Mr. Chairman. all available evidence suggests that for the Afghan population the situation is quite grim. Consider these figures: The Soviet invasion in 1979 has resulted in 3 to 4 million refugeesequal to 50 to 60 million Amerlcans. were we the victims of such a holocaustand perhaps 750.000 to 1 million deadabout 10 to 20 million Americans200 times the American dead we suffered in Vietnam. Far from meeting crippling social. political and military complications in their Vietnam. the Soviets. although still not victorious after 5 years of fighting. are steadily draining Afghanistan of its population and preparing to add the countrya Texassized chunk of Southwest Asia tilted toward the Persian Gulfto their empire. As one newspaper monitoring the Afghan war put it. "if guerrillas move among the population. in Maos words like fish in the water. then the Soviet responsein Afghanistanis to boil the ocean." In their conquest of Afghanistan. the Soviets are crushing the Afghan people in three ways: Driving them from their homes through indiscriminate or highlevel carpet bombings. the intentional destruction of certain villages. and starving them into neighboring countries. killing them in battleand in the most brutal and indescribable means.
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