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GIs Encouraged to Protest Viet War

By VVAW

PARIS (LNS) Last April 1971, the Liberation Army of South Vietnam ordered its troops not to fire at GI's who "abstain from hostile acts" against the Vietnamese, and "carry with them anti-war literature."

During the week of Sept. 20, the representatives of the South Vietnamese Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) in Paris clarified lasts April's peace offer what GI's in Vietnam could do to show that they opposed the war.

One suggestion is that GI's support and join the action of the local civilian populations against the war and the Thieu regime. From the legal standpoint such support to the civilian population could not be construed as "aiding and abetting the enemy", under the terms of the military code of justice. Rather such activity would be helping the very people who the U.S. Army is supposedly "protecting."

The possibilities for such activity would vary from place to place depending on the local situation. In Hue, for example, the student movement is particularly effective and the GI's who wear buttons with a rifle upside down, will not be attacked during the anti-Thieu campaign.

The PRG also recommend that GI's continue putting up peace signs on military bases, refusing to participate in military attacks on Liberation Army forces and organizing anti-war actions of all kinds.