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Grenada’s high commissioner to Canada James Emmanuel(r),
told a packed house at Vancouver's Rio Hall Sunday that Gren-
ada would continue on the anti-imperialist course undertaken by
the government of Maurice Bishop and that it would not allow
the U.S. to dictate “who our friends will be” — a reference to the
interference from the Reagan administration. UN envoy lan Ja-

‘U.S. will not dictate to us,’ say Grenadians

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cobs (I) cited the problems of de
Gairy regime, particularly the 50 percent unemployment, but em-
phasized that considerable strides have already been made
through combined development of the state, co-op and private
sectors, the development of the first-ever agricultural processing
industries on the tiny island and a massive literacy campaign.

velopment inherited from the

TRIBUNE PHOTO —JOSHUA BERSON

China, Pol Pot and Kam

THE CHINA, CAMBODIA, VIET-
NAM TRIANGLE. By Wilfred Bur-
chett. Vanguard Publications, 1981,
Chicago, Paper $6.95.

_ How to explain an anti-
imperialist revolution which could
Produce the likes of Pol Pot and
result in the physical extermination
of three million people in a task
Which has till now evaded pro-
gressives in the West.

With Wilfred Burchett’s China,
Cambodia, Vietnam Triangle, a

- Window has been cut through the
wall of propaganda, charges and
counter charges and information
aps that have concealed the in-
Credible, shocking story of the con-
Centration camp society that was
Pol Pot’s and the Khmer Rouge’s
<ampuchea.

Burchett is one of a few who
Could rise to this challenge. The of-
ficial accounts of the ‘genocide
tnal”’ in Phnom Penh, six months
after Pol Pot was swept from
Power by the combined strength of
the Vietnamese soldiers and the
Front for the National Salvation of
ampuchea, can be discounted by

€ cynics who believe the massacre
Of three million people to bea Viet-
Namese or Soviet invention. But
; urchett has not merely passed on

© press statements of the Heng

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He has verified the story by his own
experience and through the
background and connections ac-
quired in 40 years of contact with
South East Asian politics. Burchett
calls as witness to the genocidal rule
of the Khmer Rouge, not only the
victims, but also other journalists,
Prince Norodom Sihanouk and
Pol Pot and his closest col-
laborators themselves.

One interesting diversion in the
book is testimony to the credentials
of Burchett. More than merely the
outstanding author and journalist
on the Vietnam war, he also carried
out personal missions for the Na-
tional Liberation Front of South
Vietnam (NLF) and was part of the
initial negotiation between the
NLF and Sihanouk on the
Vietnam-Kampuchea border issue,
which Pol Pot escalated into a
frontier war. In 1978, Burchett was
in Vietnam and witnessed the
mounting aggression in Vietnam
from both Kampuchea and China.
His reports became increasingly
critical of Pol Pot, and he became a
marked man. Some months after
the deposing of the Pol Pot regime,
the Khmer Rouge attempted to
launch a military counter offen-
sive. A key part of the plan evident-
ly entailed a military operation to
kill Burchett inan ambush about 50
miles from Phnom Penh. The am-
bush, like the counter offensive,
was abortive, and cost a few more
Kampuchean youth their lives. But
it underscored the influence of this
seasoned journalist in Southeast
Asia. :

However, the China, Cam-
bodia, Vietnam Triangle is not
about the atrocities per se; its main
purpose is to attempt to explain.
Burchett offers two general
reasons: first, the warped, perverse
ideological tenets of the Khmer
Rouge which, in the name of a per-

Warm greetings and love
to

Tom McEwen

on the occasion of his 91st birthday
February 11, 1982

Lily, Ray, Louise; :
Toma, Roy, Carrie, Jennifer;
Karen, Gordon, Kimberly.

mS

WILFRED BURCHETT ...

writ-
ing from 40 years’ experience.

sonified demi-god ‘‘Angkar’’, set
out to wipe out everything con-
nected to prior history or scientific
development; and second, the great
power politics of China.

The idea of people being taken
away to their death with the state-
ment, ‘‘Angkar wants you,”
sounds like science fiction.- Yet
amazing as it sounds, ‘‘Angkar —
an old Kampuchean term meaning
“the organization’? — was the
authority which ruled every aspect
of life under the Khmer Rouge, in-
cluding death. Allegiance to
Angkar was interchangeable with
fear of death, the only force which
could sustain a rule of terror
described by Burchett as “‘a twen-
tieth century slave society.”

The involvement of China in the
three year tragedy of Kampuchea
was a conclusion which Burchett
drew with ‘‘sorrow and
disillusion’’. However, once the
unmistakable conclusion was
drawn that the genocide in Kam-
puchea and the 1979 invasion of
Vietnam were two parts of a single
Chinese foreign policy to ensure its
domination over Southeast Asia,
the triangular relations are careful-
ly and accurately drawn.

puchea's agony

From 1954 and the Geneva con-
ference on Indochina, where China
betrayed Vietnam and the revolu-
tionary movements of Laos and
Cambodia; through the liberation
wars to victory day in 1975 when
China attempted a last minute
negotiated settlement to block total
victory for the NLF and Vietcong;
to the tragedy in Kampuchea and
the war against Vietnam, the single
constant factors were the narrow,
chauvinistic aims of the Chinese
and the internationalism of the
Vietnamese. Says Burchett:
“‘Chinese intervention in all three
states of what had been known as
Indochina in colonial days served
notice that imperialist states were
not the only ones that disliked
power vacuums.. If the United
States failed in its attempt to
replace France, China would
replace the United States. This is
the reluctant conclusion which I
have come to in investigating the
China-Cambodia-Vietnam situa-
tion. It is a melancholy reality of
the background to the tragedy of
what happened in Kampuchea.”’

Like the Vladimirov Diaries,
Burchett’s book is a major insight
into the essentially nationalist and
self-seeking foreign policy of China
from 1954 and before. As with the
former, it is published far too late.

In Burchett’s defence, the
China, Cambodia, Vietnam
Triangle is as timely as humanly
possible. Much is based on infor-
mation available only months ago.

This book must be read by
thousands in Canada. It is adamn-
ing indictment of China and will
undoubtedly seal the fate of
Maoism with many of the few on
the left who still refuse to accept the
reality of China’s reactionary
foreign policy. Most of all, this
book allows us to understand
something of the process which in
the name of revolution became one
of the ugliest eras in human history.

—Fred Wilson

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