Visiting the refugee camps at the Thai-Cambodian border, Lord Elton says🇹🇭receives $0.25/day from UNHCR for each registered refugee. While (often lethal) incidents at the border occur almost daily, the flow of refugees has almost stopped because: https://t.co/d9W8tnhqe3

“Because money was abolished, the Khmer Rouge now want to buy pumps from Singapore for an equal weight in fish. Cambodia has no international air-traffic control, aircraft maintenance or refuelling capabilities. On Cambodia’s current situation, Lord Elton, says: https://t.co/Qagwf4cPIQ 3. Despite agreeing to improve relations at @UN GA, border clashes between Cambodia and Thailand continue. 4. Most Cambodian refugees departing Thailand, left for France and the US. https://t.co/ZkKGPINlg0 A recap on what happened in Cambodia in October 1977 under the Khmer Rouge: 1. Pol Pot visits North Korea & China (including a trip to the model cooperative of Dazhai), where he discussed military operations against Vietnam. 2. The border war…

The Khmer Rouge Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirms Cambodia’s desire to establish friendly relations with Thailand in a communique, which expressed hope that the Thais would contact the Cambodian embassy in Laos to create conditions to gradually improve relations

Nov, 10, 1977: Brian Eads reports on Pol Pot’s, Ieng Sary’s & Son Sen’s biography. “It is strange that Cambodia exchanged Sihanouk’s erratic & benevolent despotism, for Lon Nol’s incapable nepotism and then emerges with an oligarchy rooted in age-old traditions and school ties” https://t.co/DJE99sMYq1

“From a sister in the Khmer Rouge, I knew my identity had been revealed. I knew myself to be killed,” says Sokhom Theavvy (36) on his escape to Thailand, which he reached after a 36-day march, weighing just 34kg.

In the latest of a series clashes on the border of Thailand and Cambodia, 400 Khmer Rouge soldiers attack O-la Chief village, killing five civilians and burning nine homes as well a school. https://t.co/WtCfV71WXY PhnomPenh Radio recommended to “constantly nurse the seething of hatred and blood rancor against national and class enemies” as well as “smashing and stamping out old views.”

3 People are requested to be send to Duch (S-21) for participating in clandestine meetings, encouraging others to pretend to be sick or to steal. Others to Huy, who headed a satellite of S-21 for farming rice and “re-education”, for being sick too often. https://t.co/DQ0ggkaddA

Khmer Rouge Amb. to Laos on Cambodia’s public health system: 15% of doctors of old regime were executed, the rest sent to reeducation camps. New doctors train in PhnomPenh’s Medical Uni for 18 months. DDT is imported but traditional meds are used in 95% of cases.

Breaking an 18-month long silence on Prince Sihanouk, PhnomPenh radio broadcasts three congratulatory messages attributed to Cambodia’s former chief of state.

The United Kingdom refuses to appoint an ambassador to Cambodia because of the Khmer Rouge’s human rights violations. “Events in🇰🇭are as serious as Stalin’s repression of the kulaks and Hitler’s liquidation of the Jews,” says Jeremy Thorpe of the Liberal Party.