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Telegram

By Thiounn Prasith

The following telegram was received by the VVAW/WSO National Office from Thiounn Prasith, member of the Political Bureau of the United Front of Cambodia and a Minister in the Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia, in exile in Peking, People's Republic of China.

VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR

NIXON HAS DECLARED CESSATION OF U.S. BOMBING OF CAMBODIA FROM AUGUST 15TH, CONFORMING WITH CONGRESSIONAL LAW STOP THIS IS A GREAT COMMON VICTORY, THANKS TO THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S AND CONGRESSIONAL STRUGGLE AND ALL WORLD PEACE, JUSTICE FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLES STOP CAMBODIAN PEOPLE EXPRESS PROFOUND THANKS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE STOP SOLIDARITY BETWEEN OUR TWO PEOPLES IS SEALED IN STUDENT'S BLOOD, KILLED BY THE NIXON POLICE AT KENT AND JACKSON STOP BUT U.S. BOMBING CESSATION DOES NOT MEAN THAT U.S. AGGRESSION AGAINST CAMBODIA AND CAMBODIAN PEOPLE SUFFERING AGAINST CAMBODIA BY ONE POLITICAL KHMERIZATION, WAR INTENSIFICATION, BY GREATLY INCREASING DOLLARS, AMMUNITIONS, 155 MM GUNS, PLANES OF ALL TYPES, ARMORED CARS, ETC. AND FORCING THE POPULATION INTO THE PUPPET ARMY TO SERVE AS CANNON FODDER TWO INTERVENTION PREPARATIONS OF THE BANGKOK PUPPET ARMY WHICH WAS WITHDRAWN FROM LAOS AND THE SAIGON PUPPET ARMY THREE CONTINUING ACTIVE DIPLOMATIC MANEUVERS FOR SO CALLED COMPROMISE AND NATIONAL CONCORD BETWEEN FUNK, GRUNC AND THE PNOMH PENH TRAITORS STOP WE URGENTLY APPEAL TO YOU TO INTENSIFY MULTIFORM ACTIONS, MASS MEETINGS, DEMONSTRATIONS, CAMPAIGN DECLARATIONS, MASS MOBILIZATIONS, INFORMATION MEETINGS AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES TO ONE DEMAND TOTAL UNCONDITIONAL AND DEFINITE ENDING OF ALL U.S. BANGKOK AND SAIGON VALETS AGGRESSIVE ACTS TWO TOTAL AND IMMEDIATE ENDING OF ALL SUPPORT AND AID TO THE PNOMH PENH TRAITORS CLIQUE AND ALL U.S. INTERFERENCE IN CAMBODIAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS THREE THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLES RIGHT TO SETTLE THEIR OWN AFFAIRS THEMSELVES WITHOUT FOREIGN INTERVENTION ACCORDING TO THE MARCH 23, 1970 DECLARATION OF SAM DECH NORODOM SIHANOUK, HEAD OF STATE AND FUNK CHAIRMAN STOP CAMBODIAN STRUGGLE SITUATION IS VERY FAVORABLE STOP IT IS A VERY AUSPICIOUS MOMENT FOR ALL PEACE, JUSTICE, FREEDOM LOVING FORCES TO BE MOBILIZED WITH THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLES TO STRIKE A DECISIVE BLOW AT U.S. AGGRESSION IN CAMBODIA AND BRING BACK JUST AND EVERLASTING PEACE TO CAMBODIA STOP WARMLY, CORDIAL AND MILITANT RESPECTS STOP

Without the cold and desolation of
Winter
There could not be the warmth and
splendour of spring.
Calamity has tempered and hardened
Me,
And turned my mind into steel.

--Ho Chi Minh