WESTERN AUSTRALIAN POLICE OFFICERS JOIN THE FIGHT TO CLEAR LAND MINES IN CAMBODIA

摘要

Cambodia may well be the most bombed country in history. In the year 2000, then President Bill Clinton became the first US President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. During his visit and as a humanitarian gesture, President Clinton released data on the extent of US bombings in Indo China between 1964 and 1975. It turns out that the United States dropped far more ordnance on Cambodia than was previously believed -some 2,756,941 tons' worth - which is nearly five times greater than the previous, generally-accepted figure. To put the sheer volume of the Cambodian bombing into perspective, the Allies dropped just over 2,000,000 tons of bombs'during all of World War II, including the bombs that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki; all this in a country roughly the size of Tasmania and with a population of around 15 million people.