Statement Against U.S.-Ngo Dinh Deem Clique'Saggression In South Vietnam And Massacre Of The South Vietnamese People

STATEMENT AGAINST U.S.-NGO DINH DIEM
CLIQUE'S AGGRESSION IN SOUTH
VIETNAM AND MASSACRE OF
THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE PEOPLE
(August 29, 1963)
Of late, the Ngo Dinh Diem reactionary clique of South Vietnam has
stepped up its bloody suppression of Buddhists, college and middle-school
students, intellectuals and masses of people in South Vietnam^”. The Chinese
people express the utmost indignation at this and strongly condemn these
monstrous criminal acts of the Ngo Dinh Diem clique. Chairman Ho Chi
Minh has issued a statement^®® vigorously protesting against the crimes of the
U.S-Ngo Dinh Diem clique. We, the Chinese people, warmly support Chair
man Ho's statement.
U.S. imperialism and its running dog Ngo Dinh Diem have adopted the
policies of turning South Vietnam into a U.S. colony, launching a counter
revolutionary war and strengthening their fascist dictatorship. These have
compelled all sections of the people in South Vietnam to unite extensively to
wage a resolute struggle against the U.S.-Ngo Dinh Diem clique.
Hostile to all the people of South Vietnam, the U.S.-Ngo Dinh Diem
clique now find themselves encircled by the entire people of South Vietnam.
Whatever inhuman weapons U.S. imperialism may use, and whatever atrocious
methods of suppression the Ngo Dinh Diem clique may employ, that clique
will be unable to escape its final doom of utter isolation and collapse, and U.S.
imperialism will have to get out of South Vietnam in the end.
Ngo Dinh Diem is a faithful lackey of U.S. imperialism. But when a
lackey has lost his usefulness or even become a liability to U.S. imperialism in
pursuing its policy of aggression, the U.S. imperialism will not hesitate to
replace him with another lackey. The fate of Syngman Rhee in South Korea
is a precedent. An abject lackey who is led by the nose by U.S. imperialism
can have no other end than sacrificing his life for U.S. imperialism.
Sabotaging the agreement of the first Geneva Conference, U.S. imperial
ism obstructed the unification of Vietnam, openly launched armed aggression
against South Vietnam, and has waged the so-called "special warfare" there for
several years. Again it sabotaged the agreement of the second Geneva Confer
ence and undisguisedly intervened in Laos in an attempt to restart the civil
war there. Apart from those who are out to deceive people on purpose or who
are extremely naive, no one will believe that any agreement on a scrap of paper
will make U.S. imperialism "drop its cleaver and become a Buddha" or behave
itself a little better.
An oppressed people or oppressed nation must not pin its hope for
liberation on the "sagacity" of imperialism and its lackeys, but can win victory
but only by strengthening unity and persisting in struggle. The people of South
Vietnam are doing precisely this.
The patriotic and just struggle of the people of South Vietnam against the
U.S.-Ngo Dinh Diem clique has won significant victories both politically and
militarily. We, the Chinese people, firmly support their just struggle.
I am convinced that the people of South Vietnam will achieve their object
of liberating their area through struggle, and contribute to the peaceful
unification of their motherland.
I hope that the working class, revolutionary people and progressive
personages of the whole world will stand by the people of South Vietnam and,
in response to Chairman Ho Chi Minh's call, support and assist the brave
people of South Vietnam in their just struggle and oppose the aggression and
oppression of the U.S.-Ngo Dinh Diem clique so that the people of South
Vietnam may avoid being massacred and achieve thorough liberation.
(From People's Daily, August 30, 1963)