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Samphan also may have been referring to the problem of feeding an estimated 1.3 million refugees who were still believed to be crowding the capital. Asked an expert in Bangkok: "How can the 60,000 Khmer Rouge troops handle the 2 million people packed into Phnom-Penh...
Both Long Boret and Sirik Matak were on the old Khmer Rouge list of "seven traitors" slated for death. Four others, including President Lon Nol (see story below), escaped before the capital fell. Another, former Premier In Tarn, waited until it was almost too late, and finally fled across the border into Thailand, with Communist troops firing at him. Also in Thailand are approximately 1,000 other Cambodian refugees; most are expected to stay on or to settle permanently in the U.S. and France...
...only peephole view of life under the Khmer Rouge was at the Thai border opposite Cambodia. While life on the Cambodian side seemed normal at the start of the week-except for the presence of armed Communist soldiers in pajama-like uniforms-by week's end refugees were reporting that the Khmer Rouge had ordered the inhabitants of several towns to evacuate or risk being killed. Dozens of civilians were said to have been killed trying to flee, and other reports told of scattered executions...
Among the Cambodians who fled into Thailand, many were soldiers who brought along their U.S.-made equipment. Khmer Rouge demands that the equipment be returned-including armored personnel carriers and aircraft-led to tension between Thai and Communist border guards. The Thai government sent 1,000 troops to reinforce 4,000 border police in a determined effort to stem the continued inflow of Cambodian refugees...
...week of mourning for those killed in the war. But no solid clues were forthcoming about future plans or policies. About all that filtered through the curtain was a statement by Samphan in his radio address that "we will be neutral and nonaligned." Yet Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge's figurehead leader, said in Peking that within a year or two most of Southeast Asia would be Communist or proCommunist, and that one of the Khmer Rouge's first tasks must be to "remove all pro-free world elements...