French journalist Patrick de Beer talks about the Fall of Phnom Penh. The 2nd convoy with foreigners from 🇫🇷 embassy in PhomPenh arrived at the Thai border. The Khmer Rouge checkpoint was so overwhelmed that most stowaways were able to slip through. https://t.co/1tpbSdReD2 The Khmer Rouge said in a radio broadcast today that the reconstruction at the port of Sihanoukville (photo from 1979) had begun and that intensive efforts were under way to rebuild factories which the KR said Lon Nol had destroyed because he knew he could not win the war. https://t.co/BJCd7Pm8Qa The leader of a British medical team who just returned from Cambodia tells @AP on 8 May…

While diplomats wait at Thai border for the 2nd convoy to arrive with evacuees, Francois Bizot describes today’s journey from Kampong Chhnang to Battambang. They picked up numerous Pakistanis, Laotians, Indians and passed many destroyed bridges, collapsed dikes and burnt pagodas. https://t.co/t00cIBJ6K1

.@AP has filmed the arrival to Paris of the French refugees from the Embassy of France in PhnomPenh, Cambodia. https://t.co/7BEfRmY5hi Arrival in Paris of the French that had found refuge at the embassy of France in PhnomPenh after the the Khmer Rouge won the Cambodian civil war by capturing the capital on 17 April 1975. © Jarnoux, @GettyImages https://t.co/UJ3SE2ulKb Cambodian soldiers dressed in civilian clothes after having been demobilized by Thai authorities. They had fled from the Khmer Rouge to Aranyaprathet, Thailand. onthisday © @GettyImages https://t.co/8rp6MBJzq8 read more about Khmer Rouge Colonel Vichai on @Yale’s Genocide Study Program https://t.co/wZa4PucoIf Khmer Rouge Colonel Vichai (r) poses with his wife and his…

Bizot (foto) writes in “the Gate”, that Nhem, the Khmer Rouge commander responsible for the 🇫🇷 embassy said that a baby had died of dyhadrationon on the 1st convoy. As there was a pregnant woman, Bizot convinced him to add a Range Rover, converted to an ambulance, to the 2nd. https://t.co/miY78Se8yz

RT @JimLaurie_Asia: Vietnam Cambodia onthisday We did not know it in Saigon 45 yrs ago, but new Khmer Rouge regime launched raid on Phu…

The 610 evacuees of the French Embassy in PhnomPenh finally arrive in a convoy of trucks at the Thai border. They were physically well after their 4 day journey, but said little about their experience as >100 others have not yet crossed into Thailand. https://t.co/GluZDIUKee From l to r, Colonel Roubert, the French government special envoyee Marc Bonnefous and the French ambassador in Bangkok Jean-Louis Toffin at the Cambodia-Thailand border to wait for the evacuees of the french embassy in PhnomPenh. © @GettyImages https://t.co/FQ8fRivaPj Gesturing Khmer Rouge talks with Thais and French about opening the border at Aranyaprathet, Thailand © Gary Mangkorn, @AP_Images https://t.co/dky7G0FMSR

The French government gets concerned and asks @UN Secretary-General Waldheim for help, as the evacuees from her embassy in PhnomPenh still haven’t reached the Thai border. Lack of gasoline and washed or bombed out bridges had been given as excueses. https://t.co/LM0J9O4dfa To better the chances of successful peace negotiations with the Khmer Rouge, Lon Nol had left Cambodia on 1. April for Honolulu, where he just bought a four bedroom house. To leave, Lon Nol was promised $1-million by his old cabinet, which he denies having received.©@AP_Images https://t.co/goRVytHUbr

People rest at the French Embassy in PhnomPenh. Meanwhile, they are eagerly awaited by diplomats in Aranyaprathet, Thailand. The Khmer Rouge said they would turn over the evacuees only to corresponding accredited diplomats (🇫🇷🇺🇸🇮🇳🇯🇵🇸🇪🇹🇭🇹🇭🇩🇪🇧🇪🇷🇺) © Claude Juvenal, @GettyImages https://t.co/AqXQzZLTB5 Khieu Samphan sends condolences to Sihanouk on the death of his mother, Queen Sisowath Kossamak (file foto). She died 3 days ago in Peking. Sihanouk who repeatedly delayed his return to Cambodia, asked the Khmer Rouge to prepare an air strip at Siem Reap to burry her ashes there https://t.co/4yOV80Oh4Z

The Vietnam war ends with the Fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese. South Vietnam’s mission to the @UN closes as did Cambodia’s yesterday. The Khmer Rouge said they automatically take over the seat, but haven’t officially informed the UN. ©Yves Billy, @AP_Images https://t.co/I72X2BrQy1

Lon Nol soldiers request political asylum in a letter to @POTUSPresident “We are now, by force of circumstance, refugees at U Tapao, Thailand, preferring liberty to Communist domination. We refused to leave when the occasion was favorable, preferring to fight till the end” https://t.co/GSpH8x5Nsi @BolorinosHugo @CarlAlbertCtr On April 28, 1975. Everything posted on this account happened on this day but 45 years ago. @MunsterSir @GettyImages I don’t know how you get the idea that I endorse anything the Khmer Rouge did. I do think it it is important to know how the KR rose to power and what they did. This account tries to tell that day by day in…