STATE DEPARTMENT CABLES: SENATORIAL INQUIRY CIVILIAN VICTIMS OF LAOS WAR; OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL JOURNAL 18, 23 MARCH

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 23, 1970
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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SUBJECTS SENATORIAL. INQUIRY CIVILIAN VICTIMS OF
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REQUESTED PARA 6 REFTEL:.
TO SPECIFIC.RESPONSES_
19 A RE CASUALTY ASPECTS REFUGEE MOVEMENT, CIVIL
IAN CASUALTIES AND MORBIDITY ARE:DIRECTLY RELATED
MILITARY ACTION WITHIN LAOS. FIRST ' LARGE. REFUGEE:
MOVEMENTS IN LAOS STARTED 196161962-AS RESULT KONG
LE COUP AND OCCUPATION PDJ.AND.CERTAIN AREAS SAM
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ABOUT' 70DOOO PEOPLE: WERE DISPLACED TO HILL' AREAS
SOUTH OF PDJ AND WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF SAM:
NEUA CITY. IN 1964 PL-VN FORCES OVERRAN. MOUNTAIN-
OUS AREA SOUTH OF ROUTE 7 FROM NVN TO THE: PDJ,
1tJ AS THESE GROUPS WERE HARASSING THIS IMPORTANT
SUPPLY ROUTE. LEVEL REMAINED STATIC,
ILLEGIB 1 964- 1 968 (SHOWING CONSTANT ATTRITION) WITH' EXCEPTION
PEAK IN CASU
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COUNTRY MILITARY ACTION HAS. STEADILY ESCALATED WITH:
DISPLACEMENT PEOPLE AND COINCIDENT INCREASE CASUALTIES'
AND. MORBIDITY @- DOUBLING IN PAST,18 MONTHS. HISTORY'
OVER PAST YEAR THOROUGHLY COVERED IN VIENTIANE'1294?`
jB RE OVERALL PRINCIPAL CAUSES FLOW OF PEOPLE,.
THESE BASICALLY STATED IN ATTACHMENT TOAID A?959,
12/19169, HOWEVER SUGGEST YOU REVIEW AND ADD To STATE.
MENT, AS APPROPRIATE FOR RESPONSE TO SENATOR,
FROM PARA 4, VIENTIANE 8055, 11/25/69+ RECURRENCE
CIVILIAN WAR CASUALTIES., EXACT NUMBER CIVILIAN
CASUALTIES (KILLED, MISSING, WOUNDED) UNKNOWN AS
LAOS HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE DEVELOP'EVEN RUDIMENTARY'
REPORTING SYSTEM. CANTON AND.DISTR.ICT RECORDS OF-
FAMILIES DISPLACED ARE SENT TO PROVINCIAL OFFICES
AND MAY OR MAY NOT BE TRANSMITTED CENTRAL GOVERN.
MENT. RECORDS HAVE BEEN KEPT DURING PAST FIVE YEARS,
AT SAM THONG BUT THESE NOT AVAILABLE'DUE TO RAPID
EVACUATION THIS SITE MARCH 17 (CHECKING TO SEE IF
DUPLICATES .ARE AVAILABLE ' AND CAN' BE COMPILED VIENTIANE)*
AS INDICATION MAGNITUDE CASUALTIES, FOLLOWING STATISTICS:
COVERING PERIOD 1 JANUARY ,19`69'- 1 JANUARY 1970 HAVE
BEEN MAINTAINED FOR USAID'.SUPPflRTED FACILITIESDES-
CRIBED PARA 9.B BELOWs
(A) HOSPITALS a 3,450 MILITARY, 1,x864 CIVILIANs (B)
DISPENSARIES AND COMBAT MEDICS (AVERAGE-OP-60 PERCENT:
OF TOTAL LOCATIONS REPORTING) - 8,999 MILITARY, 1,810
CIVILIAN. THIS BEST WE CAN DO UNDER: CIRCUMSTANCES AND!
REPORTING SYSTEM PRETTY WELL'IN COLLAPSE DUE; TO
RECENT EVENTS, PARTICULARLY MR II.
DURING THE SAMEPERI"OD. 3,715 MILITARY CASUALTIES WERE:
HANDLED IN'USAID/RO SUPPORTED FAR HOSPITALS. ADDITIONAL'
FIGURES FROM RLG/08 CIVILIAN HOSPITALS BEING COMPILED, BUT
UNABLE PROVIDE WITHIN DEADLINE THIS MSG. THESE FIGURES DO
NOT INCLUDE TREATMENTS GIVEN IN OVER 125FIELDaTYPE DIS
PENSARIES FOR MINOR WOUNDS AND ILLNESSES. THEY WOULD'
AMOUNT TO MANY THOUSANDS MORE.
2oA 204,00.0 PLUS''
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2.C, OUR ASSUMPTION THIS. UESTION SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO:
28 ABOVE, IN WHICH. CASE ANSWER IS NO. IN EARLIER PERIODS)
E'G?a 1963 AND' 1965, SOME' DISPLACEMENTS HAVE RESULTED
FROM OVERCROWDEDCONDITiONS AND NATURAL DISASTERS' SUCH.
AS FLOODS.
2,vD' AS OF MID-MARCH, THERE WERE:APPROX 20,000 REFUGEES
BEING SUPPORTED. BY'U.S. PROGRAMS IN LAOS. OF THIS NUMBER
ABOUT 100,000 ARE. ACTUALLY DEPENDENTS OF MILITARY
AND PARAMILITARY FORCES. LOYAL TO: T HE RLG. THESE LATTER
ARE GIVEN THE SAME SUPPORT AS THE 104,000 CIVILIAN,
NONMILITARY DEPENDENTS. AS OF.MID-MARCH, THESE REFUGEES
WERE LOCATED' IN THE FOLLOWING PL.ACE$
.91) 45,+000 ? AREA NORTH AND ALONGWESTERN PERIMETER:
PDJ. f3AN LOUM, BAN SAN PHA KHU, PHE'COM, MUONG Soul,
XIENG DAT COMPLEX). THESE REFUGEES:REFUGEES LEFT THEIR ORIGINAL
HOMES AS RESULT OF MILITARY ACTIONS. THEY CAME FROM
(A) AREAS NORTHEAST OF PDJ,.(B) BAN BAN AREA, (C) NA
KHAUG/HOUA MUONG, (D) NORTHWESTERN SECTOR OF'PDJ,.AND
(E) FROM BORDER AREA BETWEEN SOUTHERN HOUA PHAN AND
XIENS KHOUANG PROVINCES.
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(5) 2i 000 -NAM TAN/NAM PHUY' AREA. FROM XIENG;
KHOUANG, MUONG SAI AND ' MUONG HOUN.
(6) 16,000 -VIENTIANE PLAIN (BAN KEUNrBAN'THALAT,
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20,000 - NAM THOUEI IN HOUA KHONG PROV1NCE?.
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h '/':NAM.THA AREA ALONG HOUA KHOONG-CHINESE BORDER.
,(4) 5:0000 LUANG PRABANG`. THEY HAVE COME: FROM
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BAN DONE, SANX AK, MUONG MOC AREAS.
(8 ) ~ 2, 500 SAVANNAKHE.T;/THAKHEK. FROM. HO. CHi
N.H TRAIL AREA,
(9) 3,500 e?PAKSE< FROM TRAIL AREA,
(10'1 "000 000 SARgVgNE
AFtC7UtvD SA RA~~ANE. VANE. FROM TRAIL AREA. AND CLOSE
RELATIVELY SAFE HAVEN, BUT IS COMPLETELY SURROUNDED,
'11) 3v000 - ATTOPEU. FROM TRAIL'
TO SA'AVANE, IS COMPLETELY AREA AND, SIMILAR
~.HA.~eS IN COMPOSITION SURROUNDED,
1N SGiE TN SITION AND NUMBERS OF REFUGEES
ONG/LONGTIENG SOUTH AREAS WERE DESCRIBED IN
VIENTIANE 1918< SITUATION
CAINNGOT READJUST IS FLUID AND THEREFORE
NUMBERS AT SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
'?H I S MOMENT,
!.!P TO LAST YEAR MOST LAST ST REFUGEE GROUPS
TRIBES IN CONSISTED
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