5. Thailand is said to host 14,000 Cambodians refugee camps 6. Following Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary’s official visit to Burma in March, a Burmese delegation led by Foreign Minister visits PhnomPenh. 4.”Revolutionary Flag” admits difficulties in expanding party membership as cadres “fell away from the movement”. Recruitment should come from locations where no traitors were found and control should shift to poor peasants, “as in general they are still politically clean”. 3. While the Vietnamese Defence Minister for the first time admits to the border conflict with Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge magazine “Revolutionary Flag” calls on the protelatariat class to “attack and smash the territory-swallowing expansionist genocidal Yuon…

50 Khmer Rouge spies, among them women and children, are arrested by Thai border police, and 16 more are killed. The prisoners are detained to be exchanged with prisoners held by the Khmer Rouge, which last week abducted 7 Thai children from villages n Surin. A Khmer Rouge Ministry of Foreign Affairs report states that enemies (“CIA, KGB and Yuon territory-swallowers”), were “basically smashed and swept cleanly away”. 98 percent “cleanliness” has been achieved”, but vigilance is still needed: https://t.co/TtsW4C9u06

A local cadre reports to Khmer Rouge leadership: “After the distribution of rice, yams, tapioca, fish, meat and vegetables by Angkor,living conditions improved in Sector 44. It still is in a shortage of food – there is a small number of rice & banana stealing.”

Youth Hi Di complains: “in the old society I could eat whatever I wanted at any time, like pork with sticky rice cake, but now it is impossible to eat anything.” Khmer Rouge superiors request a thorough interrogation, because “he is an organised string of the CIA”

“I had my differences with Sek Sam, former governor of Battambang. At one point I even urged his removal from office. But his failings are not bigger than Lon Nol’s” – J. Dean, former US amb. to Cambodia on a US Visa for Sek, better decided on humanitarian grounds.