This is why today I am introducing this resolution. It is time we as a body reaffirmed our abhorrence to these weapons. condemned the instigators and showed our support for what is being done to ban them from existence. The first reports from HMong refugees describing yellow rain were scattered and generally ignored or not believed. But. as time passed the reports continued and evidence began to mount. this was true in Laos. then Kampuchea and finally in Afghanistan. Today. there is a preponderance of evidence that chemical and toxin weapons have been used as weapons of terror to drive HMong. Khmer. and Afghans from their homeland. This convincing evidence comes from numerous sources that have been documented and verified. There are too many similarities in reports from refugees in Indochina and Afghanistan to ignore. They come from victims of the attacks as well as eyewitnesses. Doctors treating survivors of attacks thousands of miles apart also report similar aftereffects: hoarse voices. vision impairment. weakness. lung disorders. and skin lesions. The symptoms that are documented in these two different areas of the world are too alike to be coincidences. Refugee workers and journalists. including Sterling Seagrave who wrote the book titled "Yellow Rain" have openly commented or written about the use of chemical weapons. Since 1979. hundreds of physical and biological samples have been collected from Southeast Asia. and since May 1980 from Afghanistan. The physical samples include vegetation. viles of liquid and shell fragments. while the biological samples include skin tissue and body fluids.
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