ne'¢ U.S. magazine Look wrote on
ne 11, 1970—since 1965 (when the
of &xpeditionary corps was directly

eg Percent higher. '

a) CONTINUED CHEMICAL WAR-
RE COUPLED WITH ATTEMPTS

DECEIVE PUBLIC OPINION.
‘glongside bombing and_ strafings,

Nixon administration continued
fical warfare . . . Toxics laid waste
if’ 1,880,000 hectares (one hectare
oftls 2.47 acres) of rice and other
eS, orchards and jungles; hundreds
them lethally .. .
|. . The U.S. wantonly lobbed gas
Chemicals, bombs and shells on
DRges. Gas and toxic chemicals were
' sprayed by U.S. and Saigon troops
™) underground trenches, shelters,
elses, wells and other drinking water
tces during their actions. In the
i0-1971 fiscal year, the Nixon admi-
ggtation spent $8 billion on chemical
“stare and has planned to drop
10,000 more gallons of “Blue” and
janite’ agents on South Vietnamese

ince the beginning of this year,
.» aircraft have been flying more
yMical sprays over numerous areas
athe provinces of Quang Tri (March,

l), Thua Thien (May, 1971), Phu
1 (March and April, 1971), Tra Vinh
vitruary, 1971), Rach Gia February,
il), Ca Mau (January, March and
onl, 1971), etc.
nthe Nixon administration is training
Mi Saigon army and equipping ‘it with
imMical warfare facilities to continue:
h atrocities in South Vietnam.

he continued and intensified use of
fMical products in high concentra-
7. and on vast areas for many years
‘ithe U.S. in South Vietnam has had
pious effects on the population and

environment there, effects unfore-
‘Mable for the immdiate or distant
e.
e U.S. chemical war crimes in
itlth Vietnam were exposed and

eT

J@0ngly condemned by the Paris In- .

(National Conference of Scientists
Sctember 1970) and the second ses-

sion of the International Commission
for Inquiry into U.S. war crimes held
in Oslo (June, 1970).

HARSHER PRISON REGIME AND
MEDIEVAL TORTURE

Besides a sum of $6,761,000 for pay-
ing U.S. advisors on prison and cover-
ing the cost of the maintaining of pri-
sons in South Vietnam, the Nixon ad-
ministration has spent 100 more mil-
lion dollars for the enlargement of the
prison system.

After the denunciation of the 150
“tiger cages” in Con Son island (July,
1970) the: Nixon administration, on the
one hand, ordered the abolition of the
“tiger cage” regime, but on the other,
has. secretly built 384 new “tiger
Cages: 4 3%

AFP estimated on April 29, 1971, at
400,000 the South Vietnamese prison
population. Current were such horrors
as applying electricity to the breasts
of women detainees and to the genitals
of men prisoners, driving nails into
their fingers and toes, immersing them
in water, strappado, tearing out their
teeth with pincers, driving skewers
into the privy parts of female inmates
including teenaged girls, repeatedly for
many days.

Pham The Truc, a member of the
Saigon “parliament” testified that in
the first six months of 1971, in Inh
Thuan province alone, nearly 8,000
civilians were unwarrantedly impri-
soned and savagely tortured. Accord-
ing to Kieu Mong Thu, a woman mem-
ber of “parliament,” the warders at

Tan Hiep jail used quick lime and acid
against women prisoners, inflicting —

grave injuries on many of them.

II. Continual and serious encroach-
ments on the sovereignty and security
of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

In blatant violation of the U.S. gov-
ernment’s commitment to end definite-
ly and unconditionally all bombard-
ments and other acts of war against
the DRVN, in the thirty months of its
rule, the Nixon administration (or-
dered the following): . . . aircraft of
various kinds, including B-52 stategic
bombers, and its artillery based south
of the demarcation river and on the
Seventh Fleet in repeated reconnais-
sance flights and murderous bombing
and shelling missions against many
heavily populated areas in North Viet-
nam. _

U.S. planes flew 31,215 reconnais-
sance sorties over 25 provinces and
cities in North Vietnam, and the tem-
po of such flights had not ceased grow-
ing. From a monthly average of 650 in
1969, it went up to 1,150 in 1970 and
1,600 in the first half of 1971.

U.S. tactical aircraft made 2,714 and
B-52 strategic planes 601 strikes re-
leasing a total of 184,167 demolition
and blast bombs, 2,858 cluster bomb
units (CBU) many missiles, rockets and
20 mm shells on many populated areas
from Vinh Linh (17th parallel) to Vinh
Phu province (21st parallel) and even
letting off missiles and rockets on the
outskirts of Hanoi and Haiphong.

On March 21, 1971, 40 waves of jet
planes including F-4, F-105 and other
types in 15 air actions in succession
dropped 150 demolition and _ blast
bombs and 22 CBUs, fired many mis-
siles, rockets and 20 mm shells on
population centres in Ky Anh and Hu-
ong Khe districts, Ha Tinh province,
killing or wounding over 30 civilians,
destroying 27 houses and a primary
school.

The rate of U.S. air strikes increased
day after day. In 1969: the monthly
average of tactical aircraft missions
was 50, that of B-52’s was four.

In 1970: the figures rose respectively
by 150 and 45 times. In the first half
of 1971 the monthly rate was 137 times

‘for tactical planes and 46 for B-52s.

III. Direct invasions of Cambodia and
Laos extend the Nixon administration’s
war of aggression to the whole of Indo-
china. :

To salvage its ‘“Vietnamization” pro-
gram in South Vietnam, the Nixon ad-
ministration not only continued to
violate the sovereignty and threaten
the security of the Democratic Repub-
lic of Vietnam but also expanded the
aggressive war to Cambodia and Laos,
thereby adding to its records fresh war
crimes against the Indochinese.

On March 18, 1970, following the
U.S.-masterminded coup d’etat against
Head of State Nordom Sihanouk the
Nixon administration set up a lackey
administration in Phnom Penh. At the
end of April 1970, -it hurled tens of

thousands of U.S. and Saigon troops ©

into an invasion of Cambodia . .

The Nixon administration continued
to introduce military personnel, weap-
ons and strategic goods into Vietniane
to step up its special war in Laos. The
Central Intelligence Agency spent hun-
dreds of millions of dollars on the or-
ganizing, training and officering of the
mercenary army of the Meo national-
ity headed by Vang Pao for inroads
into the liberated zone of Laos. The
U.S. also brought 17 battalians and
continued to bring more battalions of
Thai mercenaries to Laos to join the
Trightist army...

The U.S. kept a high level of bomb-
ing in Laos. U.S. senator Paul McClos-
key recently disclosed that the ton-
nage of bombs dropped in Laos had
doubled since Nixon assumed Office.
Since September 1970, it has been fly-
ing a daily average of 500-600 tactical
aircraft and 50-60 B-52 missions against
Laos.

Early in February 1971 the Nixon
administration mobilized nearly 2,000
planes, more than 40,000 U.S. and
Saigon troops in aggression against
Southern Laos. However, the disorder-
ly rout of this aggressive army after
losing an important part of its man-
power vividly demonstrated the bank-
ruptcy of “Vietnamization,” whose
purpose is to shift on to the Saigon
army the war responsibility of U.S.
troops.

Along with these criminal opera-
tions, the Nixon administration has
endeavored to instigate the rightist
party in Vientiane to torpedo every
effort of the Lao Patriotic Front to
solve the Laos issue peacefully.

IV. Universal indignation of the hein-
ous crimes of U.S. imperialism and the
Vietnamese people’s resolve to carry on
their resistance till final victory.

The past 30 months of the Nixon
administration have been thirty months

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of progress along the path of the neo-
colonialist war of aggression against
Vietnam and the whole Indochinese
peninsula...

According to the estimates of Wil-
liam Wallace Ford, retired U.S. Army
Brigadier (New York Times July 2,
1970) in South Vietnam alone, the U.S.
war of aggression has had the follow-
ing consequences: 300,000 civilians
killed, over 1,000,000 others injured,
105,000 incapacitated, 258,000 orphans
and 6,000,000 DPs and homeless. ~

Together with the progressives in
the United States who have been
courageously and persistently pushing
up their actions against the policy of
aggression and the crimes of war of
the U.S. ruling circles in Indochina, a
front of the world people has practic-
ally taken shape to back the just fight
of the Indochinese peoples under the
common slogan urging the Nixon ad-
ministration to stop immediately its
ageression in Vietnam and Indochina,
bring home speedily all the U.S. troops
and let the Vietnamese and the other
peoples of Indochina settle their own
affairs without U.S. interference.

Recently, the disclosure of the Pen-
tagon’s “secret study” on Vietnam by
the American press has further sub-
stantiated the denunciations made by
the Government of the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam over many years
past concerning the root cause of the
Vietnam war, and the aggressive na-
ture of the United States.

For their part, the Vietnamese peo-
ple from South to North, while being
deeply grateful for the allround sup-
port of the fraternal socialist coun-
tries, the nationalist countries and the
forces of peace and democracy through-
out the world and eagerly longing for
peace which, however, must be a peace
in real independence and freedom, are
determined with the peoples of Laos
and Cambodia at their side to keep up
their war of resistance to U.S. aggres-
sion for national salvation, till com-
plete victory.

Over the past two and half years,
defying all difficulties and hardships,
the Vietnamese people in conjunction
with the successful fight of the Laos
and Cambodian poples, have inflicted
heavy reverses on the U.S. aggressors
and their henchmen: more than 1,150,-
000 enemy troops including 365,000
GI’s and tens of thousands of tons of
weapons and a considerable amount of
war materials of the U.S. have been
put out of action.

The bellicose and corrupt lackeys of
the U.S. in Saigon are more isolated
than ever. Over the same period, 138
U.S. aircraft ‘have been shot down in
the Democratic Republic of Vietnam,
bringing to 3,395 the total of U.S.
planes grounded between August 5,
1964 and June 30, 1971.