“The new Government, which via Vietnam circulated photographs of conquering soldiers, has shown no pictures of normal life returning to towns, no children in schools, no monks in pagodas, no crowds showering flowers on their liberators”, mourns H. Klamm in @nytimes

@UN’s Human Rights Commission continues to monitor the situation in Cambodia, despite a change in political leadership. The US said it would veto proposals to send observer missions to🇰🇭, as it “would further the appearance of legitimacy of the Heng Samrin regime.” Khmer Rouge ambassador Thiounn Prasith states Vietnam’s losses inflicted by the Khmer Rouge from Feburary 27 to March 2: – more than 1,500 soldiers & 5 Soviet advisers killed; – 14 soldiers captured; – 2 tanks, 1 warship, 2 guns and 12 military vehicles destroyed https://t.co/LkbzZwUqVs

To avoid the impression that condemning Vietnam’s attack on Cambodia signifies sympathy or support for Pol Pot, US Secretary of State Vance advises his staff to not accept meetings with any Khmer Rouge representatives.

The Khmer Rouge claim in a note to @UN that Cambodia’s new leader Heng Samrin, “who was installed by Vietnam at temporarily occupied PhnomPenh” that Samrin is virtually unknown in the country and that he was a former cattle thief named Weuk at the🇻🇳-🇰🇭border. https://t.co/xBg55963X2

At the request of the US, the @UN SC discusses “The situation in Southeast Asia & its implications for peace & security” The US wants a withdrawal of foreign forces; the Soviet Union seeks an arms embargo for🇨🇳;China stresses the limited scale of its counterattack: https://t.co/szN5Y59drm

As Cambodia’s lacks its own supplies, Vietnam has to send rice for its troops, further aggravating its prospective shortage of 3 to 4 million tons of rice this year. Vietnam also struggles to set up an effective civil administration, reports @nytimes.

Cambodian refugees return to Prey Veng on foot down Highway 1. The new government in Cambodia encourages people to return to their farms & villages from which the Khmer Rouge had expelled them. The film also shows mass graves. https://t.co/agqbNXbJZc Ha Van Lau, Vietnam’s @UN ambassador explains with maps, that Vietnam has been invaded by the Chinese on 26 points. He says Vietnamese troops are inflicting heavy casualties. Reports that Chinese forces are withdrawing are false, says Lau. https://t.co/4TfvLDMBSo

Seven Thai reporters venture into Cambodia to secure an interview with a high-ranking Khmer Rouge commander about the war. Waving a white flag, the reporters called out to a group of 10 Pol Pot soldiers a good distance away but the soldiers open fire: https://t.co/fDLiiFbQW5 Vietnam and Cambodia sign a 25-year “Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation”, similar to the one Vietnam signed with Laos in 1976 and which legalizes the presence of Vietnamese troops (currently 16 divisions) in Cambodia. https://t.co/utvLlw0Hwb Vietnam urges China to stop its “war of aggression”, the Khmer Rouge’s @UN ambassador demands a discussion of Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia at the SC; the Soviet Union says…