The dehumanized illusions of "progress" In ending the war also hide the terrible toll of what we are doing to others. A recent Cornell University study on the air war In Indochina tells us that civilian casualties in Laos have totalled 10.000 more in the period 1969 to 1971 than in the earlier period 1965 through 1968. That study estimated that throughout Indochina an average of 130.000 civilians have been killed. wounded. or refugeed each month since 1969. That compares to an estimated 98.000 each month during the period 196568. According to Senator KENNEDYs Subcommittee on Refugees. the number of refugees in Laos since 1969 has grown to twice the total number during the period from 1965 through 1968. Homeless victims of the war in Laos now number more than 10 percent of the population of that country. Senator KENNEDY told us last April that our bombing in Laos is responsible for at least 75 percent of these refugees. If one is a villager in Laos. Cambodia. or South Vietnam. the terror of this supposedly disappearing war is greater than ever before.
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