Gunnar Bergström writes of his trip to Cambodia for @SvD that from the empty towns, which seem strange, to the progress with irrigation and self-sufficiency in food & clothing, the lasting impression is that🇰🇭’s peasants “have begun creating a tolerable existance” https://t.co/q6t3JjYNNj

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Radio PhnomPenh broadcasts Pol Pot’s speech celebrating the 18th anniversary of the🇰🇭 Communist Party, where he warns of further Vietnamese attacks, but claims that their “effective” forces “engaged in aggression” went from 6 divisons in April to 2 in September. https://t.co/PJv0NmAql9 “The US should convince China that it is in their self-interest to stop support for the Khmer Rouge” says Chhang Son,Lon Nol’s Info Minister in @csmonitor. He criticises that it took 3 years to hear official protest, although evidence of genocide was mounting.

5. The August 1978 issue of Revolutionary Flag refers to the Vietnamese as the “territory-swallowing expansionist genocidal Yuon aggressor enemy” & says “We see clearly that the Kampuchean people under the leadership of our Party are fighting bravely to eradicate the Yuon enemy” 4. Having so far only imported black clothing, the Khmer Rouge start to distribute blue clothing to evacuees from the Eastern Zone, which are viewed as “Khmer bodies with Vietnamese minds“. Refugees reported that people wearing blue scarfs “were killed a lot”. 3. Pol Pot talks to a visiting delegation from the Belgium-Kampuchea and Swedish-Kampuchean Friendship Association. (Photos by🇸🇪Gunar Bergström) https://t.co/vSJt9o8q9F A recap on what happened in…

Interviewing Pol Pot, two Hong Kong journalists ask about “problems in Cambodia reported by the world media” which Pol Pot understands as insecurity, human right violations and that the Khmer Rouge government has only a few members: https://t.co/EK9B8KD9ju

The US denies to support the Khmer Exile Group in challenging the Khmer Rouge credentials at @UN as it is “longstanding policy to not do that on political grounds”. “But in no way does it depreciate from the US concern over human rights situation in Cambodia”.