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Ben Kiernan is A.Whitney Griswold Professor of History and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, and author of The Pol Pot Regime (Yale University Press, 2nd edition, 2002).

Another report to the US Army in July 1973 stated....up to 150,000 civilian deaths resulted from the US bombing campaigns in Cambodia from
These casualties numbers have always varied. This is the low-end.

The bombardment intensified to 3,600 tons per day. William Shawcross reported in Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia, that the "wholesale carnage'' shocked the chief of the political section in the US Embassy, William Harben. One night, he said, "a mass of peasants'' went out on a funeral procession and "walked straight into'' a bombing raid. "Hundreds were slaughtered.''

When US bombs hit a civilian warehouse in Afghanistan last year, US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld responded: "We're not running out of targets, Afghanistan is.'' There was laughter in the press gallery.
What an arrogant comment above.


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