CHOU Chet, Khmer Rouge secretary of the West zone writes in a 134 page confession at S-21 that “his existence has been of no use to the party”. (1) He also describes situations where he regrets what he said to Pol Pot (2+3). https://t.co/8aIACUIkE9

Malaysia offered to take in 20,000 Cambodian muslim refugees and Vietnam approached us seeking assistance to resettle refugees from Cambodia inside Vietnam or other countries, says an @Refugees representative.

Shell fragments found in Thailand indicate the Khmer Rouge use new Chinese-made equipment for their attacks, says Thai PM Kriangsak. “🇹🇭stopped supporting resistance activity to the KR & only attacks in retaliation.🇹🇭has the military capability to walk to PhnomPenh” The Thai army says that the Khmer Rouge & Thai communists caused 111 incidents occurred along the Cambodian-Thai border over the past 4 months, including ambushes, booby-trapping, mortar & rocket bombardment and the mining of roads. https://t.co/7oWNe6CXYM

RUOS Nhim, Khmer Rouge Secretary of the Northwest Zone reports severe food shortages in Sector 5 to Angkar & that 58 people trying to escape to Thailand were “smashed”. He asks what to do with “Yuons(🇻🇳) with Khmer(🇰🇭) spouses”, which are “worried about their fate” @themattmadden https://t.co/2fBNR1ZflI @masaya_shinoda @johnmalis150 There was a Reuters article about his visit at the time (see photo) and diplomatic cables (on wikileaks) https://t.co/2fBNR1ZflI https://t.co/TivTWmdKBE

The US State Department assesses 🇻🇳-🇰🇭relations: “Although Vietnam’s forces are poised for strong military action against Cambodia, Hanoi will continue to seek a negotiated settlement while covertly preparing Cambodian insurgent forces to subvert the Khmer Rouge” Lee C. Giam concludes his 5-day visit, heading a Singaporean Trade delegation, to Cambodia. Lee worked 4 years in🇰🇭, till 1973. He said he met nobody he knew from 5 years ago. He describes his impression of PhnomPenh (1) & trip to Siem Reap (2): https://t.co/wtNdGtmyBN

Cambodia sends Hanoi a diplomatic note requesting that Vietnam ceases any form of aggression, invasion and annexation and proposes a 7-month cooling-of period after which if there are to border incidents- talks could begin: https://t.co/qbowrv1eg2 The governor of Trat, Thailand, says an active smuggling trade exists in waters separating Thailand and Cambodia. Thai smugglers trade consumer goods for marine products on Cambodia’s Kud Island.

Cambodia suffers “continuing bloodletting” &🇰🇭refugees escaping to Thailand “recall concentration camp survivors of 1945”, says @nytimes. The absence of French speakers among them “lends credence to reports that the Khmer Rouge methodically kill the educated”

RT @CEtcheson: @realtimeKR That speech was one of the key pieces of evidence in convicting Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan of genocide. French @TF1 reports from a camp for Cambodian refugees in Vietnam, interviewing two refugees. Under the self-management principles of Vietnam’s new special development zones, the refugees are expected to cultivate the 500 ha land of the camp. https://t.co/hxUpj9QXF0 “With my own eyes,” says Burstein abt his recent trip to🇰🇭: “I saw a country diametrically opposed to the image conveyed in the US press by those who never visited the new Cambodia. I saw a country where the common people became the masters of their own society..” https://t.co/aPFykdRpFY

H. Kamm asks Cambodian refugees at the Thai detention center at Buriram what they expect of the future: “I don’t care, as long as we get food and some sleep and don’t have to live in Cambodia,” one said. None of the interviewed, knew about the🇰🇭-🇻🇳border war. In reviewing Cambodia’s defence strategy of the past year, Pol Pot reiterates his “One against 30” policy: https://t.co/wdptwDHdy6 “In the slow pace of world reaction to events in Cambodia there is a morbid parallel to the international blindness that first met the news of the camps in Nazi Germany,” writes Leo Cherne in @WSJ.

@ferretfyre Yes exactly. And they have read the refugee accounts & news reports hinting at the horrors… they dismissed them, went to🇰🇭 & still didn’t ask themselves, might these reports be true?; is what I am shown propaganda? At least the kids with AK-47s should have made them pause. Scottish academic Malcom Caldwell (who will be murdered in December a few hours after meeting Pol Pot in Cambodia) dismisses accounts of Khmer Rouge atrocities from refugees in @Guardian “A refugee may give an honest account without it necessarily being accurate”