‘lOO,OOO Civilian Casualties’
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, May 8. Senator Edward M. Kennedy claimed last night that South Vietnamese civilians had suffered more than 100,000 casualties during 1966 as a result of the war, according to the United Press International.
A spokesman for Senator Kennedy said he had arrived at the statistics on the basis of studies conducted by his staff and interviews with Government and medical officials who had served in Vietnam. The spokesman said Senator Kennedy had not decided on any policy position as a result of the statistics, other than to continue his appeal for expansion of hospital facilities for the civilians in Vietnam.
The spokesman said the State Department had announced several weeks ago that three to five new hospitals would be built in Vietnam for the civilian population, and that it was recently disclosed that military hospitals in Vietnam were admitting civilian wounded. The 100,000 figure was heavily based on a hospital bed count of Vietnamese civilians in December at which time 50,000 casualties were tabulated, the spokesman said. “Most officials in Vietnam agree that for everyone you see, there is at least one that you do not and that’s pretty much how we arrived at the figure,” he said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31364, 9 May 1967, Page 17
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