CEYLONESE EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH PEOPLE OF SOUTH VIETNAM
The newly formed United Left Front in Ceylon set aside September 14 as a "Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of the People of South Vietnam." They appealed for nation-wide demonstrations. The Leaflet distributed by partisans of the United Left Front reads as follows:
"The people of Vietnam won their freedom from the French colonialists, and the 1954 Geneva Agreement guaranteed them free, country-wide elections and freedom from foreign interference.
"But the U.S. installed the puppet dictatorship of Diem and his family in South Vietnam, with unlimited power to painted, vicious Mme Nhu who likes Buddhists to be 'beaten down hard' and ‘roasted. ' .
"The U.S. sent 14,000 specially trained troops and spend about five million rupees a day to keep the dictatorship in power, enough | to feed all the hungry, restore the farms, build industries, schools and hospitals in South Vietnam.
"But instead, the money goes in bombs and napalm for peace-.
ful villages;
"for helicopters carrying gangs to pillage, rape and murder;
"for poisonous chemicals to destroy crops and animals;
"for concentration camps, 1,700 so far, in which the pcople
are herded behind barbed wire , bamboo stakes and armed
guards;
"for arms and poison gas to shoot down all who fight for
their rights;
"to suppress the religious rights of Buddhists, desecrate ~
and burn their temples, murdcr and beat up monks and nuns.
“HE UNITED LEFT FRONT was tho first to give the lead to the — people of this country to express their indignation, © and solidarity with the people of South Vietnan.
“uBuadhist and other organizations have protested in various ways.* The Government has decided to raise the mattcor at the United.
ep Nations. Parliament has resolved to call for the enforcement of the Geneva Agreement and the withdrawa 1 of all U.S. troops.
"But we can and should do morc.
"The undersigned organisations call on all the people of this country and their organisations to observe Saturday, September 14, as a National Day of Solidarity with the people of South Vietnam in their struggle against the U.S.-imposed dictatorship.
"We ask you to support the mass denonstrations and meetings organised on that day jointly with the six main trade union centres or organise your own -— in order to
"Demand an end to the suppression of the freedom of the people of South Vietnam, and especially the religious freedom of the Buddhist masses by the U.S. puppet dictatorship;
"Express solidarity with the people of South Vietnam in their struggle; |
“Demand the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from South Vietnan, ané, Call on our Government to demand in the U.N. that no government should ‘supply troops, arms or equipment to the dictatorship in South Vietnam.
"We also ask everyone to fly a white or black flag in homes and work=-places, on ¢ars and bicycles and in any other Suitable place on September 14. ,
"fhe people of South Vietnam are fighting back against repression and military attack with unexampled courage and determination.
"We cannot let them down. We must do our bit to help them.
"Make September 14 solidarity day with the people of SOUTH VIETNAM, "
The leaflet is signed by the United Left Front and the following organisations: C.C.T.U.0., P.S.L., C.C.C.T.U., C.WiC., C.T.U.F., P.S.W.T.U.F., D.W.C. and the Sri Lanka Jatika Guru Sangamaya.
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