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1975 (Jan 7) Airmail envelope to German Red Cross at Bonn from Red Cross Delegation at Phnom Penh bearing 1974 scarce 4th Anniversary Death of Samdech Chuon-Nath Surcharged 50r on 3r (SG 392) tied Phnom Penh cds & with boxed German Red Cross (11 Jan) arrival hand stamp …………Cambodia was in chaos due to the civil war against Pro Communist rebels assisted by North Vietnamese & Viet Cong forces & by 1 Jan 75 Phnom Penh had been beseiged by communist forces who made a strong offensive against the city & on the 4th Lon Nol was overthrown…On the 12 April concluding that all was lost the US evacuated 276 personell by helicopter from the US Embassy and so began the terror of Pol Pot who devastated the country and killed 2 million of the population during his reign of terror and it was not until Nov 1977 that Vietnamese forces invaded to kerb the atrocities lead by Pol Pot….mail sent during all this period is not easily found