“Prince Sihanouk is willing to establish diplomatic relations with the US and prepared to forget it supported the Lon Nol Government that had ousted him in a 1970 coup d’état, says Mike Mansfield (file foto), Senate Democratic leader and good friend of Sihanouk. ©@CarlAlbertCtr https://t.co/mANXK56WoY @RNbkk I love the story from your book “The Fall of Phnom Penh”, where you explain how you hid your films in tooth-paste tubes and other hiding places. Do you have some more tales to tell from the last days at the embassy? On behalf of France, who had lost contact with her embassy in PhnomPenh two days ago, .@UN-Secretary General Waldheim sent an appeal…

@RPanh My apologies, it is Kandieng District in Pursat province. .@KRTribunal is not 100% certain that the congress happened (see https://t.co/H2Hcy4zsKJ p.194) but it was widely reported by @TIME (“Long march from PhnomPenh”) https://t.co/po7X0FCKor Read the Khmer Rouge constitution here: https://t.co/v8f5vJmLdG Khieu Samphan chaired the ‘Special National Congress’ in PhnomPenh, where the features of the future constitution (adopted in December 1975) were outlined. Samphan underlined that no foreign military bases would be tolerated in Cambodia onthisday @DocNish74 @GettyImages Sven-Erik Sjöberg, he worked for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.

@DocNish74 @francediplo_EN Hi Nish, Sorry for the late answer. Unfortunately, I did not find any more information on what happend to them. I got the information from the New York Times from that day and they did not follow up. You might find something in old Malaysian or Singaporean newspapers. RT @JimLaurie_Asia: OnThisDay 1975 Cambodia In PhnomPenh The French Embassy is still sheltering nearly 600 people of various nationalit… Lon Nol officials are executed by the Khmer Rouge in Tuol Purchrey in Kandieng province. There, a military fort became one of the major killing fields. Until 1978 up to 10.000 were brought to the site in large trucks, ordered out,…

Cham muslims give thanks to Allah for deliverance in Aranyaprathet, Eastern Thailand after fleeing across the border from Cambodia. Cham muslims were especially targeted under the Khmer Rouge, whose leaders were later found guilty of genocide by @KRTribunal. © Lay @AP_Images https://t.co/OtkgE4if2N A doctor tries to save the life of an injured man under the most primitive conditions inside the French Embassy in PhnomPenh. Food and sanitary conditions at the embassy are becoming more and more precarious. © Sjoberg, @GettyImages https://t.co/8iTt7S18Rv

A paper by James A Tyner, Samuel Henkin, Savina Sirik from Kent State University says that PhnomPenh remained a functioning city, despite the forced mass evacuations. https://t.co/wZvT4FY7U3 The Khmer Rouge declare three days of celebration of their capture of Phnom Penh and a week of mourning for those killed in five years of war. According to radio broadcasts there will be mass ceremonies in PP. onthisday https://t.co/1MqwskOV7J

Being on the Khmer Rouge death list, In Tam (file photo) flees to Thailand. In 1973 he headed the Cambodian gov., while President Lon Nol was in the US for medical treatment. After the Khmer Rouge captured PhnomPenh, Tam attempted to organize a rebellion in northwest Cambodia. https://t.co/bTWOFunPXr Pol Pot and Ieng Sary (Khmer Rouge 3rd in command) arrive in PhnomPenh. Sary (file photo): “I got off the plane from Peking and I saw the town already deserted. Evacuating PP wouldn’t be easy and must be throughly arranged, because there were millions”, he said to Pot in 1974. https://t.co/dmjFzH7Vgn Read this thread for a detailed report on the events of…

Read the full translated speach of Khieu Samphan on the website of the @KRTribunal https://t.co/wbtZstqwRt Khmer Rouge Deputy-PM Khieu Samphan (undated file foto) declares Cambodia’s neutrality and nonalignment in his rambling victory radio message yesterday. He thanked his army for the sacrifices and for “its efforts to drain the population from controlled areas”. https://t.co/vdILzGOjsz Three Cambodian patrol boats (file photo) overloaded with 625 Khmer Navy personnel and their dependents arrive in Malaysia. @francediplo_EN confirmed that while food, water and medicine was getting scarce at its embassy in PhnomPenh, the 26 journalists there were safe. https://t.co/CP01e2S82K

Patrick Clement reports from from Poipet on the Thai-Cambodian border. A Khmer Rouge car arrives. They let the French journalist go but retain the rest of the TV-team, which continues to film illegally. Later it is escorted behind the border.OnThisDay https://t.co/ho574Lk2rk

A young Khmer Rouge arrives at Poipet. Meanwhile in PhnomPenh, French vice-consul Jean Dyrac expells high-ranking Khmer Republic refugees, including Prince Sirik Matak to not have the embassy stormed. As told by Francois Bizot in “The Gate”, they leave on their own accord. ©@AFP https://t.co/SqAcjufGzK @DocNish74 @RPanh @AFPphoto Yes, according to the AFP photo database it is. A lot of these photos are not used anywhere else and as the photographer is unknown it is not possible to be 100% sure. Altough they at times contain some erroneous information, whats depicted fits in the chronology of events.

Young Cambodian civilians help a wounded Khmer Rouge fighter in Battambang province. China conveyed its “warmest congratulations and highest esteem” on their victory to Prince Sihanouk and the new KR leaders, who all were shown lavish treatment in Peking. ©@AFPphoto https://t.co/MKsjr9CIhe A Khmer Rouge soldier arms an US grenade thrower in Battambang province. The most prominent figure in the new KR leadership—apart from Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who says he wants to be merely a figurehead- is Khieu Samphan, who studied law and economics in Paris. © @AFPphoto https://t.co/hBcHe5aGg3 RT @JimLaurie_Asia: OnThisDay Cambodia We must note mood in PhnomPenh on 17-18 April ’75 largely compliant; fearful but most Khmer ready…