#Kissinger’s Bombing Campaign Likely #Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Cambodians and Set the Path for the Ravages of the Khmer Rouge
The bombing resulted in the direct #deaths of hundreds of thousands of #Cambodians. With the #us keeping the bombings secret at the time comprehensive data and documentation are limited. But estimates on the number of deaths range from as few as 24,000 to as many as a million. Most estimates put the death toll in the hundreds of thousands
My old mentor was there, in the ground fight. Officially, that war didn't happen, and if it did, officially Australia wasn't part of it.
He's not proud of it now, but he says the villages there were mostly under NVA or Khmer Rouge control already. And those two Communist factions were already bushwhacking each other.
Cambodia's King Sihanouk had been taking money and weapons from both East and West for his own plans for years, and both East and West were double-crossing him too.
Very complex and ugly war, no "good guy" side at all.
