REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE AFRO-ASIAN WRITERS' BUREAU

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100280001-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 1, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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As :,ou know, we have called this Emergency
Meeting mainly to fulfil a bounden duty cast upon
us, the writers, the progressive writers, of Africa and
Asia, that is, to render our resolute support to the
heroic people of Vietnam in the life-and-death strug-
gle they are waging against the U.S. imperialists to
liberate the South, defend the North and reunify their
motherland.
The brave struggle of the people of Vietnam
against the U.S. aggressors has, today, become the
focus of attention of all the anti-imperialist peoples
and forces in the world, particularly in Asia and
Africa. Flagrantly violating the Geneva Agreements,
totally ignoring the world-wide condemnation and
completely disregarding all respect for sovereignty
and independence, the U.S. imperialists have aroused
the hatred and indignation of not only the Vietnamese
people, but of all the peoples of the world, who love
emancipation, who love freedom, who love peace.
Faced with a hopeless dilemma, faced with a peo-
ple who are determined to fight on until their land
is liberated, the U.S. imperialists have launched a
mindless escalation of their aggressive war in south
Vietnam. They have already shipped into it more
than 275,000 aggressive troops and have recruited
their flunkeys, the governments of the Philippines,
Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pak Jung
Hi clique, to supply more cannon-fodder or to ac-
celerate and strengthen their material co-operation
in their aggression.
This new and futile escalation of its war 1:9
subdue the Vietnamese people has, on the one hand,
further proven that U.S. imperialism is the enemy.
Number One of all the progressive and peace-loving
peoples of the world, while, on the other, it has shown.
that U.S, imperialism has been thrown into a des-
perate position in south Vietnam. It has, on the one
hand, proven that U.S. imperialism would go to any
length to turn the tide against it in south Vietnam.
while, on the other, it has shown that the determina-
tion of the Vietnamese people to resist the U.S. ag-
gressors is becoming deeper and stronger. It: los. on
the one hand, proven that U.S.. imperialism would.
not change its bellicose nature until completely de-
feated, while, on the other, it has shown -ha-; t is.
men, and not weapons, that constitute the ;ci!eisi ve
factor in a battle for freedom. The more they esca
Tins is an abridged version of the report subinilt?,.(]
Secretary-General of the Afro-Asian Writers' Bureau, lliitne
Deshapriya Senanayake. It was read by his representr_itiv.:', 0.
Manuweera. to the plenary session of the Afro-Asian Vi":?.1i!)7,'
Emergency Meeting on June 27, 1966.
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their war, the nearer the U.S. imperialists draw them-
selves to their doom in Vietnam. The more they es-
calate their war, the greater are the magnificent vic-
tories scored by the valiant Vietnamese people. No
savageries of any kind can weaken the iron will ,of
the south Vietnamese people to fight until final vic-
tory is achieved.
Dear colleagues, what have the brilliant victories
achieved by the heroic south Vietnamese people
shown us?, What lesson have they given-to the world?
The unparalleled victories scored by the people of
south Vietnam have proved to the world that U.S.
imperialism is not impossible to be defeated. Viet-
nam has distinctly demonstrated that arrows, mat-
chets and bamboo spikes, in the hands of freedom-
loving, revolutionary people, are much more powerful
than the bombs, bullets and missiles of the imperial-
ists. Vietnam has amply shown us that no weapons
and no troops of imperialism can ever besiege and
topple the mighty bastion of a people fighting for
their national liberation. And it is in Vietnam we
have seen that armed struggle is the one and only
method of dealing with all imperialists, colonialists
and :.-,,co-colonialists, headed by the U.S.
In a desperate bid to get out of the blind alley
into which they have led themselves in south Viet-
nam, the U.S. imperialists have escalated their war
of aggression into the Democratic Republic of Viet-
nam, Cambodia and Laos and are even threatening
China. They are wantonly bombing the D=ocratic
Republic of Vietnam, unscrupulously encroaching on
its territory and crudely provoking it. By its despi-r
cable and barbarous aggression against the people
of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, U.S. im-
perialism hopes to intimidate and force them into
submission. It hopes to weaken the fighting capacity
of the heroic north Vietnamese people. But the
courageous people of north Vietnam, who are steeled
in struggle, have dealt resounding blows at the ag-
gressors, teaching them the universal truth that a
revolutionary people can never be intimidated or
,..;ubjugated by them or any brand of imperialists, no
i--natter what weapons they use. We fully endorse all
neasures adopted by the north Vietnamese people to
safeguard their sovereignty and independence. The
n::cc.?nti intruding into the territory of the People's
Flepablie of China by the U.S. aggressor planes and
.-hooting down of a 'nese plane that was on a train-
flight, is .clear p:-oof of the expansion of the U.S.
a!_gresi.ve war in Vietnam to territories. We
s.everely condemn this wanton provoc...,:ive act of U.S.
imperialism against t:-.a People's Republic of China.
And we totally approve the firm stand taken by the
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