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and Laos details how both of Vietnam's smaller and weaker border
countries were drawn inexorably into Vietnam's war, suffered
massive bombing, and, in the case of Cambodia, endured a post-
war holocaust of nightmare proportions. It is the story of
smuggled arms, unmarked aircraft, covert armies and secret
bombing campaigns. "Cambodia and Laos" traces the development of
American involvement in those countries from 1961, when
President Kennedy sent unmarked planes to bomb the Ho Chi Minh
Trail in Laos, through 1975, when the communist Khmer Rouge
defeated the American-backed government of Lon Nol in Cambodia.
The two million refugees who had fled to the cities to escape
American bombings and Khmer Rouge brutality were driven back to
the countryside, only to endure starvation, terror, and
slaughter.     “Cambodia and Laos ,” Digital Commonwealth ,
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