Cambodias childcare needs are also enormous. In mid1974. the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh estimated that there were 1.200.000 refugees in Cambodia. and at least half of them were thought to be children. There can be little doubt that the figure has increased significantly since then. the Senate Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees has estimated that there were 3.3 million refugees at the end of 1974. The majority of Cambodias refugees are concentrated in and around Phnom Penh. Like Vietnam. thousands of Cambodias refugee children end up either abandoned or as war casualties. But there is a new element to their suffering: starvation. It is now apparent that several thousand of Phnom Penhs children are beginning to sicken and die for lack of food.
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