Speech #960141979

I might say that at a time when the British Isles had a population of 3 million. there were 14 million Khmers. and there was a Khmer Empire in Southeast Asia in the 13th century. They are a proud and gentle race of people. But they are slowly starving to death and dying by disease day by day. In the poor areas of Thailand. there are presently over 200.000 refugees living in the most miserable conditions imaginable. We saw people lying in fields too weak to move any further. We saw people too weak to make the last 100 or 200 yards to the makeshift hospitals and too weak to go to the area where food was being parceled out.