Lowenstein and Mr. Moose report. however. that they "were told by the air attache that the maps being used by the Embassy were several years old and that the Embassy did not have current photography on proposed target areas which would permit the identification of new or relocated villages." On the basis of such informationor misinformationan Embassy bombing panel then decides upon targets and conveys its decisions to the Seventh Air Force Commander. To escape the devastating effects of American bombing of their villages. refugees have been swarming into Phnom Pent. These refugees report that dozens of villages to the east and southeast of Phnom Penh have been destroyed and as many as half of their inhabitants killed or maimed by recent American bombing raids. International relief officials in charge of refugee camps in the capital estimate that nearly 10.000 people fled from their villages to the camps just since the intensified bombing raids began in early March. Many others have fled into Communistoccupied areas. which cover about 80 percent of the territory of Cambodia. A study mission of Senator KENNEDYS Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees returned from Indochina in early April and reported that at least onethird of the population of Cambodiasome 2 million peoplehave been made refugees over the last 3 years. they crowd by the tens of thousands into shantytowns around Phnom Penh and provincial cities. neglected and ignored both by their own government and by the U.S. Missions in Phnom Penh. To get some idea of what it means for onethird of the people of the little country of Cambodia to be driven out of their homes and villages by aerial bombardment and forced into the refugee centers. one would have to realize that. in terms that we can comprehend in the United States. that would be the equivalent of 75 million Americans driven out of their homes and forced into miserable refugee centers around our great cities. This is what is being accomplished by the costly. incredible. and. I think. stupid aerial bombardment now going on over Cambodia.
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