It is already on the way tc becoming that. In April. a near record of 54.725 tons of bombs were dropped on Cambodia. the equivalent of two and onehalf Hiroshimas. Observers reported that because of the escalated Cambodian bombing. the "devastation of the countryside and the movement of refugees have reached unprecedented levels." Civilians. including children. are being slaughtered. Hospitals and schools are being bombed. reportedly by the Cambodian air force under the direction of American commanders. A report in April by a study mission representing the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees presents a tragic portrait of a tiny nation. caught in a civil war. undergoing agonizing punishment from the skies. with men. women. and children the victims of bombs dropped by American Air Force men who do not even see the havoc they create. Inevitably. of course. some American planes have been shot down and new American prisoners of war are being created. but what happens to them pales in comparison to what is happening to the people of Cambodia. The Senate subcommittee report -points out that in. the 3 years since the United States invaded Cambodiaostensibly to end the war in Vietnamat least onethird of Cambodias population. some 2 million people. have fled the bombing and battle in the countryside. It has become a nation of refugees. Thousands of civilian casualties have been reported. Orphans number some 260.000.
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