Seen and heard on Ms. Theary C. Seng's Facebook accounts:
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
SIDESHOW
by William Shawcross:
...final, frenzied use of American air power.
The White House ignored its agreement with Congress that the intensity
of the bombing during the last forty-five days not be increased. In June
[1973], 5,064 tactical sorties were flown over Cambodia [neutral
country size of Michigan, not at war with US, which US illegally invaded
as "a holding action...one of those things like a rear guard you drop
off...troika's going down the road and the wolves are
closing in, and so you throw them something off and let them chew it.
That was Cambodia" -Mataxis of the My Lai massacre fame and now in
charge of Cambodia]; in July this was raised to 5,818; and the first
half of August, 3,072 raids were flown. In those forty-five days, the
tactical bombing increased by 21 percent. The B-52 bombing also
increased, though those planes were already almost fully committed. By
August 15, when the last American planes dropped their cargoes, the
total tonnage dropped since Operation Breakfast [in my province of Svay
Rieng] was 539,129. Almost half of these bombs, 257,465 tons, had fallen
in the last six months. (During the Second World War 160,000 tons were
dropped on Japan.) On Air Force maps of Cambodia thousands is square
miles of densely populated, fertile areas are marked black from the
inundation (p.297).
No comments:
Post a Comment