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on what | have seen. My work in the field of economic cooperation
resulted in my being on the scene of the Chinese attack in the
northemmost part of Vietnam.

| visited many places, and | feel | am an out-of-the-ordinary
witness to the brutality of the invaders and their mad fury against
the Vietnamese people and their creative work, the work of
socialism, the unconquerable and undefeated socialism being buiit
by the people of Ho Chi Minh.

The invaders set out to destroy everything. In the invadéd areas not
a single object of economic value was left standing.

They used the following method: make off with the machinery they
could manage to send to China and blow up the rest along with the
factory itself.

The destruction of the pharmaceutical factory is truly hateful. The
two soldiers who blew up this expensive and vital production center,
the only one In the area to meet the needs of thousands of people,
died while carrying out this crime that is worthy of Hitler. The Chinese
Government made them “heroes” of the People’s Republic.

5 ber bombings of 1972. Above: This 200-bed Lang Son hospital was completely destroyed in
1! 1979. In this city two schools, a brick factory, a noodle factory and an entire industrial complex
ggression. A 2,000-pupil high school was biown up with

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| saw rice paddies in which the invaders had dumped salt. | saw
areas where the buffalo had been slaughtered or stolen by the
invaders, with full knowledge of the role these animals play in Viet-
namese agriculture. | saw scores of trucks and other means of
transportation burned or dynamited.

The Chinese fascists did not leave standing a single site of social
value. The city of Lang Son was shelled so intensively that | can say
with certainty that every square meter of the city bears the mark of
heavy calibre shells. The criminal and cynical invaders did not re-
spect even hospitals or schools. Son My was multiplied hundreds of
times over. Flamethrowers were used against bomb shelters, burn-
ing children, women and old people to death. —

Then Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua has the gall to say that
the Vietnamese killed their own children and destroyed what they
themselves had bullt in order to lay the blame on China. What
cynicism!

Above: Sixty-three villagers were killed on April 16, 1972 when U.S. |

fighter planes dropped bombs on the hamiet of Huc Loc near Haiphong.
Thirty-seven women and 26 children died in the raid. This woman sur-

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vived and escaped Injuries but she will never be able to forget that day. ©
Below: This 67-year old woman cries bitterly over the ruins of what was [|

her home, burned by Chinese soldiers.

Left: Mother and infant son, victims of the American air raid on :

Haiphong, April 16, 1972. Below: Tran Thi Mul and her 12 year old son |

died in shelling by Chinese troops on Lao Cal City in March 1979.

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