Let me conclude with a piece of evidence I did not present yesterday. This is a report by a United Nations expert. which seems to me to sum up everything we tried to produce yesterday to indicate that villages of seven provinces had been destroyed by bombing. This is by U.N. expert Georges Chapelier. who conducted during 1970 interviews in depth with some 50 refugees from the Plain of Jars. The results of his findings were published in the fall of 1970 in a study entitled: "Plain of Jars: Social Changes Under Five Years of Pathet Lao Administration." Excerpts from this report follow: All these efforts tended to enhance national consciousness. but perhaps what contributed more than anything else to forge an ingroup feeling were the heavy and recurrent bombings. A brief account of what we consider as the major event in the five years under the Pathet Lao will make it easier to understand the reaction of the people and the further Pathet Lao politics of portage responsibilities and restriction of consumer goods.
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