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During November 1977, Thailand, a refuge for many thousands of people fleeing from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, decided to close the Cambodia-Thai border. (For fuller information about the refugee situation see reportlumilable from Lord Elton.
Evidence for information reported above
as already noted, and for obvious reasons, a complete picture of events in Cambodia since „pril 1975, cannot be known.
Most of the evidence available to outside observers is obtained from refugees.
Father Ponchaud, who met large numbers of refugees, has commented that while their evidence is prone to exaggeration, "the convergence of various independent testimonies, collected in the refugees' mother tongue soon after their passage of the frontier, in places as far apart as Vietnam and Thailand, and relating to widely separated regions in Cambodia, leads one to a fair degree of certainty on many points".
Father Ponchaud also monitored Fhnom Penh Radio daily from 9th September - 12th November, 1975.
Information given above is taken largely from Father Ponchaud's reports, or from other sources quoted by him.
19th December, 1977
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