Or was the letter of 21 young IVS volunteers in Laos to President Nixon on March 15. 1971. more accurate? The extensive bombing of civilian areas is particularly vicious... Refugees tell of being forced to live in holes and caves. of having to farm at night. of the systematic destruction by U.S. war planes of the human basis for a society. (This letter is found on pages 170171 of the Senate Refugee hearings. Part ii.) The respected writer for the New Yorker. Robert Shaplen. probably as familiar with the Laotian situation as any of the American reporters who have been longtime residents of Southeast Asia. wrote in April 1970. in Foreign Affairs. about the events of the spring of 1969: The government (of Laos) aided by the wider scope of American bombing. was doing its best to keep the communist supply lines cut and to destroy the social and economic fabric in the Pathet Lao areas.
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