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Secret Bombing Of Cambodia (Khmer, Kampuchea)

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In the fall of 2000, twenty-five years after the end of the war in Indochina, Bill Clinton became the first US president since Richard Nixon to visit Vietnam. While media coverage of the trip was dominated by talk of some two thousand US soldiers still classified as missing in action, a small act of great historical importance went almost unnoticed. As a humanitarian gesture, Clinton released extensive Air Force data on all American bombings of Indochina between 1964 and 1975. Recorded using a groundbreaking IBM-designed system, the database provided extensive information on sorties conducted over Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Clinton's gift was intended to assist in the search for unexploded ordnance left behind during the carpet bombing of the region. Littering the countryside, often submerged under farmland, this ordnance remains a significant humanitarian concern.It has maimed and killed farmers, and rendered valuable land all but unusable. Development and de-mining organizations have put the Air Force data to good use over the past six years, but have done so without noting its full implications, which turn out to be staggering.The Bombing DatabaseThe still-incomplete database (it has several "dark" periods) reveals that from October 4, 1965, to August 15, 1973, the United States dropped far more ordnance on Cambodia than was previously believed: 2,756,941 tons' worth, dropped in 230,516 sorties on 113,716 sites. Just over 10 percent of this bombing was indiscriminate, with 3,580 of the sites listed as having "unknown" targets and another 8,238 sites having no target listed at all. Even if the latter may arguably be oversights, the former suggest explicit knowledge of indiscretion. The database also shows that the bombing began four years earlier than is widely believed -- not under Nixon, but under Lyndon Johnson. The impact of this bombing, the subject of much debate for the past three decades, is now clearer than ever. Civilian casualties in Cambodia drove an enraged populace into the arms of an insurgency that had enjoyed relatively little support until the bombing began, setting in motion the expansion of the Vietnam War deeper into Cambodia, a coup d'état in 1970, the rapid rise of the Khmer Rouge, and ultimately the Cambodian genocide. The data demonstrates that the way a country chooses to exit a conflict can have disastrous consequences. It therefore speaks to contemporary warfare as well, including US operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite many differences, a critical similarity links the war in Iraq with the Cambodian conflict: an increasing reliance on air power to battle a heterogeneous, volatile insurgency.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Author: gatorn

Length: 05:25
Rating: 4.89
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Tags: betrayal  bombing  Cambodia  CIA  Henry  Khmer  Kissinger  Pol  Pot  secret  

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funlover999 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
US, Stop being COCKY, it's not upto you. BLOODY HELL!
MasterFu (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
The US carpet-bombing of Cambodia in the 1970s without any authorization from Congress, killing 600,000 people and driving the peasants into joining the Khmer Rouge This was part of the USs evil-intentioned outrages directed from the air, unambiguously genocidal act of pure wickedness.
sreynauch (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
When America bomb cambodia the claim it was an accident and accident which cost 600, 000 lives. I wonder if America have any remorse?
MasterFu (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
The American bombing raids, which dropped over 2.7 million tonnes of bombs and kill an estimated 600,000 innocent Cambodians.
gatorn (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
You must be one of those expert in Cambodia history! An expert of self demise perhaps. Let's just say that everything you said are correct! Your inability to think beyond the parameter that is set up for you by the consensus make you a typical idiot. You need to think what war does to people and how it manifest into many factions. I suggest you study up on other countries! Be wise, my son.
cbora311 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
The king helped North vietname and vietcong , he may have thought he would have gotten back in return Kampuchea krom ( the lower delta ) which France gave to vietname in 1945 . Politicly speaking the king should not help North vietname at all. He the one who had some parts with the khmer genocide . General Lon Nol who backed by US , he hated vietname . Sadly in 1970, some vietnameses families had forced to leave Cambodia , because Lon Nol dont trust them.He thought vietnames helped vietcong .
cbora311 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
After the relationship with United states was over in 1963 , the king Sihanouk allowed North vietname and vietcong use the territory . Cambodia was claimed as Neutral . Not just allowed North vietname and vietcong use territory , they even supplied foods , medecines . My uncle who was closed to the king , and encharged North East of the country , he used Army truck loading all kind of thing to sell to Vietcong . They may used the seaport to bring ammunition from china to vietcong as well.
gatorn (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Okay, with that said, let's not forget that under Reagan administration, the CIA and British Intel MI5 were sent on a secret clandestine mission to train Khmer Rough on terrorizing ordinary Khmer people. They taught them how to infiltrate, used advance weaponries like rocket launcher, planting land mind...etc. This is the real genocide. It's this part that no one seems to understand. They either too busy with Viet or communism or the King. It's this part that destroy Cambodia.
VIKHMERIOUS (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Called by nature, mind raised in Asia,Since you was tricked, I had to raise ya, From the cradle to the grave.But remember, you're not a slave.'Cause we were put here to be much more than that,But we couldn't see because our mind was trapped.But I'm here to break away the chains, take away the pains,Remake the brains, rebuild my name.Again, somebody told you, a little knowledge is dangerous
crazycambo951 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
fucking nixon was a dick man its bullshit about the khmer rouge the comunist party diddn't die down till 1991 they still had signs saying 1,000 dollars for wight man head and why bomb cambodia anayway my dad lodt his entire family to boming and starving he made it to america though

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