Pilger was quite possibly completely right about the SAS/KR connection.

The book "Getting Away with Genocide: Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal" (Pluto Press, 2004)
by Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis has this on page 68:

The British SAS provided training to CGDK forces in military camps in Thailand and Malaysia. The UK government has always denied
that they ever trained Khmer Rouge members of the CGDK. Prior to 1989, UK defence and foreign affairs had denied with equal
vehemence any suggestion of SAS deployment at all. The then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, wrote to Neil Kinnock [the then
Leader of the Opposition] "I confirm that there is no British government involvement of any kind in training, equipping or
co-operating with Khmer Roue forces or those allied to them."

On 25 June 1991, after two years of denial, the [UK] government finally admitted that the SAS had been secretly training the
'resistance' since 1985. Rae McGrath, an expert on defusing landmines for MAG (Mines Advisory Group), wrote a report for Asiawatch
that detailed how the SAS had taught "the use of improvised explosive devices, booby traps and the manufacture and use of
time-delay devices." He also wrote in the Guardian newspaper that "the SAS training was a criminally irresponsible and
cynical policy."
Rae McGrath, quoted by Paul Jefferson in "Landmines. damned lies and statistics" Guardian, 9 September 1997

All this is now ancient history so far as most Cambodians are concerned, but it is good to see the record set straight.

This will interest some readers:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-thatch ... ot/5330873

Have any of the SAS trainers spilled the beans about what they were doing in Thailand and/or Malaysia
three decades ago?