Marking national day, Vietnam’s Prime Minister criticises China & the Khmer Rouge: “The reactionary forces among Peking’s ruling circles are using the Pol Pot – Ieng Sary counter-revolutionary clique as shock troops to start a war to inflict big losses on🇻🇳” https://t.co/fqdyf2baoo

“As your virulent appeals for war against Cambodia prove, you haven’t forgotten the genocide perpetrated during 5-year war by U.S. imperialists, who massacred & crippled a million🇰🇭”-the Khmer Rouge respond to US Senator McGovern’s call for a military intervention

Still in Cambodia, Jan Myrdal compares his experience to his 1967 trip and writes an enthusiastic report: He praises the KhmeRouge’s decision to evacuate cities, that everybody is working, has food & clothes & that🇰🇭’s rice surplus is used to industrialise https://t.co/zu1BhB5aG5 In Thailand, Tuay Mien, is jailed as protection from other Cambodian refugees. Tuay, a Khmer Rouge cadre, led a major cooperative in Battambang province, in a cruel & arbitrary manner. That Tuay had to flee underscores the KR’s growing paranoia, writes FEER.

Jan Myrdal interviews Pol Pot for Swedish TV. Asked of Cambodia’s main achievements of the past 3 1/2 years, Pol Pot says that all interferences and coup attempts were fended off: https://t.co/fqp7DGJHDv

“For the past 3 years in beautiful, ancient Cambodia, a band of murderous thugs has been systematically killing their fellow citizens. Two million are said to have been killed. But the world turns its face, stills its voice & dulls its conscience”-US Sen. McGowern