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កម្ពុជា ឆ្នាំ ១៩៧៨

1978 Chronology Of Cambodia History

Jan. 3, 1978 The Khmer Rouge again refused to negotiate peace with Vietnam until all Vietnamese troops had withdrawn from Cambodian territory. About 60,000 Vietnamese troops were in Cambodia at the time.
Jan. 16, 1978 Vietnam criticizes US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski's remark that Cambodian-Vietnamese fighting is a "proxy war" between the Soviet and China.
Jan. 18, 1978 Madame Deng Yingchao visited Cambodia………. Hanoi radio charges that the Khmer Rouge has shelled all eight Vietnamese provinces along the border since Jan. 9.
Jan. 23, 1978 Phnom Penh is described as a ghost city by envoy from Denmark, Sweden and Finland after they return from a two-weeks visit to Cambodia.
Jan. 25, 1978 Hanoi radio reports that the Khmer Rouge have driven into the southwestern Vietnamese provincial capital of Ha Tien.
Feb. 2, 1978 Following four days of talks, Cambodia and Thailand announce that they will exchange ambassadors in a renewal of diplomatic relations.
Feb. 5, 1978 Hanoi proposed cease-fire and negotiation with Cambodia.
Feb. 8, 1978 Cambodia rejects Vietnamese's truce offer.
Feb. 9, 1978 Hanoi accuses Cambodia of responding to its peace proposal by launching new incursions into Vietnam.
Feb. 21, 1978 Vietnam accuses China of arming the Khmer Rouge and encourage Phnom Penh to refuse negotiation.
March 14, 1978 Khmer Rouge troops, assisted by naval forces, cross into Vietnam and occupy a small strip of land on the Gulf of Siam.
March 7, 1978 Poland registered with UN its objection to the reservation made by the Democratic Kampuchea concerning Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
March 16, 1978 Cambodia calls for negotiations with Vietnam to end their conflict……… Canada registered with UN its objection to the reservation made by the Democratic Kampuchea concerning Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
March 19, 1978 PM Pol Pot reiterates his opposition to Vietnam's alleged plan for an Indochinese federation of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
April 12, 1978 Cambodia reports that it have repulsed a Vietnamese attack into its territory the previous week and has killed 560 of the invaders.
April 19, 1978Former Information Minister Chhang Song charges, in a Washington news conference, that a Holocaust is occurring in Cambodia, claiming that 1 millions Cambodians have been slaughtered and another million appear to have perished from disease and starvation.
April 21, 1978 US Pres. Carter charges that the Phnom Penh govt. is the worst violator of human rights in the world today.
April 22, 1978 First Khmer resistant brigade formed in Vietnam.
April 24, 1978 US. Rep. Zablocki introduces H.Con.Res.573 denouncing the govt. of Cambodia for its disregard of basic human rights.
May 1978 Phnom Penh reached an agreement in May with Singapore to resume economic and trade links after a three-year break.
May 24, 1978 Pol Pot launched a purge of his cadres in the Eastern Zone.
May 24, 1978 US Senator Byrd (W.Va) introduces S.RES.469 concerning the inhuman acts of the govt. of Cambodian against the people of Cambodia.
June 6, 1978 Vietnam proposes a cease-fire in its border conflict with Cambodia.
June 27, 1978 Hanoi radio reports 160 casualties in border fighting with the Khmer Rouge on June 20 and 23. Vietnam also denies a Khmer Rouge claim that it had collaborated with the US CIA to try to overthrow the Phnom Penh govt. in May.
July 3, 1978 Cambodia claims that tens of thousands of Vietnamese have been killed or wounded in fighting between the two countries.
July 15, 1978 Thailand and Cambodia agree in principle to settle their long standing border dispute and to exchange ambassadors.
July 17, 1978 Dep. PM Ieng Sary embarrasses his Thai hosts by publicly assailing Vietnam while he is visiting Thailand. He also denies reports that his govt. carried out large-scale massacres of Cambodia.
July 28, 1978 Dep. PM Ieng Sary tells foreign ministers meeting at the nonaligned nations conference that Cambodia closed its borders and emptied its cities after the Khmer Rouge victory in 1975 to prevent a civil war.
Aug. 1, 1978 US intelligence reports that Vietnam is conducting heavy air strikes in support of its troops fighting inside Cambodia.
Aug. 8, 1978 A new wave of Cambodia refugees are reported moving into Thailand following another govt. purge in Battambang province.
Sept. 7, 1978 US Rep. Solarz introduces H.CON.RES.706.
Sept. 21, 1978 Former pres. Lon Nol says that more than three millions Cambodians have been killed since the Communists seized power in 1975.
Oct. 13, 1978 FM Ieng Sary invites Western observers to visit Cambodia and see for themselves whether the govt. has murdered thousands of its people.
Oct. 18, 1978 Phnom Penh radio reports new fighting between invading Vietnamese forces and Khmer Rouge soldiers in the Parrot's Beak area.
Dec. 2, 1978 The establishment of Kampuchea United Front for National Salvation (KUFNS) was announced by Hanoi. The KUFNS dedicated to overthrow Pol Pot's regime.
Dec. 4, 1978 Hanoi radio broadcasts a KUFNS statement assailing the Khmer Rouge govt. as dictatorial, militarist, and fascist and echoing genocide charges brought by Cambodian refugee.
Dec. 11, 1978 Vietnamese military advance into southern Cambodia reportedly stops about 25 miles from the strategic Mekong river port of Kratie.
Dec. 25, 1978 Invasion of Cambodia. Some 100,000 Vietnamese with 20,000 KUFNS troops, under the direction of Gen. Van Tien Dung, launch an invasion of Cambodia.