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Nothing Is More Precious Than Freedom & Independence

By VVAW

NOTHING IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN FREEDOM &INDEPENDENCE

-HO CHI MINH

"Fighting side by side with the brother Vietnamese and Lao peoples... and receiving staunch and multivarious support from the People's Republic of China... as well as the militant solidarity of all peace, justice and freedom loving countries and peoples in the world including the American people, our just cause will certainly triumph."

- Mr. Ieng Sary
Inland Branch Special Envoy
National United Front of Cambodia

"We will strive to continue to win the sympathy and support of... peace-loving people all over the world including the progressive people in America for the struggle against the U.S. imperialists for national salvation of our people and the peoples of Laos and Cambodia til its total victory."

- Madame Nguyen Thi Binh
Foreign Minister
Provisional Revolutionary Government

"In these historic days, we are more than ever convinced of the fact that the three peoples of Indochina are linked by the same destiny and that the fraternal and unbreakable friendship of the peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia has been forged by the blood shed in the struggle against the common enemy for their independence and freedom."

- Prof Hoang Minh Gian
Minister of Culture
Democratic Republic of Vietnam

"Let our people strengthen solidarity with the socialist countries, the national liberation movements, the peace forces in the world, particularly the solidarity with the brother Vietnamese and Cambodia peoples, in order to completely shatter the U.S. imperialists' war of aggression in Indochina."

- Prince Souphanouvong
President Central Committee
Lao Patriotic Front

THE PEOPLES OF VIETNAM, LAOS AND CAMBODIA HAVE FOR MORE THAN A DECADE BEEN WAGING AN INTENSIFIED WAR AGAINST THE DOMINATION OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. THE WAR HAS DESTROYED MUCH OF THE LAND, KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, DISPLACED MILLIONS OF FAMILIES AND HAS CREATED A SITUATION BY WHICH THE HISTORIC SOLIDARITY OF THE THREE NATIONS HAS BEEN FURTHER STRENGTHENED BY THE PATRIOTIC DETERMINATION OF THE THREE PEOPLES TO RID THEMSELVES OF THE MOST BARBARIC FOREIGN PRESENCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

THE DETERMINATION OF THE LIBERATION FORCES, THE CORRECT POLITICAL OUTLOOK OF THE PRG, THE DRV, THE PATHET LAO AND THE KHYMER ROUGE, THE VICTORIOUS EFFORTS ON THE BATTLEFIELDS AND THE LOVE OF THE PEOPLE HAVE FURTHER ADVANCED THE LIBERATION STRUGGLES IN THE EYES OF ALL PEACE LOVING PEOPLES IN THE WORLD.

FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HAS NOT ONLY INTERVENED IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF INDOCHINA BUT HAS ALSO ESTABLISHED ITS PRESENCE IN COUNTRIES IN AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA AND IN ASIA. IT CONTINUES TO EXPLORE AND EXPAND ITS FOREIGN MARKETS WHILE KNOWINGLY AND PURPOSELY EXPLOITING THESE NATIONS FOR THE CONTINUANCE OF U.S. BUSINESS INTERESTS ABROAD.

THE LIBERATION STRUGGLES IN AFRICA IN LATIN AMERICA AND IN ASIA HAVE LEARNED FROM THE VICTORIES OF THE INDOCHINESE. THEY HAVE LEARNED THAT DETERMINATION FOR INDEPENDENCE IS ENOUGH TO BRING DOWN AND DEFEAT U.S. IMPERIALISM. THEY HAVE LEARNED THAT ALL PEOPLE FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE AND AGAINST AMERICAN BUSINESS INTERESTS HAVE A COMMON GOAL AND A COMMON STRUGGLE.

THROUGHOUT THE LONG BITTER YEARS OF WAR AGAINST THE LARGEST MILITARY FORCE IN HISTORY, THE SOLIDARITY OF THE INDOCHINESE, AGAIN AND AGAIN, REINFORCED THEIR STRENGTH, GAVE EACH OTHER COURAGE, SUFFERED DURING THEIR TEMPORARY SETBACKS AND SHARED THE JOY OF THEIR VICTORIES. FOR THREE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL STRUGGLES IN THREE SMALL, POLITICALLY CORRECT, ECONOMICALLY WEAK COUNTRIES HAVE BROUGHT THE MONSTER OF U.S. IMPERIALISM TO ITS KNEES, THESE NATIONS HAVE PROVED TO ALL THE WORLD THAT IT CAN BE DONE.

WE IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE LEARNED THE MOST FROM VIETNAM, CAMBODIA AND LAOS. WE HAVE LEARNED THAT OUR NATION WAS WRONG, AS WE WITNESSED THE CRIMES PERPETRATED ON THE INDOCHINESE BY THE U.S. MILITARY. WE WITNESSED TWO AMERICAN PRESIDENTS DESTROYED BY THEIR OWN LIES AND ACTIONS; SCORES OF ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS, ACCOMPLICES TO PRESIDENTIAL CRIMES, DEFEND AND CARRY OUT THOSE ORDERS. WE HAVE SEEN THE LOSS OF JOBS, THE SOARING INFLATION, THE DWINDLING DOLLAR, THE WAGE FREEZES AND WATERGATE. WE HAVE SEEN RACISM BLATANTLY MANIFEST ITSELF IN THE LACK OF CONCERN FOR YELLOW BODIES AND WE HAVE COME TO REALIZE THAT THIS RACISM EXISTS AND SUBVERTS OUR NATIONAL CHARACTER.

THE WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA HAS OPENED OUR EYES, HAS MADE US LEARN THAT WE TRULY LIVE IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST. WE HAE LEARNED THAT THE STRUGGLE WE ARE WAGING HAS BECOME IMPORTANT FOR US AND FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY WE HAVE LEARNED BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE LAOTIANS, THE CAMBODIANS AND THE VIETNAMESE POEPLES THAT THROUGH UNITY COMES STRUGGLE AND THROUGH STRUGGLE COMES FINAL VICTORY.

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