The children. whose stomachs distend as if carrying a great weight. cannot be relegated as mere footnotes to a shocking and disgraceful chapter in the annals of man. We canot erase from our minds the emptin s of hunger that bloats their bellies. which their emaciated sticklike frames cannot carry. or the sight of women. walking skeletons themselves who embrace the skeletons of their children. Thousands of others who have collapsed along the refugee route from Cambodia to Thailand mark the road like grisly human milestones. Not even the thousands of miles walked by all these refugees together can measure their suffering or the immensity of the crime that will rest with the world if more are permitted to die. If we do not act. Kampuchea will take its place beside the names of Auschwitz.
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