Beijing Review: "U.S. Aggressors Pretend to Be Kind-Hearted," April 7, 1972 This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
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Source: "U.S. Aggressors Pretend to Be Kind-Hearted," Beijing Review 15, no. 14, 7 April 1972, 10.

Transcribed by an HC, April 15, 2005

BEIJING REVIEW

April 7, 1972

U.S. Aggressors Pretend to Be Kind-Hearted

by "Renmin Ribao" Commentator

[Transcriber's introduction (April 15, 2005): MIM opposes book worship, but it is also necessary to oppose nihilism regarding what Maoists thought or did not think in revolutionary China. Below is one of many similar articles on the united $tates around the time of u.$. President Nixon's late February 1972 visit to China.

Various anti-Maoist nihilists who insist on spreading lies about what Mao and Maoists thought are counting on people's not reading the Maoists in the original. Beijing Review articles recently retyped and posted on MIM's Web site are mainly to encourage people already leaning torward MIM's line to pursue their own study of Chinese Maoists' writings, in Beijing Review , People's Daily , Red Flag and other publications. On the other hand, it wouldn't hurt if MIM could easily put lots of these articles on the Internet. If you access to digitized-text (already typed-up) copies of articles (if Beijing Review , particularly from 1958-1976 issues) and want to help out, please let mim3@mim.org know.]

The U.S. Government recently proclaimed March 26 to April 1 "national week of concern for Americans who are prisoners of war or missing in action." During the week, the U.S. authorities were to hold all kinds of activities to secure the "safe return to home and freedom" of U.S. prisoners of war. This was an abject trick of the U.S. Government to cool down the American people's struggle against the war of aggression in Viet Nam and to deceive world public opinion. This is added proof that U.S. imperialism is bent on continuing the war of aggression in Viet Nam and other countries of Indochina.

It is quite absurd for the U.S. Government to have made such a fuss about the "P.O.W." question. In its war of aggression against Viet Nam and other countries of Indochina for more than ten years. U.S. imperialism has committed innumerable towering crimes against the Vietnamese and other Indochinese peoples by savagely slaughtering countless innocent and peaceful inhabitants and causing uncountable losses in life and property. Shutting its eyes to its own bloody crimes, the U.S. Government pretended to be kind-hearted by devising a so-called "P.O.W." week, and talking glibly about "humanitarianism" and "fair treatment" for "war prisoners." This is really the height of hypocrisy.

The so-called "P.O.W." question is entirely the product of the war of aggression launched by U.S. imperialism. Since U.S. imperialism has sent an enormous number of aggressor troops to kill the Vietnamese people and occupy their land, the heroic Vietnamese people certainly have the right to firmly resist and severely punish the aggressors. The Vietnamese people's struggle will not cease for a single day so long as U.S. imperialism does not stop bombing north Viet Nam and committing aggression against south Viet Nam. The U.S. Government is wholly responsible for the fact that the U.S. "P.O.W.'s" cannot return home at an early date and their number is increasing daily. If the U.S. Government really took the strong desire of the American people into consideration, and really "cared" for the fate of the U.S. "P.O.W.'s" and their families, it would have withdrawn the U.S. aggressor troops and ended the Viet Nam war long ago. But the U.S. Government has not done this. Instead, it has used all kinds of tricks, trying to divert public attention, and even arbitrarily suspended the Paris talks on the Viet Nam question, in a vain attempt to force the Vietnamese people into submission by expanding the bombing. There is an old saying in China: "The people are not afraid of death; why threaten them with it." This outrageous act of the U.S. Government can only arouse the Vietnamese people to stouter resistance and bring more ignominious defeat to the U.S. aggressors.

The so-called "P.O.W." question is only part of the Viet Nam question. The 7-point peace proposal put forward last year by the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet Nam and its elaboration on the two key points not long ago have pointed out the correct way to solve the Viet Nam question, the "P.O.W." question included. If the U.S. Government really wants to solve the Viet Nam question, it must conduct serious negotiations with the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet Nam and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam and seriously consider and accept the fair and reasonable proposals of the R.S.V.N. Provisional Revolutionary Government. The war in Viet Nam can really come to an end only when the U.S. Government immediately stops the war carried on by its air force in Viet Nam and all its other military activities, when it speedily, unconditionally and completely withdraws all its aggressor troops before a set terminal date and when it discontinues all support to the Nguyen Van Thieu puppet clique of south Viet Nam. It is only when all this is done that American soldiers will suffer no more casualties and get a "safe return to home," and the Viet Nam question, including the "P.O.W." question, can be solved.

The Chinese people strongly condemn U.S. imperialism's new intrigue on the so-called "P.O.W." question, firmly support the just stand reasonable proposals of the R.S.V.N. Provisional Revolutionary Government and he Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, and stand steadfastly by the Vietnamese and other people of Indochina in carrying their war against U.S. imperialism and its lackeys through to the end. We are deeply convinced that the heroic Vietnamese and other people of Indochina will defeat all the war adventures and political deceit and intrigues of U.S. imperialism and win completely victory in their war against U.S. aggression and for national salvation.

(March 31)