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29 November 1976
Nuon Khoeun (1944-1977), a teacher of history, and Tuorn Sok Phallar (c.1941-1977), a government employee are arrested and sent to S-21. https://t.co/Dvsv7aH537 The Khmer Rouge leadership holds its Second National Economic Congress at which it adopts the economic plan for 1977: rice production is to be increased by harvesting “fertile, first-class fields” twice a year to reap between six and seven tonnes of grain per acre.
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27 November 1976
RT @JimLaurie_Asia: in 1994,Dahl apologized for her 1976 remarks. She said “I had a hard time imagining something as shocking could be true…
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24 November 1976
Refugees from Cambodia say radio PhnomPenh is broadcasted into ricefields over loudspeakers.Music & poetry take up about half the six hours of broadcasting daily. The constantly changing repertoire includes children singing about the leadership, but never mentions their names.
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21 November 1976
Swedish Parliamentarian Brigitta Dahl defends Pol Pot and her Socialist party’s aim to provide aid to Cambodia on Swedish radio: “Everyone knew that what was being said about Cambodia were lies and speculation and that it was completely necessary to evacuate PhnomPenh”. https://t.co/f4qoeqoXkW
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20 November 1976
Philip Goodhart writes in a paper published by British Foreign Affairs research Institute, based on interviewing experts on Cambodia: “One trick of the Khmer Rouge is to go to village and ask ‘Who wants to visit Prince Sihanouk?’. Those who show enthusiasm are executed.
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14 November 1976
6. KR Head of State Khieu Samphan accepted the credentials of ambassadors Youmare Sela Lutin of Tanzania, and Sinali Toure of Mali. Both travelled from PhnomPenh to Siem Reap. Toure: “We saw impressive irrigation works. The Cambodian people have achieved unbelievable things” 4. Cambodia opens the Ren Fung company in HongKong for dealings with non-socialist countries, like buying DDT from the US, with payments settled through a Chinese bank. 5. The US is prepared to work to reestablish normal bilateral relations with Cambodia. A recap on what happened in Cambodia in October 1976 under the Khmer Rouge: 1. KR FM Ieng Sary speaks @UN GA, visits Yugoslavia & Romania 2. The…
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9 November 1976
“After 18 months of blood-letting that accompanied the Khmer Rouge bid to purge the old order – during which possibly 1000s died – Cambodia’s new rulers have apparently realised that if their dream of an autarkic & egalitarian society is to be realised, the killing has to stop.” https://t.co/AbOnSftDZR
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7 November 1976
After a month with the resistance to the Khmer Rouge, B. Barney returns to Bangkok disilusioned: “They have no chance. They lack military training, essential equipment and medical supplies. Most of the leadership is poor and corrupt.” Barney now wants to enter a seminary.
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6 November 1976
.@BangkokPostNews reports that Cambodia is still a mystery to the west and that despite recent indications by the Khmer Rouge of seeking wider contacts – FM Ieng Sary visiting Romania and the UN in NY- Cambodia remains a “paranoid situation, one of the strangest on the globe”. https://t.co/LliZVL2lBj As malaria is widespread, the US makes an exemption on humanitarian grounds of its trade embargo and permits the export of 4 tons of DDT worth some $450,000 to Cambodia. Politically, the US wants to show it “looks to the future rather than the past in its relationship with 🇰🇭”
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5 November 1976
Nuon Chea’s 1st period as Acting Prime Minister since 27.9 was de facto interrupted with Pol Pot signing a congratulatory message (as Prime Minister) to CCP chairman Hua Kuo-Feng. However no official notification was made that the interim of Nuon Chea as Prime Minister had ended.