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Johannjs
This blog has been started in September 2006 to keep a record of events in today's Cambodia, and seems to be a quite good media for general information and follow up.

Trials and Denials in Cambodia
http://trialsanddenials.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html

From the Cambodia Daily, 25 September:
The total weight of bombs that the US dropped on Cambodia during its war with Vietnam may have been five times greater than previously thought, according to a new academic study.

The bombing of Cambodia also began in 1965, more than three years earlier than is widely believed, according to historians Taylor Owen and Ben Kiernan whose analysis of US Air Force data released in 2000 appear in the October issue of Canada's The Walrus magazine. 2,756,941 tons of bombs were dropped in 230,516 sorties over 113,716 sites between 1965 and 1973, the authors say.

This surpasses the bomb weight dropped by the allied forces on all combat theaters during the whole of World War II, which totaled 2 million tons, they write...

Information Minister and government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said the bombing encouraged rural Cambodians to join the Khmer Rouge. But he said he was not concerned with the numbers of bombs dropped. "We are Buddhists...so we try to forgive and forget," he said.

US Embassy spokesman Jeff Daigle could not be reached for comment.
Related info:
Bombs Over Cambodia
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/his...-over-cambodia/

( or download the PDF file - with a map of bombed areas - at Yale's:
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/Walrus_CambodiaBombing_OCT06.pdf )

see also
Yale Cambodian Genocide Project
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/
menghuy
QUOTE(Johannjs @ Feb 13 2007, 12:01 AM) *

This blog has been started in September 2006 to keep a record of events in today's Cambodia, and seems to be a quite good media for general information and follow up.

Trials and Denials in Cambodia
http://trialsanddenials.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html

From the Cambodia Daily, 25 September:
The total weight of bombs that the US dropped on Cambodia during its war with Vietnam may have been five times greater than previously thought, according to a new academic study.

The bombing of Cambodia also began in 1965, more than three years earlier than is widely believed, according to historians Taylor Owen and Ben Kiernan whose analysis of US Air Force data released in 2000 appear in the October issue of Canada's The Walrus magazine. 2,756,941 tons of bombs were dropped in 230,516 sorties over 113,716 sites between 1965 and 1973, the authors say.

This surpasses the bomb weight dropped by the allied forces on all combat theaters during the whole of World War II, which totaled 2 million tons, they write...

Information Minister and government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said the bombing encouraged rural Cambodians to join the Khmer Rouge. But he said he was not concerned with the numbers of bombs dropped. "We are Buddhists...so we try to forgive and forget," he said.

US Embassy spokesman Jeff Daigle could not be reached for comment.
Related info:
Bombs Over Cambodia
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/his...-over-cambodia/

( or download the PDF file - with a map of bombed areas - at Yale's:
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/Walrus_CambodiaBombing_OCT06.pdf )

see also
Yale Cambodian Genocide Project
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/



i did not read what ever its said up there but we can blame on the us, china, vietnam and the ussr.
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