9th in the Khmer Rouge hierarchy, is executed at S-21. Interrogated for months, his confessions run 100s of pages. KR Defence Minister SON Sen said only Koy’s 3rd confession “reflects the truth” and that his 4th “had implicated people all over the place” https://t.co/sXwdruazna

Patrick Wall,🇬🇧MP: I took up genocide in Cambodia in questions in the House of Commons. The Government always evaded a direct reply. These appalling double standards: the Gov.’s concern over Rhodesia & their lack of interest in🇰🇭have to be seen to be believed. https://t.co/7jFGtsedv5

S-21 detainee Touch Heng asserts his innocence in a letter to Khmer Rouge Primer Minister Nuon Chea, Pol Pot and Sao Phim, which he considers the “perceptive and fair Angkar of the Party.”

Ending his visit to Burma, Khmer Rouge FM IENG Sary says that Cambodia has no intention to ever join any regional alliance, or association but would instead promote bilateral relations with neighbours. Cambodia is to be independent, neutral and non-aligned. The Khmer Rouge decline a request of the US for a delegation to pay an official visit to Cambodia or meet a Khmer Rouge representative “at any place in Southeast Asia.”

Khmer Rouge forces kill a Thai policeman and wound 7 in an ambush on a convoy at the🇹🇭-🇰🇭border. Meanwhile 22 North Korean guerrilla warfare instructors, along with 82 KR troops, who received training in NorthKorea, were sent to the border, says to Korean media. https://t.co/UeWZ9qlzp9

US President Jimmy Carter (right) announces the lifting of the travel ban on Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia, in the executive office building in Washington, D.C. © AP https://t.co/Ye7rXLT8zl 5. “It is striking that none of Cambodia’s current leaders come from the working class: most were teachers. Considering the prestige teachers have in traditional🇰🇭society lets us better understand the present radicalism”, wrote F. Ponchaud in @lemondefr. https://t.co/9Lk9cbd4ub 4. Said to be the head of the plot to overthrow POL Pot, Oeun, Commander of Division 310, was brought to S-21. In his confession, Oeun regretted not having been given advance knowledge of his arrest in order to prove his loyalty…

Dep.SecState W. Christopher (p. 1993) testifies on human rights: “Our info on Cambodia is consistent with that of press reports. Evidence from refugees suggests a substantial loss of life since the Khmer Rouge victory & absence of freedom + respect for individuals” https://t.co/D9TNMCvxTX

Despite experiencing Khmer Rouge border raids first hand while working at a refugee camp at the Thai-Cambodian border, Reverant Ashe’s request to the British Ambassador to @UN to raise reports of atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge at @UN gets turned down: https://t.co/KZijKYrbQS

@amnesty writes a letter to Khmer Rouge Head of State Khieu Samphan to get permission to send a delegation to Cambodia to investigate the fate of the 26 refugees that Thai authorities have handed over to Cambodia last November. https://t.co/2uaLaXgvrw