Jean Dyrac, the French consul in Phnom Penh at the time of the city’s fall had the task of trying to protect everyone sheltering inside the French embassy. The victorious Khmer Rouge were forcing at gunpoint Phnom Penh’s two million people to leave the city for the countryside. Hundreds of thousands would perish from execution, starvation and disease. In the end, Dyrac had no option but to capitulate to Khmer Rouge demands that all Cambodians sheltering in the embassy leave. Here are extracts of those fateful days from his diary.