And in all other categories of war victims. the figures of those disabled. paralyzed or blinded by the war go up and up. These and other statistics tell us something of the human toll that the bloody war in Indochina is taking among the people of the area. They are all documented in reports of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees. which I serve as chairman. as well as in recent reports to the subcommittee prepared by the General Accounting Office. As before the GAO has found that the situation among the civilian population continues to deteriorate. Their reports underscore again the fact that the human tragedy in Vietnam is as old as the war itself. a war that has changed little in its tragic impact upon the civilian population. It is a cruel irony that our policy of helping and assisting in the area of refugee work. which was funded at approximately $6 million last year. has been cut to approximately $5 million this year. and the administration has announced that the whole program is going to be phased out next year. What a cruel irony it is that those humanitarian programs to care for the war victims of South Vietnam are to be phased out. at a time when we have announced a very great escalation of the air war in the north. This must give pause to people. not only in this country. but throughout the world. and cause them to wonder why we are really fighting there.
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