Mr. President. this weeks news brings graphic reminders of the holocaust which occurredand which is still going onin Indochina since the Communist victory there in 1975. Al Santoli. writing in the New Republic. describes the massacre by Vietnamese armored forces of helpless Cambodian refugees in makeshift camps along the Thai border just 2 months ago. More chilling still. Mr. Santoli provides evidence that the North Vietnamese Communists are inposing in Cambodia now their version of the "Lebensraum" scheme Hitler planned. but did not live long enough to implement in Poland and western Russia. William Branigan. writing in the Washington Post of May 23. describes how Cambodian children in the KhaoIDang refugee camp in Thailand remember the Khmer Rouge. whom many who opposed U.S. involvement in Indochina described as "liberators" when they seized power in 1975. I ask that these articles be printed in the R.coRD. I hope all my colleagues will read them carefully. and to ponder carefully whether those who are being described in some quarters as "liberators" in Central America might not. if we permit them to triumph. turn out to be the Khmer Rouge and the Vietcong of the 1980s.
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