These probable costs in terms of human life do not include civilian casualties. which are even more difficult to calculate. The Defense Department has said that it makes no estimates of civilian casualtiesa fact that I cannot comprehend. for it shows such a callous disregard for the human consequences of our policy. The Senate Subcommittee on Refugees estimated that there were 25.000 civilians killed in South Vietnam last year. which would be over 3.000 more than the total number of South Vietnamese soldiers that died. In Laos. more sparsely populated than Vietnam but intensively bombed. the Committee reported that 10.000 have died in the past year and a half. And. untold hundreds of thousands have been wounded and made homeless throughout all of Indochina.
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