To: Suma who wrote (185872 ) 11/10/2006 4:18:49 PM From: tbancroft Read Replies (1) | Respond to I know you got your answer, but you aroused my curiosity. It turns out to be a somewhat uncertain number, but much greater than the casualities in Iraq. From Wikipedia:Even today the number of those killed, military and civilian, in the period covered (1959-1975) is open to debate and uncertainty. To illustrate the problem, below are three reference works by three or more authors listing casualty figures. What is remarkable about them is that the only ones that seem to match are the ones that must be, at best, approximations. None of the figures include the members of South Vietnamese forces killed in the final campaign. Nor do they include the Royal Lao Armed Forces, thousands of Laotian and Thai irregulars, or Laotian civilians who all perished in that peculiar conflict. They do not include the tens of thousands of Cambodians killed during the civil war or the estimated one and one-half to two million that perished in the genocide that followed Khmer Rouge victory
