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Part Three: Kissinger

Behind the Bastards

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Cambodia Bombing Campaign

30 to 50 thousand lotians die in the bombing campaign, which makes the sparsely populated nation the most densely bombed place on earth. 30 % of these bombs fail to detonate. In the years since the bombing, another 20 thousand people have died from the estimated 80 million bombs left in the soil. Forty percent of the victims are children. One aid worker said of the situation, there are parts of lao where there is literally no free space. There are no areas that have not been bombed. And when you are in the villages now, you still see the evidence of that. You see the bomb craters and an exploded ordnance just lying around in villages. What a legacy.

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