Peking Review No. 18, 29 April 1966: 'White terror' in Indonesia, women and children killed

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OCR errors remain. === [PDF page 1] === PE 18 April 29, i966 lI Hold HiSh the Great Red Banner ol Mao Tse-tung's Thinking; Actiuely 4 Participate in the Great $ocialist Cultural Revolutiom Afro- Asi on I our nslists' Associotion -{L Secretoriat Meeting in Peking === [PDF page 2] === PEKING REVIEW Wor 8, No. Id Published in English, French, Spanish, > Japanese and German editions “OAL THE WEEK Albanion Party and Government CLeiegation Welcomed; China Commemorates Lenin's 96th Birthday Anniversary; Tanzania's National Doy; Vice-Premier Li Hsien-nien Visits Cambodia (p. 3) ~ “ ARTICLES AND DOCUMENTS Hold High the Great Red Banner of Mao Tse-tung’s Thinking; Actively Participate in the Great Socialist Cultural Revolution (p. 5) A Mojor Victory for China’s Foreign Policy of Peace — Renmin Ribao Editorial (p. 10) A.A.J.A, Secretariat Meets in Peking — Our Correspondent (p. 12) Communique of the AAJA. Secretariat Meeting (p. 13) Genera! Report by Djawoto (p. 16) The Five-Sterred Red Flag Is Inviolable (p. 19) Strongest Pretests Against Indonesian Government's Deliberate Anti-China Out- * rages (p. 21) Indonesian Government — Organizer of the Anti-China Outrages — Renmin Ribao Commentator (p. 23) Right-Wing Reactionaries Plunge indonesia Into a Bloedbath (p. 25) Firm Support for Dominican People's Patriotic, Anti-U.S. Struggle (p. 28) The People Indomitable —Hsinhua Correspondent (p. 30) Published every Friday by PEKING REVIEW Pai Wan Chuang, Peking (37), China Post Office Registration No. 2.922 Cable Address: Peking 2910 Printed ‘in. the People’s Republic of China [re-OCR’d Oct 18 2026: tesseract 200 dpi, replaces text-layer text for this page] === [PDF page 3] === THE WEEK Albsnion Psrty ond Government Delegotion Welcomed rf\HE Albanian Party and Govern- and the Albanian people who firmly inspiring and supporting the strug- I ment Delegal.ion, which is mak- defend the purity of Marxism- gles of the people of aI1 countries, ing a friendlv visit to China at the Leninism, who refuse to bor,v to they had become an insurmountable invitation of the Central Committee tyranny. and who shou- a high de- obstacle standing in the way of the of the Chinese Communist Party and gree of principied stand and revolu- aggressive plans of U.S. imperialism the Government of the People's Re- tionary spirit in the stluggle against and its drive for hegemony. He public of China, arrived in Kun- imperiaiism and revisioirisml added that the glorious Communist mi.ng, Yunnan Province, on April 26. Partv of China held high the invin- Along the road frorn the airport The delegation is led by Mehmet to the Guest House. the Albanian stocd cible banner of Marxism-Leninism, Shehu, Member of the Political guests u-ere heartill- cheered b5 the ai the front of the struggle Bureau of the Central Committee of pecpie. llanl' bu;iding. -,r-=r'e hurg against nlcciern revisicnism. and. rvith its hercic a:rci plincipled strugthe Albanian Part;g of Labour and s-ith bu.:iiings i:scr':bed 'ritt rhe gie. Chairman of the Ccuncil of ll{inis- slcgans: "Long iive the rnilitant inspirei a.i llarxist-Leninist ters cf the People's Republic of friendship of the great pecples of Par-ties anC aE llar-sist-Leninisis throughout the rsorld. Albania. Members of the delega- China and Albania!" "Resolutely option include Hysni Kapo, Member of pose U.S. imperialism, No. 1 enemy Comrade Shehu expressed the the Political Bureau of the Central of the people of the r'vcrldl" "Firmly belief that the visit of his delegatiol Comrnittee of the Albanian Part;z of and thoroughly oppcse modern re- would heip further strengthen the Labour, Abdyl I(eilezi, Mernber of visionisml" "Loi'rg live invincible. fraternal friendship, steel-like unii.y tl.re Central Committee of the Pa"rty Marxism-Leninism!" and all-round co-operation betrveen and Plesident of the Albania-China the two Parties, Governments an,C The same evening. Yen Hung- peoples. This visit. he said. would Friendship Association, and Nesti yen and Chou Hsing gave a banquet be a new contlibution to the cor:r- Nase. Aiternate Member of the Cenin honour of the Albanian guests. mon struggle against imperialism, tlal Cominittee and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Speaking at the banquet, Com- modern revisionism and the reacrade Shehu strcssod that the Alba- tionaries of ail countries. More than 100,000 I(unming nran and Chinese peoples had citizens from various nationalities Yen Hung-yen in his speech paid formed an unbreakable rrrilitant tribute to the hard-working and ar-rd ail walks of life gave s grand friendship which was built on the courageous Albanian PeoPIe lvho. and enthusiastic v'eicome to the basis of immortal Marxism-Lenin- under ihe leadership of the Albaenvoys of the heroic Albanian people u,ho stand in the {orefront of ism and proletarian intelnational- nian Party of Labour heade,C by ism. This friendship had been built Comrade Enver Hoxha, had consistthe struggle against imperialism and mcclern revisionism. up by the two fraternal Parties in ently held aloft the revolutionary their resolute struggle for sociaiism, banner of N{arxism-Leninism. car- Grceting the d-istinguished guests in defence of the purit;, of Nlarxism- ried out heroic and persistent strugat the airport were Yen Hung-yen, Leninism and against their common gles and achieved one glorious vicrt First Secretary of the Yunnan Pro- enemy the irnperialists headed by tory after another in their sociaiist vincial Committee of the Chinese U.S. imperialism and its lackey, revolution and construction. Yen Communist Party, and Chou Hsing, mcCern levisionisrn. This friendship. Hung-v,en sai.d that the whole series Governor of Yunnan Province, and he said, ',r,as the friendship betu'een of important revolutionarv measures other Party. government and miiitary the peoples. It was flourishing and of a mass character the Aibanian leaders of Yunnan Province. grorving and would lemain ever'- Party of Labour and the Albanian green for all generatiolls to come. Government irad adopted recentiy on When Comrades Shehu and Kapo walked torn ards the r,l,elcoming Comrade Shehu said that the a nationrvide scale wouid not onlY crorvd, colourful national dances Chinese people had become the push ahead Albania's socialist revoluwere performed and liveiy national greai modei for the people of all tion and construction but had great music v.ras played. Girls presented countri,es in winning freedom, na- international significance. bouquets to the guests. The rvel- tional independence and social pro- Yen Elung-yen said: "The AlLranian comers shouted the slogan salut- gress, and opposing imperialism, Party of Labour is a glorious, great li ing the Albanian Party of Labour colonialism and neo-colonialisrn- By and correct Marxist-Leninist Party' April 29, 1966 === [PDF page 4] === the People's Republic of Albania is a great revolutionary, militant, socialist country. and the people of Albania China Gommemorates tenin's 96th Birthday Anniversary are a heroic people rvho have the courage to strLlggle for victory-,, iDEKING, Shanghai and more than life was one of a great proletarian The Chinese people, he added, I 20 other Chinese cities cornmem- revolutionary. He had spent it wags-ouJd for ever stand together rvith orated the. 96th anniversar-rz of ing vigorous struggles against impethe Albanian people, rvith the Lenin's birthday (April 22) '.L,ith va- rialism, and against all kinds of revolutionary people of the r,vorld rious forms of activities. Display reactionaries and opportunists. rvindows along stleets shonred photoand carry the struggie againsi im- graphs and pictures of Lenin's iife "Russia is the native land of Leninperialism and modern revisionism uncier the title "Lenin, the Great ism. After Stalin's death, the C.P.S.U. a-nd the reactionaries of all countries Teacher of Revolution," peking Ieaders headed by Khrushchov had through to the end. newspapers published photographs taken the path of betraying Lenin ancl iniormation on Lenin's iife, and and Leninism and have turr-red ihe Tonzonio's Notionol Doy radio aad television presenteC musical leadership of the C.P.S.U. into the pageants in his honour. centre of modern revisionism. How- Chairman Liu Shao-chi and pre- ever. over 90 per cent of the people mier Chou En-lai sent a joint mes- On the evening of April 22 the of the rvorld are for revolution, and sage on April 25 to President Julius national and Peking municipai over 90 per cent of the Conmu- K. Nyerere congratulating him on Sino-Soviet Friendship Associations nists \r'ill march along t1-re path of Tanzania's Nationai Day. marhed the occasion with a showing Marxism-Leninism. )Iarxism-Leninof the film Lenin in October. ism and Mao Tse-tung's thinking In Peking, Tanzanian Ambassador Waziri Juma gave a reception on Renntin Ribao that day devoted will triumph and the imperialists, April 26 to celeb,rate the occasion. neariy half a page to photographs on revisionists and all reactionaries will Among the guests present u,ere Vice- I.enin's life. It pointed out that his be defeated," Renmin.Ribao declared. Premiers Chen Yi and Tan Chen-Iln, Vice-Chairman of the Standing Conmittee of the National people,s Congress Lin Feng and other leading Vice-Premier Chen Yi stressed: headed by the United States and to "The African people are against 'ur,'in and safeguard their national members of government departments, imperialism; they are for'revoiution independence, until they win final the Chinese People's Liberation and ccmplete liberation. This is the victory," Vice-Premier Chen Yi Army and people's organizations. main current in the development of said. Ambassador Waziri Juma in his the present situation in Africa. By speech that evening condemned the its evil practices, imperialism may Vice-Premier Li Hsien-nien cclcnialists and imperia)isls rvho stir up a counter-revolutionary ad- \,vere opposed to the progress of verse current for a time, but it can Visits Cnmbodio Africa. FIe pointed out that,,the never block the advance of the At the invitation of the Royal Camdying horse of colonialism is being African people's anti-imperialist rev- bodian Government, Li Hsien-nien, expcsed to an unprecedented degree olutionary cause. It will only fur-ther Vice-Premier of the State Council of in many places in Africa,, and that enhance the political consciousness the People's Republic of China, ac- Tanzania u.i11 "continue to give as_ of the African people and enable companied b5r Wang Tao-han, Vicesistance to the nationalists in the thern to unite sti1l more closely in Minister of the Commission for Ecovarious colonies rvho are struggling u'ag;ng.stluggles. Despite difficul- nomic Relations with Foreign Counagainst foreLgn domination and co1_ ties cf one kind or another that may tries, arrived in Phnom Penh by onialist oppr,ession.', He stresse.d that special plane on April 24 for a Tanzania had realized that the crop up on their road of advance. the friendly visit. He was warmly welg::owth of the economy must depend daily au'akening African people s.iil comed bv Vice-Premier and Co-ordiupon the efforts of the people them_ certainly be able to carry through to nation-Minister of Economic Affairs, selves and that the people of Tanza_ the end their cause of solidarity Finance and Planning Son Sann and nia were determined to become the against imperialism, drive all forces other leading Cambodian officials. master of their orvn house. of imperialism, eolonialism, and neo- The Chinese visitors after being In his speech, Vice-premier Chen coloniallsm out of Africa, and win presented with flowers by Cambodian Yi poinled out that the Afi.ican peo_ the tholough liberation of the gir)s revie,"ved a guard of honour- and ple had u,.on great victories in their African continent." then walked past ranks of chee.ring anti-imper.ialist revoli-rtionary strug_ "The Chinese people have ailvays Royal Khmer Socialist youth gle which is developing in greater stood by the African people r,n:ho are members. depth. But, as facts have further persevering in the anti-impelialist Vice-Premier Li left Peking on sho'nrn, "imperialism u,ill not quit levolutionary struggle. We firmly Aprii 21. He was seen off at the airunless it is driven out and that it support the African peoples in their port by Vice-Premiers Po I-po and will not fail unless it is struck just struggle to oppose imperialism, Hsieh Fu-chih and leading ollicials down." colonialism and neo-colonialism of government departments. Peking Reaiew, No. 18 === [PDF page 5] === Hold High the Great Red Banner of ilao Tse-tung'$ Thinking; Actiuely Participate in the Great $ocialist Cultural ReYolution Follotaing i.s a translation of a "Jiefangjltn B&o" and Chairman Mao,'is the most lol-a1 tool of the Party (Liberation Army Daity) editorial, of April 18.-Ed. and the people, and the mainstal- of our proletarian dictatorship. It has alrray's play-ed an important role (THAIRMAN Mao Tse-tung has taught us that classes in the revolutionarv cause of the proletariat, and it v and class struggle still exist in socialist society. shouLd continue to do so in this greai socialist cultural Chairman Mao has said that i.n China "the class struggle revolution- B-e must acquire a deeper understanding between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, the class of the ciass stmggle in the ideological field. We must tostruggle between the different political forces. and the gether with all the people of our country raise high the class struggle in the ideological field betn-een the pro- great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thinking and unletariat and the bourgeoisie tvil.l continue to be long and swervingly carry the socialist cultural revolution through tortuous and at times r,l.ill even become very acute.', to the end and make the literary and art work of The struggl.e to uphold the proletarian ideology and to our armed forces play a great role in putting politics eradicate the bourgeois ideology on the cultural front first and in promoting the revolutionization of the is an important aspect of the class struggle between people. two classes (the proletariat and the bourgeoisie), between two roads (the socialist road and the capitalist There Exists Shorp Closs Struggle on the road) and between two ideologies (the proletarian ide- Culturol Front ology and the bourgeois ideology). The proletariat seeks to change the world according to its world outlook, and The past 16 years have witnessed a sharp class so does the bourgeoisie. Socialist culture should serve struggle on the cultural front. the workers, peasants and soldiers, should serve proletarian politics, should serve the consolidation and devel- In both stages of our revolution, the new democratic stage and the socialist stage, there has existed a opment of the socialist system and its gradual transition struggle betvu'een tr,r'o classes and tr,vo lines on the culto communism. Bourgeois and revisionist cuLture serves turai front, i.e.. the struggle between the proletariat the bourgeoisie. Iandlords, rich peasants, counter-revoand the bourgeoisie for leadership on this front. In the lutionaries, bad elements and Rightists, to prepare the history of our Party, the struggles against "Left" and way for the return of capitalism. If the proletariat Right opportunism aiso included struggles between the does not occupy the cultural position, it is bound to be tlvo lines on the cultural {ront. occupied by the bourgeoisie. This is a sharp class struggle. Since the remnant forces of the bourgeoisie in our Wang Ming's line was a bourgeois trend which once country still remain a factor to be reckoned with, since played havoc within our Party. In the rectification rve still have a fairly large number of bourgeois intel- movement which started in 1942, Chairman Mao first lectuals, and since the infiuence of bourgeois ideology gave a thorough theoretical refutation of Wang Ming's is still fairly strong and their methods of fighting us political, military and organizational lines, immediately have become increasingly insidious, indirect and under- following this up with a thorough theoretical refutation hand, we shall find it difficult to see the struggie that of the cultural line represented by War-rg l./Iing. Chairis going on and may falI victim to the sugar-coated man Mao's On New Democracy and?olks at th.e Yenan bullets of the bourgeoisie or we may even lose our posi* Forum on Literature and Art are the most complete, the tion, if we slacken our vigilance or relax in the least. mcst comprehensive and the most systematic historical In this respect, the isSue of which will win, socialisrn summaries of this struggle betryeen the two lines on the or capitalism, is not yet settled. The struggle is inevit- cultural front; they carry on and develop the Marxistabie. Failure to handie it properly may give rise to Leninist r.+'orld outlook and theory on liierature and art. revisionism. After our revolution entered the sociaiist stage, a Our People's Liberation Arrny, the people's armed series of important struggles on the cultural front was forces created and 1ed by the Chinese Communist Party waged under the direct leadership of the Central Com- April 29, 1966 === [PDF page 6] === mittee of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman even go so t'ar as to prettify hin-r. Then there are other Mac Tse-tung. struggles such as the criticism of ra,'orks concerned onty with love and romance. pandering the film Life of Wu Hsun, the criticisr-n of the book to low tastc-s, claiming that "love" and "death" are Studies on the "Dream of the Red Chamber," the strug- eternal themes. A11 such bourgeois, revisionist ti"ash gle against the Hu Feng counter-revolutionary clique, must be resolutely opposed. the strr,rggle against the Rightists, as well as the great The struggle between the two lines on the literary sociaList cultural revolution of the last three years. and art front in the society, is bound to be reflected in the Chairman Mao's trno works An the Correct Handling ar'med forces, for these do not exist in a vacuum ar:d of Contradictions Among the People and Speech at the cannot be an exception to the rule. Our armed forces Chinese Communist Party's National Conf erence on are the chief instrument of the proletarian dictator-ship. Propaganda Work are the most recent sulnmaries of the Without the people's armed forces Ied by the Party our historical experience of the movements for revolutionary revclution could not have triumphed, there could be ideology and litera,ture and art in China and other no proletarian dictatorship or socialism, and the people couirtries; the;, represent a nelv development of the r.rould have gained nothing. Inevitabl;r, then, the enemy Marxist-Leninist world outlook and theory on iitera- r.,'ould tr-w b;- every means to sabotage us from all sides; ture and art. and inevitably they u'ould use art and }iterature as a These four brilliant rvorks form an important part weapon to corrupt us. We mr,rst be very much on our of the great thinking of Mao Tse-tung; they represent guard against this. Hor*'ever. not everybody shares this the highest peak of today's Marxist-Leninist world out- view. Some claim that the problem of the direction look and theory on literature and art; they are the of literature and art in our armed forces is already rupreme guide for our work of iiterature and art, enough solrred, that what remains is mainly the problem of to serve our proletariat for a long time, raising our artistic level. This mistakgn view is most pernicious and is not based on concrete analysis. In In the t6 years since the foundilrg o[ our People's fact, some of the literature and art of our armed forces Republic, there exists in our literary and art circles ar:r are taking the right direction and have reached a comanti-Party, anti-socialist black line running counter to paratively high artistic 1evel; some are taking the right Mao Tse-tung's thinking. This black line is a conglomer- diiection but the artistic level is 1ow; some have serious ation of bcurgeois and moder-n revisionist ideas on lit- defects or mistakes in both the political orientation and erature and art, and o{ s'hat is called the literature and artistic form; and some are simply anti-Party, anti-soart of the 1930s. These viervs are represented by such cialist poisonous weeds. During the great upheavals in theories as those of "truthful writing," "the wide path the class struggles cn the llterary and art front since of realism," "the deepening of realism," "middle charac- liberation, some litelary and art rvorkers in the army ters," "compounding the spilit of the age," and of op- have failed to pass the test, committing minor ol serious position to "subject matter as the decisive factor" and nristakes. This shaws that the literary and art work in oppcsition to "rvhai smells of gunpowder." Most of these the armed forces has also been lnfluenced to a greater ideas have been repudiated in Chairman Mao's?ollrs or lesser degree by the anti-Party, anti-socialist black st the Yenan Forum on Literatu,re and, Art. In the field line. We must in aceordance with the instructions of the of fiims there are people who advocate "discarding the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Chau'- ciassics and reb,elling against orthodoxy," in other words man Mao Tse-tung, take an active part in the great discarding the "ciassics" of Marxism-l,eninism and Mao socialist revolution on the cultural front, thoroughly Tse-tung's thinking and rebelling agaii-rst the "ortho- eradicate this black line and completely liquidate its indoxy" of the people's revolutionary war. This leaction- fluence on the armed forces. After we are rid of this ary bourgeois and modern revisionist trend has influ.- b,iack line others may appear, and the struggle must go enced or controlled much of our ]iterature and art so cn. This is an arduous, coniplex, long-term struggle that when we look at post-liberation works about the *,hlch r+'iil take dozens of years, perhaps centuries. It people's war, the people's armed forces and other mili- is vital for the revolutionizing of our armed forces, for tary subjects, we find only a small number of good or the future of our revolution and for the future of the basically sound works truly praising our revolutionary rrorld revolution that we unswervingly carry the great heroes, serving the workers, peasants and soldiers, and socialist cultural revolution through to the end. serving socialism; many rvorks are somewhere in the middle; while some are anti-Party, anti-socialist poison- A New Phqse in the Grect Culturo! Reuolution ous weeds. Some works distort the historical facts, Since September 1962, when Chairman Mao at the eoncentrating on the portrayal of erroneous lines instead Tenth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the eorrect lines; some describe heroic characters who violate discipline, or create heroes only to make of the Party called upon the whole Party and the entire Chinese people never to forget clasies and class strugthem die in an artificially tragic ending. Some v,,orks gle, the struggle to uphold the proletarian ideoiogy and do not present heroic characters but only "middle" eradicate the bourgeois ideoiogy on the cultural fi'ont characters who are actuaily backward, vilifyiirg the has further developed. image of the workers, peasants and soldiers; in depicting the enemy, they fail to expose the class nature of the The last three years have seen a new phase in the enemy as exploiter and oppressor of the people, and great soeialist cultural revolution. The most outstanding 6 Peking Reoiew, No. i8 === [PDF page 7] === exarnple of this is the emergence of peking operas on of the armi:d forces, to Serve the cause of uphoiding revolutionary, contemporary themes. Those working proletarian ideology and eradicating bourgeois ideology, to reform Peking opera, ted by the Central Con-rmit- consolidating and imptoving the f ighting strength." tee of the Party and Chairman Mao and armed lvith &Iost of our literary and art 'nvorker.s in the armed forces Marxism-Leninism and Mao Tse-tung,s thinking, have have put politics first, have creatively studied and ap* launched a heroic and tenacious offensive against the plied ihe works of Chairman Mao, lived with the basic Iiterature and art of feudai class. bourgeoisie and mod- armed units or in the countryside and factories, taken an ern revisionism. This attack has radically revolutionized active part in the socialist education movement, linked Peking opera, formerly the most stubborn stronghold, theinseives with the workers, peasants and soldiers, both in ideological content and artistic form, and this has further steeled themselves and remouided their ideology, started a levolutionary change in literary and art circles. and raised their level of proletarian consciousness. As a Peking operas with revolutionary, contemporary themes result they have produced some good plays like On like?he Red Signal Lantern, Shachiapang, Capturing Guard Beneath the Neon Lights, excellent novels like the Tiger Mountain and. Raid on the White Tiger Soag oJ Ougang Hai, and some fairly good reportage, Regiment, the ballet Red. Detachment of Women, the soldiers' songs, music, dances and works of fine art. A symphony Shachiapang and the sculptures Compound. nurnber of promising writers have emerged. Where Rent Was Co\lected. have all won favour with the broad masses of workers, peasants and soldiers, Of course, these are rnerely the first fruits of our and enthusiastically. acclaimed b1, Chinese and foreign socialist cultural revolution. the first step in a long audiences. This unprecedented achievement rvi]l have march of ten thousand li. In order to safeguard and a profound, far-reaching imoact on our socialist cultural improve on this achierernent. tc cairl' the socialist revolution. It effectivelJ- proves that even the rno-si cu-:ulal revoiution on to the end. \re rnust go all out stubborn stronghold. Peking opera. can be taken b5 fo: a long pedod of time- The t::erary and art r*-orkers storm and revolutionized. that foreign classical art of our armed forces must do their best to make a forms like the ballet, syrnphonic musie and sculpture u,orthy contribution. can also be remoulded to serve our purpose; and this Uphold Whot ls New should give us even rxore confidence in revolutionizing other forms of art. At the same time these successes ls Distinctive - Sociolism, Estoblish Whot The Proletoriot, Produce Good deal a powerful blow at various conservatives and at - Models such views as the "box-office value" theory, the "foreign clrrrency value" theory and the theory that "revolu- To create a new socialist iiterature and art. we must produce good models, and leading comrades must tionary works cannot go abroad." see to this themselves. Only when we have good, Another outstanding feature of the great socialist models and successful esperience in producing them cultural revoiution in the past three years is the wide- will our arguments prove convincing, and wiil we be spread mass activities of workers, peasants and soldiers abl.e to consolidate the position u,e have oecupied. on the ideological, literary and art fronts. Workers. V/e should have the courage to blaze nevr trails, to peasants and soldiers are now writing many fine uphold what is new socialism, and to establish u'hat philosophical articles which express Mao Tse-tung's - is distinctive-the proletariat. The basic task of sothinkilrg in a practical way; they are also producing cialist literature and art is to strive to create heroic many fine u,orks of literature and art to praise the char-acters of workers, peasants and soldiers armed great victory in our socialist revolution, the big leap w-ith Mao Tse-tung's thinking. Chairman Mao has pointfonvard on various fronts of our soeialist construction, ed out: "If you are a bourgeois tvriter or artist, you will our nervi' heroic characters, and the brilliant leadership eulogize not the prcletariat but the bourgeoisie, and if t of our great Party and our great ieader Chairman l\{ao. you are a proletarian '"t,riter or artist. you vrill eulogize l, The flood o{ poems by workers. peasants and sotrcliers not' the bourgeoisie b'rrt the proietariat and working peowhich appears on wa1l-newspapers and blackboard pie: it must tre one or the other." So the class struggle ner,r,s, is especially noteworthy as both in content and betrveen the proletaliat and the bourgeoisie on the literi form these poems represent an entirely new age.. ar-'- and art front centres on which class to eulogize, i During these few years there have beea very r,vhich class to portray heroes from, and men of which healthy developments in the cultural work of our armed class to plaee in the ruling position in 'rvorks of literaforces too. Since Comrade Lin Piao took charge of the ture and art. Here lies the demarcation line between the affairs of the Military Commission of the Central literature and art of different classes. Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, he has The fine qualities of the heroic characters who paid great attention to literary and art work and given have appeared among the workers. p€asants and soldiers us many important instructions. The Resolution on nurtured by Mac Tse-tung's thinking are the epitome Strengthening Politieal and Ideological Work in the of the proletarian class character. We shoul.d go all Armed Forces passed at the enlarged meeting of the out to create heroic images of workers, peasants and lVlilitary Commission in 1960, clearly specifies that soldiers. We should create types and not restrict ourliterar5r and art work in the arrned forces "must be selyes to real persons and real events. Chairman Mao closely linked w,ith the tasks and ideological situation has said: "Life as reflected in works of literature and April 29, 1966 === [PDF page 8] === art car"r and ought to be on a higher plane, more in- systematic tvay, and by so doing to train a backbone tense, more concentrated, more typical, nearer the ideal, force of truly proletarian u,riters and artists. and therefore more universal than actual everyday life." This means that our rnrriters must concentrate and sum Emcncipote the Mind, Overcome Superstition up material from iife accumulated over a long period to create various kinds of typical characters. The socialist cultural revoiution must overthrow certain things and estabiish others; for if certain things To create heroic characters successflllly, we must ale not tholoughly ol,erthrourn, others cannot be truly adopi the methcd of combining revolutionary realism estabiished. To carry out the socialist cultural revolurvith revolutionary romanticism, not the critical::ealism tion and create a new socialist literature and art, ll,e and romanticism of the, bourgeoisie. must emancipate our minds and overcome superstition. Writers in the armed forces should make it their We must overccme our superstitious reverence fol glorious task to depict revolutionary \,vars, propagate what is called the literature and art of the 30s. At tha":; Chairman Mao's idea of the people's war, and ereate time the Left-rving literary and art movement follou,ecl heroic characters in revolu-tionary wars. When we in politics Wang XIing's "LeIt" opportunist line; organlvrite about revolutionary wars, we must first be clear izationally it praetised closed-doorism and sectarianism; about the nature of the war-ours is the just side, and its theory of literature and art was virtual.ly that of the enemy's is the unjust side. Our works must shor,v such Russian bcurgeois literary critics as Belir-rsky, our ar:duous struggle and heroic sacrifice, but must also Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, bourgeois democrats display revolutionary heroism and revolutionary opti- of tsarist Russia who had bourgeois, not Marist, ideas. mism. Whiie depicting the cruelty of war, vre should The bourgeois-dernocratic revolution is one in which not elaborate on the horrors of war. While depicting one exploiting class opposes another. Only the socialist the arduousness of the revolutionary struggle, \ ze revolution of the proletariat is the revolution that finally should not elaborate on its sufferings. The cruelty of destroys all exploiting classes. So we must not take the a revolutionary \\rar and revolutionary heroism, the ideas of any bourgeois revolutionary as our guidlng prinarduousness of the revolutionar-1' struggle and ret olu- ciple in our proletarian ideclcgical or literary and ari tionary opiimism are the unitl' of opposiies. but.se mcvements. There rvas good literature and art in the rnust Lre clear rvhich is the principal aspect of the con- 30s too. that \\'as the militant Left-u,ing literary tradiction; othenvise. ii we put the emphasis rvrongly. and ari movement 1ed by Lu Hsun. But tor,l,ards the the lrend of bourgeois pacifism may arise. While depict- end of the 30s some Left-rving leaders, in{luenced ing the people's revolutionary war, whether it is pri- by Wang Ming's Rightist capitulationist line, abandoned marily guerilla warfare supplemented by mobiie war- the class standpoint of Marxism-Leninism, and put fare, or whether it is primarily mobile warfare, we must forward the slogan of "national defence literature." correctly show the relationship between the regular That was a bourgeois slogan. It rx,as Lu Hsun who put forces, the guerrillas and the people's militia, the rela- forward the proletarian slogan, "Popular litelature of tionship b,etlveen the armed masses and the unarmed the national revolutionary war.'' Some Left-wing writers masses under the leadership of the Parly. and artists, notably Lu Hsun, also advocated that art and literature should serve the workers and peasants It is no easy matter to produce good models of and that worker-s and peasants should create their or,vn proletarian literature and art. Strategicaily u,'e must literature and art. However, no systematic sohrtion lvas despise this task, but tactically \^/e must take it found for the basic problem of how to iirtegrate literaseriously. To create a fine work is an arduous process, ture and art with the r,.',orkers, peasants and soidiers; and the comrades in charge of this work must never because the great majority of these men were follorvers adopt a bureaucratic or casual attitude towards it but of bcurgeois nationalism and democl'acy, some oI rvl:cm must work hard, sharing the satisfactions and hardships failed to pass the test of the democratic revolution, of the lvriters. They must as iar as possible get their v;hile others have not given a good account of themmaterial first hand. They must not be afraid of failure selves in the test of socialism. or of mistakes. They should allow for failure and mis- We must overcome blind reverence for Chinese and takes and 1et people correct their mistakes. They must rely on the masses, get the opinions of the masses and foreign classica] literature. The classical art and literarefer back to the masses, undergoing repeated practice ture of China and those of Europe (including Russia) have exercised a considerable influence on literary and over a long period to make the work better and better, and striving to integrate a revolutionary politicai. art circles in our country, and some people looked on content with the best possible artistic form. In the them as models and aceepted them in their entirety. course of practice they must sum up their experience But Chairman 1\4ao has taught us that "Uncritical in good time, gradually grasping the law-s of various transplantation or copying from the ancients and the forms of art. Otherrvise they rviil fail to produce goocl foreigners is the most sterile and harmful dogmatism models. in literature and art." Things belonging to the ancients and to foreigners should be studied too, and refusal There are many important revolutionary historical to do this l+,ould be wrong; but r,ve must do so criticallv, themes and contemporary themes whieh urgen'i1y re- making the old serve the pi'esent and foreign things quire us to organize their portrayal in a platrued, serve China. 8 Peki,ng Reuieu;, lVo. 18 === [PDF page 9] === As for the relatively good Soviet revolutionary works. In the theoretical field, mistaken views on literature and art which appeared after the October ]iterature and art v,'hich are fairly typical must be Revolution, that too must be analysed and not blindly thoroughly and systematically crlticized. We must worshipped or, still less, blindly imitated. Biind imita- not mind being blamed for "brandishing the stick." tlon can never beccme art. Literature and art can only When some people accuse us of roughness and crudity come from life 'which is their sole source. This is u'e must make our o-,1.n analysis. Some criticisms we proved by the r,vhole history of ancient and modern make are basically correct but are not convincing art and literature, both Chinese and foreign. enough because their analysis is inadequate and they produce too little evidence. This should be corrected. Prcctise Democrotic Centrolism, Some people who start by accusing us of being rough Toke the Moss Line and crude drop the charge rn'hen they gain a better understanding. But vrhen the enemy condemns our All leading personnel of literaly and art work as -wel1 correct criticisms as rough and crude, we must as artists and writers must practise democratic central- stand firm. We must have regular art and literary ism, support the practice of "letting ail people have ci'iticism, because this is an important method of their say" and oppose the practice of "what I say \l,aging the struggie in the literary and art field and counts." We must take the mass line and keep putting an important rvay for the Party to lead literature and politics first. In the past, rvriters sometimes produced ar't. Without ccrrect literary and art criticism we cana piece of work and, turning a deaf ear to the opinions of not rnaintain a cclrec't line in literature and art, or the masses, forced the leadership to nod in approval. proCuce a greater variet--v of gooC rvork. This way of doing things is very bad. The cadres in charge of literature and art should ahva-v*s bear in mind Use Moo Tse-tung's Thinking to Re-Educote Codres these two polnts in dealing r.r,ith creative rrork in litera- And Reorgonize the Ronks of Writers ond Artists To carry cut a thoroughgoing socialist cuitural those which revoiution we must re-educate the cadres in charge of ale right and rejecting those which are wrong, There literature and art and rerorganize the ranks of writers are no perfect works of art and literature, but if one and artists. As far back as during the struggle on the is fundamentally good we should pcint out its short- Chingkang Mcuntains, rinder the direct leadership of comings and errors so that they can be corrected. Bad Chairman l\{ao and the brilliant guidance of the resoluworks should not be hidden away, but brought out for tions of the Kutien Conference, the Workers' and Peasthe appraisal of the masses. We rnust not be afraid of a-nts' Red Army set up a red contingent of writers and the rnasses but should have firm faith in them, for they artists. During the War of Resistance to Japanese,Agcan give us much vaiuable advice. And they will help gression, as our Party and army gained in political and those whose ideas are eonfused to impi'ove their pov;ers nrilitary sti:ength, our ccntingent of rvriters and artists of discrimination. ir::.ade great headu,ay too. In the base areas and in the armed fcrces. lr.e trained a ccnsiderabie number of ret'o- Advocote Revolutionory, Mil;tcnt, Mcss Criticism of ir.iiicnarf iite:'ar5 and al'i rrclkers. Especiaily after the Lil.erature ond A.rt p:-15,1caticn ci the?olks ct the Yenan Forum on Literat:.tre and. Art. the;- heLd to the correct line. integrated We must arivccate re.,'olutionail-. nilita.nt. mass ihemselves rrith the t,'orkers, peasants and soldiers- and criticism cf literature and art, break the moncpoly of played a positive role in the revolution. But after literary and art criticism by a feu' "critics" (those ihe liberation of the whole mainland, when we entered gcing in a wrong direction and w-hose argurnents are 1it::ge cities, some people were unable to resist the w.eak). We must place the weapon of literary and art corrupting intluence of bcurgeois ideas, with the restilt cri.ticism in the hands of the masses of r,vorkers, that they d.ropped behind our advance. And the peasants and soldiers, inlegrating professional critics literary and art vzorkers who joined the army at this and critics frcm among the rnasses. We rnust make iime brougirt with then: the influence of various bourj 1,i:is criticism more militant, comirating unprincipled geois views on literature and art. A small number of vulgar praise. We must reform our style of rvriting, then.i were never remou.lded at all, but clung stubencourage the writing of short. readable article-q, trans- 'i:ornly to the bourgeois stand. form our literarv and art criticism into daggers and hand-grenades and learn to handle them effectively in O,rr art anci literature are a proletarian art and 200-metre close combat. Of course \ve must at the liter;rture, an art and literatu.r'e of the Party. What same time write scme longer, systernatic articles of distingu-ishes us above all from other classes is the pringreater theoretical depth. We must present the facts ciple of the proletarian Party spirit. We should realize and reason things out, not use jargon io frighten peo- that the spokesmen of other classes also have their prinple. This is the only r,l'ay to disarm those so-called ciple of Party spirit, and a very strong one too. In our "literary and art critics." Critics mr-rst give warm sup- guiding principles governing creative writing, just as in polt to lvorks which are gccd or fundamentally sor-ind, our organizatlonal iine and in our style of work, we must w'hi1e pointing out their shortcomings in a heipful ai:,ide firml;r by the principle of the proletarian Party rna.nner. And principled criticism mrtst be made of bad spiri.t a.nd. combat corruption by bourgeois ideas. We Ay:ril 29, 1966 === [PDF page 10] === must clearly draw a line betrveen us and bourgeois ideas; thinking, our life and our professional skills. Only so we must never tolerate any peaceful coexlstence with can our literary and art work better serve the w'orkthem. ers. peasants and soldiers, serve socialism, and help to consolidate and raise the fighting strength of our armed The titerary and art r,rrorkers in our armed forces forces. ha,-e various problems, but for the mbjority of them, the question is to acquire a deeper understanding and A ne',r,' upsurge of the great socialist cultural revto receive more education and to attain a higher level. olution has taken shape and is now assuming the form \&e must regard Chairman Mao's rvritings as our highest of a mass movement. This great revolutionary tide will instructions, seriously study and grasp his teachings on wash away the filth of all the old bourgeois ideas on art and literature, and pay special attention to putting literature and art, ushering in a new epoch of socialist, them into praetice and creatively applying what we proletarian art and literature. Confronted with this learn lo our thinking and actions, so that w-e really excellent revolutionary situation, we should be pr:oud master Chairman Mao's thinking. We must carry out to be thoroughgoing revolutionaries. Our socialist Chairman Mao's instruction and "for a long period of revolution is a revolution to eliminate exploiting classes time unreservedly and wholeheartedly go among the and all systems of exploitation once and for all, masses of workers, peasants and soldiers, go into the to root out all the ideas of the exploiting classes which heat of the struggle, go to the only source. the broadest are injurious to the people. We must have the confiand richest source," to integral,e ourselves with the dence and courage to do things never previousiy u'orkers, peasants and soldiers. remould our thinking, attempted. We must raise still higher the great red raise the level of our political consciousness and whole- banner of Mao Tse-tung's thinking and, under the heartedly serve the peopie of ali China and the whole leadership of the Central Committee of the Party, Chairr,r,orld, with no thought of fame or profit. unafraid of man Mao and the Military Commissioi-r of the Party's hardships or death. We must make it our life-time Central Committee, take an active part in the socialist endeavour to study Chairman Mao's works, work for cultural revolution, unswervingly carrying it thrcugh the revolution and remould our thinking. Only so can to the end, striving to create a new sociaiist literature we carry out Comrade Lin Piao's instructions and be and art u-orth1- of our great country. our great Party, ready to pass any stiff test u'ith flying colours in our our great people anci our great arm;:. J,e r ik BEIVMIN RIBAO A Moior Victory for Chino's Foreign Policy of Peoce - Welcome Choirmqn Liu Horne From l-lis Yisits Abrocd - /r-\HAIRNIAN Liu Shao-chi, accompanied by Vice- cause of Asian solidarity against imperialism and pret-r Pr"*ier Chen Yi, has returned to Kunming after serving peace in Asia and the world. his successful visits to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Burma. The great achievements o[ Chairman Liu's tour With great enthusiasm, the Chinese people warmly con- represent yet another major victory for China's foreign gratulate Chairman Liu on the great achievements of policy of peace. his recent visits and wholeheartedly welcome him home from his successful tour. It goes without saying that China's social system is different from that of the nationalist countries of Asia and Africa. But this difference cannot negate the Fqr-Reoching lnfluence fact that we share the sarne experiences and have Pakistan, Afghanistan and Burma are China's close common aspirations and demands. That is why with neighbours. Profound traditional friendship has long the exception of only a few countries in which reacexisted between the peoples of the three countries and tionary nationalists are in power, China can unite and the Chinese people. Chairman Liu's just concluded co-operate with the Asian and African countries and tour has further cemented China's relations of friend- live rvith them on friendly terms. Our relations with ship and co-operation rvith its close neighbours and Pakistan, Afghanistan and Burma are noteworthy exenhanced the friendship existing bet,"l,'een the Chinese ampi,es. people and other Asian peopies. It u'ill exert a far- Since the very day of its birth, the People's Rereaching influence on reinforcing and cleveioping the public of China has steadfastl5, pursu,ed the socialist 1-0 Peking Reuieu, No. 18 === [PDF page 11] === foreign policy of peace. This policy is clearly defined of various peoples. Let us tell them frankly: whoever in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. they are-the U.S. imperiaiists or any other impe- In 1954, the Chinese Government initiated the famous rialists, the Indian expansionists or the reactionaries of Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. In 1g55. on any other country so Long as they commit aggression the basis of the Five Principles, China and the Afro- or engage in any -other criminal activities against the Asian countries represented at the Bandung Conference people, the Chinese people r,vill unhesitatingly stand on jointly worked out the Ten,Principles. In 1963, China the side of those countries who are victims of aggresformulated the {ive principles guiding its re}ations with sion and on the side of those peoples fighting {or a the African and Arab countries. In 1964, it set forth just cause, and firmly support them. Whatever the its eight principles in extending aid to foreign countries. risks and pressures, China will under no circumstances Our relati.ons with Asian and A{rican countries have change this stand. always been guicied by the principles mentioned above. U.S. imperialism and its followers also spare no Support ls Alwoys Mutuol effort in sowing discord between the Afro-Asian countries and China in an attempt to "isolate" China. This, China stands firm for the equatity of all nations, too, is a vaih attempt. The broad masses of the people big and small. It opposes the oppression of the smaller in Afro-Asian countr'ies want to preserve their innations by the bigger. It opposes the manipulation of dependence and sovereignty, to continue to eradicate international affairs by a few big powers. It opposes the remnant imperialist forces and to deve).op their big-nation chauvinism in all its manifestations. China national economies and culture. This universal demand has never intervened in the internal affairs of other of the Afro-Asian peoples reflects the inevitable trend countries. Under no circumstances rvill it impose its of historical development r,,,hich cannot be checked by views upon others, for it believes that the affairs of any force. The people of the independent Asian and any country should be and can only be decided by its African countries will never agree that their homeland own people. China maintains that in their struggles again be reduced to a colon5r or a semi-co1ony. China's a"gainst imperialist aggression and for upholding na- foreign policy of peace is fully in keeping rvith this tional independence and sovereignty' and defending trend of historical development and accords with the peace in Asia and Africa and the r,vhole world, the fundamental interests of the Afro-Asian countries and people of different countries always support each other. peoples. Since the Chinese people have cast their 1ot' In supporting the just struggles of other peoples, China with the Asian and African peopies, how can U.S. imis onl;z fulfilling its internationaiist obligatior-r and will perialism "isolate" China? As a matter of fact, it is never ask for any leu,ard from others. On the othet- U.S. imperialisrn, not China, r,vhich is being isolated in hand. we regard the just struggles of other- peoples as Asia and Aflica. an impoltant support for China. a support trhich cannot be calculated by weights and measures. In the economic - A Poper "Cordon" fuound Chino Woll field, China also does everything.in its power to extend aid to-Afro-Asian countries. We n-ever regard such For wel}over 10 years, U.S. imperialism has been aid as a kind of unilateral a1ms, because it is reciprocal building a "crescent cordon" arouhcl China. Actually, and beneficial to both parties. These principles guiding this "cordon" is no more.than a paper wall. Politically, China's relations with the Afr:o-Asian and other coun- it cannot contain the tremendous influence of China's tries have won the approval and weleome of aII peoples. foreign policy of peace, nor can it play any significant role militarily. This "eordon" is, in fact, a noose that During Chairman Liu'g tour, the goverirments, U.S..imperiali.srn has put around its ou,n neck. peoples and pubiie opinion of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Burma have highiy appraised China's foreign policy The grand and warm welcome which Chairman of peace. The warm welcome accorded him in these Liu Shao-chi received in Pakistan, Afghanistan and three friendly neighbouring countries forcefully proves Burma is anolher testimony to China's foreign policy that the friendship betrveen the Chinese and Afro- of peace. It proves that China's foreign policy is fully Asian peoples has a solid foundation. correct. The adversc anti-China culrent which the For a long time, the imperialists headed by the imperiaiists, modern revisionists and reactionaries of Uniied States and the reactionalies of all countries have all countries recently have gone all out to stir up has tried hard to disrupt the friendly relations between not hurt China a whit. The fact remains that China China and the Afro-Asian countries and undermine the has friends all over the w-orId. The friendship between profound friendship between the Chinese and Afro- the Chinese people and the Afro-Asian and all other Asian peoples. Facts have proved and will continue to peoples of the world u,ill be consolidated and developed prove that their attempts cannot possibly succeed. further. The Chinese people wi1l, as they did in the past, unite with the Afro-Asian and all other peoples U.S. imperialism and its follorn'ers vilify China as being "bellicose." They do so in order to distort the of the world, and resolutely carry through to the end image of China. r.vhich follorvs a foreign policy of peace, the struggle against the U.S. imperialist policies of aggression and war and for peace in Asia and Africa in the minds of the people of the '"vorld. The only and the whole world. "ground" they can find to support their charge is that the Chinese people resolutely support the just struggtres ("Remmin Ribaa" ed,itorml, April 21.) Ap,ri,l 29, 7966 11 === [PDF page 12] === Secretary-General Djawoto addresses the Peking rally celebrating the successful conclusion of the A.A.J,A. meeting and Afro-Asian Journalists' Day Militont Unity ol tournalists A.A.J.A. Secretoriot Meets in Peking by OUR CORBESPONDENT rFHE 4th Plenary Meeting (Enlarged) of thc Secretariat States, in order to regain or defend their national in- I of the Afro-Asian Journalists' Association which dependence and sovereignty." met in Peking concluded on a high note of common The resolution expressed full sympathy and comstruggle against U.S. imperialism and its lackeys and plete support for the four-point stand of the Governaccomplices. During the five-day meeting, deiegates ment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and ihe from 19 Afro-Asian countries and regions heard a gen- five-part statement of the South Vietnam National eral neport and a report on the A.A.J.A. Secretariat's Front for Liberation which, it declared, '"vas the only temporary withdrar,'"'al from Djakarta, both made by genuine representative of the south Vietnamese people. Secretary-Gener.al Djawoto (for communique and gen- It called on members of the A.A.J.A. and progreseral report, see pages 13 and 16). The meeting accepted sive and democratic journalists to make fu1l use of all the membership appiications of journalists' organiza- media of inf'ormation to expose the brutal crimes of tions from tr aos, the U.A.R.. the Congo (L), Palestine, U.S. aggression in Vietnam and make knor,vn to the Mozambique and otrerseas Koreans in Japan, thus in- w'orld the heroic struggle of the Vietnamese people and creasing the total of its member organizations from 47 the stand of the Democratie Republic of Vietnan and of to 53. the South Vietnam National Front for liberation. A series of political resoltitions adopted expressed u.nequivocal support for the just struggles waged by Resolution on lndonesis the peoples of the Afro-Asian countries against U.S.-led imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism. The resolution on Indonesia strongly condemned the crime perpetrated by the Suharto-Nasution fascist Resolution on Vietnqm Question legime. It voiced the strongest protest against the The resolution on the Vietnam question strcngly massacre of more than 300,000 and the imprisonment denounced U.S. imperialism's war of aggression in of rnore than 150,000 Indonesian patriots and democrats, Vietnam and its "peace talks" fraud. It declared: "The ineluding over 300 Indonesian ne!\rspaperrnen. struggle of the heroic Vietnamese people against U.S. Recent developments in Indonesia, the resolution lmper:aJism and for national salr.ation constitutes a pointed out, indicated that "scared by the mounting brilliant example, a source of confidence and pot,erful opposition of the Indonesian people against their antiencouragement to the Afro-Asian peoples and other people's and subversive activi.ties and the ever growing peoples of the tvorld rvho are opposing imperialism, united strenglh of the revolutionary forces, the reaccolonialism and neo-colonialism headed by the Uni.ted tionary generals have sold themselves to their U.S. 12 Peking Reuiew, No. 18 === [PDF page 13] === rf\HE Secretariat of the A.A.J.A. held its Fourth against U.S.-led imperialism and old and new colonial- I Plenary Meeting (Enlarged) in Peking lrom April 20 ism. The meeting also strongly denounced the persecuto 24, 1966. Attending the meeting were the delegations tion of progressive journalists by the imperialists and from 19 countries and areas, namely: Algeria, Azania reactionaries of various countries, (South Africa), Cambodia, Ceylon, China, the Congo After hearing the Secretary-General,s report on the (Leopoldville), Guinea, Indonesia, Japan, the Democratic A.A.J.A. Secretariat's temporary withdrawal from Dja- People's Republic of Korea, Mali, Mozambique, Palestine, karta, the meeting unanimously adopted a resolution Syria, Tanzania, the United Arab Republic, the Demo- supporting the decision on the temporary withdrawal cratic Republic of Vietnam, south Vietnam, (F.N.L.) from Djakarta, made in December 1965 by the secretaand Zimbabwe. The delegations of Pakistan and Zarn- riat's permanent secretaries, and expressed its thanks to bia, rvhich could not come, sent telegrams supporting the permanent secretaries for.their outstanding efforts in the meeting. continuing their work in accordance with the guiding The secretariat received a letter in support of the principles of the Djakarta Declaration and the A.A.J.A. meeting from Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Head of Constitution. State of Cambodia, expressing his understanding of the The meeting unanimously decided that the Second withdrawal of the secretariat from Djakarta and his Afro-Asian Journalists' Conference should be held in sympathy for the present meeting, and messages of Algiers rvithin one year. greetings from the journalists' organizations and na- The meeting unanimously decided that the t,orking tional-liberation movements of many countries. Mr. place of the A.A.J.A. Secretariat should be in Peking lYan Li, Vice-Mayor of Peking, attended the opening until the convocation of the Second Afro-Asian Jourceremony and addressed the meeting. On b,ehalf of nalists' Con{erence. the host country, he made a speech expressiirg his warm The meeting accepted the applications of the jourwelcome to the delegates and his greetings to the nalists' organizations of the Congo (L), overseas Koreans meeting. in Japan, Laos, Mozambique, Palestine and the U.A.R. The meeting heard a report by Mr. Djawoto, the for membership. Their delegates have accepted the Secretary-General. This was followed by thorough and Djakarta Declaration adopted at the first A.A.J.C. in warm discussions. 1963. The meeting adopted a series of politicai resolutions An atmosphere of friendship and co-operation, expressing unequivocal and firm support for the just q.hich fully.- demonstrated the militant unity of Afrostruggles heing lvaged by the people of Vietnam. the.{sian journalists, prevailed at the meeting from be- Congo (L), Palestine and other Afro-Asian countri.es ginning to end. masters. They aimed their attacks at destroying the Another document adopted by the meeting conrevolutionary, progressive forces, and at overthrow-ing demned the persecution, murder and imprisonment of the anti-imperialist Government of Indonesia led by progressive and revolutionary journalists by U.S.-ied h'esident Sukarno. Norv they have established a reac- imperialists and the fascist, military and racist regimes tionary regime in Indonesia n,hich is follor,ving readily in Indonesia, Ghana, south Vietnam, south Korea, in the wake of the U.S. imperialist policy. The event Zimbabwe, Aden and elsewhere in Asia and Africa. It of 30 September, 1965 was used as a mere pretext to appealed to all journalists to raise their voices against realize these vicious aims.... All this has established these crimes and mobilize the mass media to expose the indisputable fact that a cunningly and weil-prepared the reactionary nature of these regin-res. slow-but-surely-going coup d'etat of an extremel;r reac- Other resolutions adopted included those in support tionary and criminal nature has been staged by the of the Palestinian people's struggle against Israel, the U.S. imperialists and their lackeys." Congolese (L) peopie's struggle, the Malayan peopie's Expressing confidence that the Indonesian people's struggle to crush "Malaysia," the struggle of the people movement of resistance would grorv in momentum and and patriotic forces of Laos, the Kashmir people's become a rnighty force capable of changing the present struggle for their right to self-determination, the Japsituation. the resolution declared: "!Ve demand the anese people's struggle against U.S. imperialism and in-rmediate release of all democrats, inciuding the jour- Japanese reactionaries, Cambodia's struggle to safeguard nalists, and rebtoration of democratic rights. We appeal national independence and teritorial integrity, in supto all journalists in Asia and Africa to add their voice port of the Ceylonese Journalists' Association, in supto this denrand." port of the struggle waged by the Korean people and April 29, 1966' 13 === [PDF page 14] === journalists against U.S. imperialism and the "ROK- the Afro-Asian peoples to render moral and material Japan Treaty," of the liberation of Taiwan by the help to l-ris people's armed struggle. Chinese people, Cambodia's policy of,self-reliance in Eos Chet ilhor (Cambodia) denounced U.S. impenational construction by doing without so-called Amer- ria-iism.and its Thai and south Vietnamese underlings ican "aid.'' the North Kaiimantan people's struggle for for their subversion, pressLlrL-, plots, threats and acts na.tional independence and against British neo*colonial- of aggression against Cambodia since it had declared ist "Malaysia," the Azanian (South African) people's its ad-herence to the principles of Bandung. He cited l-esolve to use revolutionary violence to meet reactionary Cambodia's example to show that the Afro-Asian counviolence, resolutions concerning the U.S.-Ang1o-Iranian tries could get on very well without American "aid" p).ot in the Arabian Gulf Area, condemning the Islamic or ties lvith the United States. Pact, in support of the freedom fighters of Bahrein, condemning the persecution of journalists and freedom Tikiri Banda Peramunetilleke (Ceylon) told the fighters in Arab courntries, supporting the struggle of the meeting that only through armed struggle could the people of Aden. on the struggle waged by the people of imperialists be defeated. He condemned U.S. aggressive Mozambique, Angola and "Portuguese" Guinea against crimes in Vietnam and called on journalists to expose Portuguese colonialists, on the American people's the "double-faced, double-tongued hypocrite revolusiruggle against the U.S. Government's war policy, in tionaries rvho are trying to deceive the people with support of the struggle of the Philippine people against their so-called policy of 'peaceful coexistence."' send,ing Philippine troops to south Vietnam, con- Belazoug (Algeria) stated that the Algerian people demning British suppression of the peopies of the so- wouid spare no effort to support the Vi'etnamese, calied High Commission Territories of Bechuanaiand, Palestinian, Congolese (L) and other peoples fighting Easutoland and Sr,vaziland. on solidarity with the Latin imperialism. American peoples, on the Yemeni question, condemning Mei Yi (China) declared that in order to isolate and the'military coups d'etat staged by IJ.S.-led imperialists de;rl blows at U.S. imperialisrn and its lackeys to the in Africa. and on the complete liquidation of foreign greatest possible extent, the people of the world must militaly bases. further broaden and strengthen the intelnational united A11 these resolutions and the appeal rn ere adopteC front against U,S. imperialism. This front should be unanimousll, after a fu1l exchange of viervs. At the based on the soliriarit.v- of the revolutionarS' people of general sessions and commission meetings. delegates the rvorld, but it should definitel-v not incluCe the expressed agreement rvith the Secretary-General's la-ckeys, accomplices and collaborators of U.S. imper'epcrt and the decision to withdraw the A.A.J.A. rialism. Secretariat from Djakarta. They also toid about their Discussing the current 'rvorld situation, Mei Yi crn,n struggies. said: "The various political forces are going through Huynh Yan Ly (south Vietnam) gave an account a violent process of division and reorganization. While cf the victories won by the south Vietnaroese armymen some people have been thrown off the train of the a.nd civilians in their heroic struggl,e and con.demn,e,d levclution. more and more people are joining the revthe U.S. scorched-earth policy. He said that the smoke olutionary ranks. The whole world is undergoing a of Jcl-ri'rson's "peace" shells could ner,.er obscure the process of great upheaval, great division and great countless U.S. crimes conrmitted in south Vietnam. He reor'ganization. declared that when the enemy rvas still in south Viet- "In face of such drastic changes in il-re international nam,.,vhen it contlnued to massacre th,e south Viet- situation, the mouthpieces of imperialism, rvhile alarmed namese people u,ith bombs and builets, nobody could at th,e 'chaos' in the world today, shout ioudiy that make his people stop ha-lf way in their resistance. 'the East r'vind does not s.eem to prevail over the West "There can be no peace for those being enslaved." wind.' The propaganda machiires of the modern revi- Luu Quy Ky (D.R.V.) declared that the Vietnamese sionists rvho fear and oppose revolutions and who p,eople were deterrnin,ed to fight on until final victory, capitulate to imperialism yell about the 'deteriorating' no matter how long this took 5, 10.or 20 years. He situation, fearing that the revolutionary storm raised told the meeting about the victories won against U.S. by the people of the world r,vi1l shatter their fond air pirates. dream of collaboration with U.S. imperialism. Magin el Bandak (Palestine Liberation Organization) "We progressive journalists, however, hold that declared that the national-liberation movements had no the current great upheaval, great division and great choice but to fight. "Either fight or surrender, we reorganization is a reflection of the deepening of the choose to fight," he said. The Middle East, h,e pointed anti-imperialist revolutionary struggle of the world's out, now faced a new revolutionary struggle. FIe people. In essence and from the viewpoint of developdescribed the Palestine probtrem as one caused by ment, the situation is fine, not terrible. It is favourable Zionist-imperialist aggr,ession backed by U.S. might. to the people of the world and unfavourable to impe- Ramazani Seltastien (National Council for the rialism and the reactionaries of all countries." Liberation of the Congo (L) ) exposed U.S. irnperialist Mei Yi said that the national-liberation mol,ement ambitions to dominate his country and the rnass murder in Asia and Africa was entering a new stage. On the of defenceless Congolese inhabitanls. He cailed on one hand, the Afro-Asian peoples urgently demanded 14 Peking Reui,tto, No. 18 === [PDF page 15] === the thorough liquidation of the forces of imper-iaiism and into a bridgehead for aggression in the Far East and its lackeys. On the other hand, the imperialists and Asia. headed by the United States were trying their utmost Bakary Traore (Mali) exposed imperialist schemes to stage a come-back in Asia and Africa. More than to subvert the progressive governments in Africa, inat any time in the past, the people of Asia and Africa cluding Mali. 'oWe have long realized," he said, "that urgently needed to carry forward the fight against it was a question between imperiaiism and us, a quesimperialism, old and new colonialism and their lackeys. tion of life and death. We prefer to run the risk of "However, the propaganda machines of the modern confronting our enemies face to face rather than begrevisionists, with the C-P.S.U. leaders as their centre, ging to them and taking some timid steps backwards." continue to babble about and spread the old tune of Experience had proved that those who retreated most so-ealled 'peaceful eoexistence.' They say that 'coio- often fell, he conciuded. nialism has disappeared' and that 'a tiny spark can Valentim Sithole (Mozambique) declared that his start a world war' and so on. Their purpose is simply peopie had come to realize that the only way to liberate to cover up the acute contradiction between imperial- their country from Portuguese colonial rule was to take ism, new and old colonialism headed by the United up arms and meet reactionary violence with revolu- States on the one hand and the oppressed nations on tionary violence. the other. par-alyse the revolutionary will of the Afro- Asian peoples. and persuade the oppressed nations to Peter Kagisa (Tanzania) pointed out that the U.S. abandon their revolutionary struggle for iiberation and Central Intelligence Agency was engaging in subversive for ever suffer oppression and enslat'ement b)- impe- activities in ali parts of the world. In Africa, it rvas rialism and its lackel-s.'' tr-ving to overthrorv proglessive governments, sabotage the Organization of African Unity and undermine in- Supeno (Indonesia) reporid on the political situa- fiuential progressive leader-s. tion in his countrl' since October 1965. He denounced A.R" Aboukoss (Syria) lashed out at U.S. imperialthe fascist military dictatorship of Generals Suharto and Nasution rvhich had massacred hundr-eds of thousands ism for its aggression and intervention against the peoples of the Arab countries. The Arab revolution, of Indonesian patriots. he said, had entered the arena of worldwide people's He said: "In Indonesia today many families are revolution and had begun to make its own contributions iir mourning, wives have lost their husbands, children to smashing U.S.-led imperialism. are separated from their parents, and in concentration camps are heard the groans of patriots who are sub- Ihrahim Said Baathy (United Arab Republie) dejected to cruel torture. And far away beyond the ocean, nounced imperialist aggression in the Arab countries and other parts of the world. He supported the strugthe imperialists are laughing their heads off. They g1e of the Vietnamese people and condemned U.S. lavishly heap praises and laud the Council of Generals aggression in Vietnam. for having faithfully executed their directives. They promptly sent money and materiel to boister the posi- Don Kwaedza Muvuti (Zimbahu,e) declared that his tion of the Council of Genera1s." people rejected the path of appeasement and capitulation and was "determined to conduct armed struggle Strongly condemr-ring the Indonesian Right-u,ing against the imperialist enemy relentlessly, until victory forces' intervention in the A.A.J.A., Supeno said: "They is rvon." have completely forgotten that the A.A.J.A. is not a national organization but an international one." He L.E. Morrison (Azania, i.e., South Africa) said that solemnly eoncluded that the Indonesian people could his people had decided to take up arms against Verwoerd and his henchmen, tools of the imperialists and colonialnever b.e subjugated. "Hundreds of thousands have ists headed by the United States. He added: "We have fallen, but millions will stand up to take their place Iearnt through bitter lessons that the policy of 'peaceand fight on," he said. ful coexistence,' of co-operation with the enemy, is a Yuiehi Kobayashi (Japan) condemned the U.S. and bankrupt and dangerous policy, which should be com- Japanese reactionaries, noting that they rvere tightening pletely exposed and opporsed." their control of mass media in Japan as they tried to * embroil the Japanese people in a new world s'ar. He assailed the Soviet revisionists for their'disruptive ac- The success of the A.A.J.A. Secr-etariat meeting tivities among Japanese jcurnalists. was warmly greeted by the Chinese public and press. Chu Teh, Chairman of the Standing Committ'ee of the Jean Baptiste Deen (Guinea) deciared the Asian and National People's Congress, and Vice-Premier Chen Yi African journalists should ceaselessly denounce the im- on different occasions received the delegates and perialists' schemes. Condemning the recent coups in Liao Cheng-chih, Chairman of the Chinese Committee Ghana and other African countries, he said: "We for Afro-Asian Solidarity, gave a banquet in their should counter imperialist violence with revolutionary honour. The All-China Journalists' Association also violence." organized a reception for them. On Aplil 24, over 1,500 Kang Sang }Yooi (Korea) denounced U.S. imperial- journalists fron-r China and other Afro-Asian countries ism for having turned south Korea into its colony, into a attended a rally to celebrate both the A.A.J.A. meetmilitary base for the oceupation of the whole of Korea, (Continue<I on P. 24.) April 29, 1966 t5 === [PDF page 16] === A.A.t.A. Secretoriat Meeting Generol Report by Diowoto In his general report, Djawoto, Secretarg-General "And it is here and nowhere else, in these areas, where of the Afro-Asian Journalists' Association, d.ealt erten- the peoples' resist.ance has been the most teliing, dealsitely usith the curuent international potitical situation. ing hanmer-like death blows at the imperialists ancl Iie also reported on the actiui.ties oJ the A.A.J.A. their lackeys." Secretariat since its last meeting oDer a Aear ago, as u;ell as on its future work. Follouing i.s an account of In Vietnam. n,hich had become the focal point of the report.-Ed. the aggressive designs of the imperialists, the heloic Vietnamese people tvere demonstrating to the wcrld that "it is not \reapons, but the courage, determina- Ar S " firm, anti-imperialist international journalists' tion and consciousness of a people who dare to make -( organization, the A.A.J.A. wou1d, together with battle against aggression and overcome reaction lhat the fighting people of the world, carry forrvard the decide their future, that can bring them genuine instruggle against imperialism, colonialism and neo- dependence and freedom. The rvhole people of Vietcolonialism resolutely, until they had been wiped nam are engaged in the struggle against aggression, completely off the face of the earth, declat'ed Djawoto. thtrs giving the fullest play to the strenqth of "We are firm upholders of the Bandung elan. We people's war. The victories scored by the Vietnamese will not compromise with any of the forces rvho are people have fully proved the fact that peopie's w-ar anti-people. is the best method of dealing with U.S. imperialist aggression," Djawoto said. "We rvill with candour. rvithout fear and rrith no holds barred, continuously expose all those n,ho have Dangling before the rn,orld their fraudulent "peace" fallen prey to reactionary pragmatism, who have capitu- proposais. U.S. aggressors had exposed their desperate Iated." position. aiming to fool the Vietnamese people to lay dos-n their arms. he continued. It was also here, in On the international situation, Djawoto strongly Vietnan. s-here the apologists of imperialism tvere condemned U.S. imperialism's aggression against Viet- making fi'antic efforts to mislead the Vietnamese peonam and its policies of aggression and w.ar in the rest ple into accepting the "peaceful'' overtures of the imof Asia, Africa and throughout the world. perialists, that the suicidal nature of "peaceful co- He denounced the hypocrite revolutionaries for existence" with imperialism tvas being thoroughty laid the treacherous and sinister role they were playing, in bare. aiding and abetting U.S. imperialism in its schemes of For all genuine revolutionaries there was only one aggression. line to take on the Vietnamese question, and that was Djawoto said that the present rvorld situation was to unequivocaliy support the 4-point stand of the excellent for the peoples of the world. The struggle Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the 5-part statervaged by the peoples of Afrtca, Asia and of the whole ment of the South Vietnam National Front for Liberaworld against imperialism, colonialism and neo_colo_ tion, he said. nialism was today advancing to an unprecedented Djarvoto condernned the Indonesian military fascist peak. The line of demarcation between the forces of dictatorship of Generals Nasution and Suharto for aggression and subversion and the peoples who rvere cruelly murdering hundreds of thousands of patriots for liberation and peace had become as clear as crystal, and jailing hundreds of thousands more. In Indonesia he said. where "a11 elementary democratic rights have been "On the one hand stand the forces of imperialism, denied by the military fascist dictatorship clique, one headed by the United States, their lackeys and those sees alreadv the stirring of the people's resistance, that who have capitulated to them, while on the other are will sooner or later encompass the whole of Indonesia, arrayed the mighty, resolute anti-imperialist forces returning this country to the anti-imperialist fold. The who hold that there can be no compromise between prospect of this struggle is bright and the final victory them and the imperialists, between the oppressor and is sure to come." the oppressed," he said. Djawoto also spoke of the anti-U.S. imperialist The focus of U.S. aggression hacl moved from struggles waged by other Asian peoples. Europe to the storm centres of the anti-imperialist Djawoto said that the African people \^'ere carrystruggle in the world. Africa, Asia and Latin America ing on a firm struggle to stop the return of the impebore the brunt of imperialist aggression today, he said. rialists and colonialists to their homeiands. 16 Peking Reuiew, No. 18 === [PDF page 17] === The Congolese (L) people had resolutely chosen the "intimate friends" of the Afro-Asian peoples, hypocritpath of armed struggle. In "Portuguese" Guinea, Mo- ically playing with the term "solidarity," so that they zambique, and Angola. the colonialists were meeting. could sow discord and carry out splitting activities defeat after defeat at the hands of the national-libera- amang the Afro-Asian peopies, thus attempting to tion movements in these territories. "The correctness ttndermine their solidarity against imperialism. They of armed struggle is aptly illustrated in these regions were splitting the lib,eration movements. in Africa," Djarvoto said. It was these "frien,Cs" lvho had armed the reac- He said: "The reactionaries of Ghana seem to have tionary forces of India, who refused to condemn them gained the upper hand, but it is only temporary. The s,hen they attacked another socialist country, China, people cf Ghana, steeled in the struggle against colo- and u.iren they committed aggression against Paklstan. nialism, lt,ill not look on passively. After the reaction- It was these "friends." who while shouting aloud from ary imperialist military coup in Ghana, a new upsurge the rooftops about self-determination, refused to conof the struggle of the African people against impe- demn India for suppressing the struggle for self-deterrialist subversion, intervention, aggression and oppres- mination of the I(ashmir people. sion has come to the fore." It rvas the wrong advice given to that patriot of He also spoke of the anti-imperialist struggles of Afr-ica, Patrice Lumumba, by such "friends" who other African peoples. brcught the U.S.-controlled U.N. forces into the Congo that resulted in his brutal murder and the plundering of The rvhole Latin American continent was seething r,vith discontent against the Lt.S. imperialists. the the rrealth of that countrv by the U.S. irnperialists. greedy control of their national economies b-v the U.S. It rra.-. these "friends''.n-hc \\:ere supporting the mormonopoly capitalists, and the ccntinued gro,cs interibund and reactional']- groups t,ithin the nationalliberation movements in Africa. Asia and Latin Amer-- Ierence by U.S. imperialism in the internal affairs of all Latin An-rerlcan countries. he added. In many of ica. Thel' had thus been keepi.ng themselves out of the people's anti-imperialist front, and setting themselr'es them, the people had resorted to armed struggle. in opposition to the people. "The anti-imperialist struggle of the peoples has Djar,voto said that the imperialists, afraid of the reached unparalleled heights, while imperialism headed rising tide of the anti-irnperialist fotces, had to counterby the United States is at the end of its rope. Such attack, they had to plan subversion, they had to resort is the main current in Asia, Africa and Latin America to all kinds of cunning and sinister schemes, directly or Djarvoto said: "The most pressing task facing the people of the storm centres is to enhance their miliiant "The imperlalists are acting in this wa,v in sheer desperation. We should not be afraid of these developsolidarity. further consolidate and broaden the interments, nor should we attempt to turn away and try national united front against imperialism headed by tlie United States to the widest possible extent and to compromise rn'ith imperialism. i,qolate U.S. imperialism as much as they can. There "On the contrary, it has been proved by the hisis no doubt ihat if we want to consclidate and expand tcrl- of mankind that a frenzied counter-attack of the the anti-imperialist front rve must expose and oopose d5-ing reactionaries ahva-vs anticipates the approaching those hypocrite revolutionaries rvho co-operate and of the still greater victories of the new forces. This collaborate with U.S. imperialism and hare becorne is a great victory u'hich will swallorv up all the imthe enemy of the Afro-Asian people." perialist and colonialist systems." Djawoto condemned the attempt of the imperialist Djawoto said that the great upheaval showed the forces headed by the United States to isolate China. increase in the tempo of the pulse of the era. In this forward march, the people might meet rvith difficul- He saicl that the Asian and African peoples were ties or suffer setbacks here and there. But this rvoulcl not deceived. To them China was a brother and no only help them to drar,v lessons from defeats and to amount of slander or attempts at isolation could sep- sharpen their swords in order to deal the enemy stil1 arate the people of China from the rest of the storm deadlier blows. centres. "In this last year or so the political consciousness He pointe.d out that some people had been scared of the Afro-Asian journalists and their complete idenby the apparent strength of imperialism. Afraid tity with the anti-imperialist struggle can be judged of this tottering "giant" with feet of clay, they had by the high revolutionary standard of journalism that come to terms lvith him, capitulated and, together with is evident, as well as the greater participation of the the reactionaries, sabotaged the struggle against impe- Afro-Asian journalists in the everyday struggle of the lialism. Proclaiming aloud that they were anti-impe- Afro-Asiarr peoples," Djarn'oto said. rialists. they had, with monotonous regularity, churned out apologies and excuses for imperialism. Together IIe condemned the imperialists for exerting every with the in-iperialists, they supported the reactionary effort to establish not only military bases in Africa ciiques of valious countries. They pretended to be the and Asia, but also "bases" of mass communication April 29, 1966 77 === [PDF page 18] === media, with the help of the reactionaries and their journalism. They attacked imperialism only on trifles, agents. They financed, overtly or covertly, these making a big fanfare about these "expositions" and "bases" for various kinds of activities for subverting "attacks" of theirs, but stayed clear from opposing irnthe progressive movement in Asia and Africa. The perialism on major and fundamental issues. Through imperialists and their }ackeys knew that journalism these double standards of theirs, they tried to deceive \1.as a powerful weapon, and, therefore, they tried to the peoples, and in that way achieve their purpose of control or to inJluence the press, radio and television serving and helping imperialism. in Asia and Africa by rrarious means. Here and there Referring to the activities of the A.A.J.A. in the:n Africa and Asia, the press lords from the West still past year or more since the last plenary rneeting, ccrrtrolled various firms of mass media. Resolute action Djawoto said that it had spared no efforts to fulfi1 its had to be taken against their lies, their slanders, their duty as an anti-imperialist and progressive organization distortion of the life and struggle of the peopies of Asia of journalists. In the light of important international and Africa. "We must expose them, and engage them events at various times, the A.A.J.A. had issued statein a tit-for-tat struggle," Djarvoto declared. ments, condemning the crimes of aggression committed He said: "Our progressive and militant colleagues by imperialism and colonialism headed by the United have, in many instanees, been the butt of persecution States against the peoples of the world and especially Ii of the imperialists and their 1ackeys." the peoples of Asia and Africa, and supporting the peopie's struggles. "In Indonesia, hundreds of progressive journalists, rvho have been in the forefront of the anti-imperiaiist, The organ of the A.A.J.A. consistently and colonialist and neo-colonialist struggie, are now suffer- systematically upheld and propagated the principle of ing in jail. I\[any have been brutaily murdered. Many the Djakarta Declaration. have been subjected to the most inhumair tortures and One of the r,rrost important tasks the A.A.J.A. acindignities. Their progressive papers have all been eorrrplished, rvas the holding of its first course for jourbanned. nalists. "In Ghana, the first target, as was evidenced'in The A.A.J.A. had participated in nine international Indonesia. of the CIA sponsored Right-wing military or regional conferences, and through the participation coup leaders was the progressive journalists. Various in these conferences and friendly visits, the A.A.J.A. progressive papers have been clamped down. Numerous had closely linked itself with the progressive moveof our colleagues have been arrested and imprisoned." ments in Asia, Africa and Latin America in particular He also referred to the persecution of journalists and the whole u'orld in gener-al. It had sent four in south Korea, south Vietnam and many other coun- friendship delegatior-rs to visit many countries in Africa tries. He said: "We strongly c'ondemn the persecu- and Asia. tion of these journalists, brothers of ours, and express As to the future u,ork of the A.A.J.A., he said, our firm support for and solidarity with them." "The A.A.J.A., as a proglessit,e and militant anti- He said that in Indonesia, military fascist dictator- irnperialist and anti-eolonialist organization, is duty ship, afraid of the truths being told by the Hsinhua bound to firmly stand with the Afro-Asian peoples, News Agency, had closed down its office in Djakarta. thoroughly exposing the crimes committed by U.S. impclialism and supporting the just struggles of the petl- "This fear that the imperialists and their Iackeys pies the world over." have for our press," he said, "is a sign of our strength; it is a sign of the fear that the imperialists and their He stressed, "The anti-impelialist and anti-colo- Iackeys have for the truth that we disseminate." nialist banner should be raised high and active suppcr+" be given to the people all over the world in genei'al, Djawoto said: "Our activities are based on and and the people in Asia and Africa in particulai, in guided by the common struggle against imperialism, their struggle against imperialisn-r and colonialism and rallying all progressive journalists by promoting rev- for their national liberation." "The secretariat regards olutionary solidarity and co-operation through.jour- its support for the Vietnamese people's struggle as one nalism. On the contrary, the International Press In- of its rnost important tasks," he said. stitute, International Federation of Journalists and Asian Press Organization, backed by the imperialists He also dealt with some other concrete tasks -such and their agents, are carr5ling out activities among as: the secretariat should try to make closer contact journalists to hamper the progressive movemei-rts with its member eountries, to improve the associaeverywhere and to spread reactionary and counter- tion's publication and propaganda work, to continue revolutionary ideas and concepts of journalism." to conduct the Afro-Asian journalist courses, and He condemned those persons who elaimed that to organize some professional activities such as seminars of correspondents, editors, commentators, etc. they were anti-irnperialist, but who actually connived with imperialism. They preached a journalism "free In conclusion, Djawoto declared, the secretariat from politics," and meandered and waddled in technical would work for the convening of the Second Afro-Asian expertise in journalisrn as the only criterion for true Journalists' Conference as soon as possible. 18 Peking Reoiew, No. 78 === [PDF page 19] === The Five-Storred Red Flsg ls lnvioloble CHAO Hsiao-shou and some other members of the was organized by the Indonesian Right-wing military \-/ Chinese embassy staff in Indonesia have returned regime. to Peking to a hero's welcome from people all over China. While in Djakarta, they and other comrades At 10:50 hours (local time), fully armed members hercicalllr defended China's national flag againsl at- of the Indonesian armed forces, ganging up with hoeligans and secret agents of the Chiang Kai-shek tacks by Indonesian fascist thugs who raided the clique, drove to ihe Chinese Embassy in down-town Chinese Embassy on April 15. Djakarta in dozens oI trucks. In the face oI fascist violence. the inembers of the Scores of hooligans and armed soldiers climbed Chinese Embassy displa5-ed the dauntless spirit of defy- over the wall into the embassy compound. The first ing death and daring to struggle. s1'mbolic of the target of the screaming thugs waS the flagstaff on the unshakable heroism of the great Chinese people who lau-n of the Embassy. They tried to haul down China's are armed with Mao Tse-tung's thinking. China is not national flag by force. to be bullied! At this point. eight menrbers of the embassy staff, On the morning of April 15, in Banl,eng Square in ineluding First Secretarl' Lu Tzu-po and Deput-,- Mili- Djakarta. whele Indonesian hooligans staged an anti- tary Attache Shih Hsin-jen. rushed to the defence of China rneeting, pandemonium reigned. The meeting the five-starued red flag s'hich is s1'mbolic of the great Chinese people and the honour of China. Arms locked, they formed a rlng round the flagstaff and condemned the club-and-dagger-u,ielding thugs and kept them at bay for half an hour. In the meantime, hooligans outside the Embassy stormed the gate with trucks and at'moured cars and broke it down. Thugs poured into the compound and attacked the defenders of the flag lvith clubs, iron bars and rocks. Chao Hsiao-shou, Hu Chao-pin and three other staff memberrs of the Embassy hurried to the aid of their eight ccmrades in order to safeguard the national flag. When an Indonesian thug raised an ilon bar to attack Hu Chao-pin. 26-year-old Chao IIsiao-shou, a probationary member of the Chinese Communist Party. shielded Hu Chao-pin with outstretched arrns. StidCenly, a helmeted Indonesian armyrnan, hiding among the hooligans, took aim at and opened fire on Chao Hsiao-shou frorn a distance less than ten metres. Chao Hsiao-shou was hit in the right side cf his chest and w'as seriously 'nt ounded. He fell I and blood poured from the wound. As another fascist armyman took aim at Hu Chao-pin, Shih Hsin-jen pustred the gun aside and the bultret whistled past Hu Chao-pin. By then, more than 1,000 hooligans and fascist armyrnen had swarmed into the embassy compound. The gangsters pulled down the Chinese flag, tore it up and fired at random with submachine-guns. They also smashed the national emblem of China. Using iron bars and clubs, the thugs smashed the doors, windorvs and furniture in all the rooms except those at the back. They cut the telephone lines and The five-starred rert flag of lhe Pe-ople's Republic of carried. off the telephones. They smashed or burnt r.rp China flies proudly at the,Chiaese Embassy in Indonesia embassy buiidings, equiprnent, motor-cars, documents April 29, 1966 19 === [PDF page 20] === fiercely the enemy attacked the Chin,ese people, the clearer the evidence that they had acted correctly. The gangsterism of the Indonesian Right-wing military regime in trampling on elementary standards of international law and accepted diplomatic immunity fuIly revealed the fascist character of the r'egime and exposed its weakness and desperation. Our comrades had looked cont,emptuously at the hooligans and courageously defied the fascist al'mymen who pointed the muzzies of their guns at them. The motherland's solicitude gave the embassy staff great encouragement. They said: ''We assure our Party's Central Committee, Chairman Mao and the people of our country that r*'e are ready to lay'dolvn our trives to defend the honour of our country." Chao Hsiao-shou's proletarian heroism Staff members of the Chinese Embassy fearlessly clefenrl China's was an inspiration to all his comrades. After naiional flag from being insulted by hooliga,ns wielding tlaggers, clubs and iron bars Indonesian hooligans had attacked the Chinese Consulate-General an'd the Office of the Commercial Counsellor of th,e Chinese Emand other things and took away cars and a large bassy, Chao }Isiao-shou told his comrades: "Wang aniount of valuables, clothing and other things. Cl-rieh l-rad the cor-rrage to rise above hardships and The orgy of destruction lasted three hours. When death. Like him, we must act as Chairman Mao has the thugs left, they shamelessly shouted: ''Long iive tcld us. We must alu,ays keep in mind our people and the U.S.A.!" and "We'r,e carried out the mission our motherland. If the Indonesian Right-tving forces assigned by Uncle Suharto of smashing the Chinese dare to attack us, I will stay at my post and fight them, As the thugs were leaving, Adam Malik, Deputy After Chao llsiao-shou was wounded, his comrades Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Indonesian hastened to his side to give him first aid. As he Right-wing miiitary regime, entered th,e main hall of graduaily revived, he told his comrades: "Don't bother the Embassy, escorted by a group of armed soldiers about me! Carry on the struggle!" and hooligans. As he was carried to hospital, he continued to mur- Yao Teng-shan, Charge d'Affaires ad interim of mur: "The thugs.. get... get out!" He did not the Chinese Embassy, immediately lodged the strongest groan once clespite his great pain. protest with Malik, vrho had agitated for an attack on the' Chinese Embassy in a message to the anti-China "W'e must do everything to save Comrade Chao meeting just before the raid. Hsiao-shou," said Yao Teng-shan. Embassy members tcck turns sitting with Chao Hsiao-shou day and night. Other officials of the Embassy on the scene pointed Many gave blood transfusions. Yao Teng-shan visited to Comrade Chao Hsiao-shou, who rvas in a state of Chao Hsiao-shou in hospital and told him how the peoshock, and to his blood-stained shirt. They protested ple at home were concerned about his condition. to Malik and told him: "We will accuse you before the rvhole world of a fascist outrage!" Chao Hsiao-shou said: "I have not quite fulfilled the task assigned me by the people of the motherland. Speechless rvith embarrassment, Malik hurriedly I will continue the struggle." Yao Teng-shan told him: quit the Embassy. The embassy staff cried out their "You have fulfiiled your task sup,erbly and defended our condemnation of the thugs. national flag and the honour of the motherland witle Immediately after the hcoligans, departure, a staff hercism. You are a fine son of the motherland!" Later'. membel of the Embassy climbed to the top of the Chao Hsiao-shou was informed that he had been flagstaff tvith a new five-starred red flag and the na- admitted into the Chinese Communist Party as a fuli tional flag of China lvas flying proudly once more. member'. During this fierce struggle with the Indonesian Chao Hsiao-shou is the son of a poor peasant fascists, all the members of the Chinese Embassy dis- family. When New China was founded, he vu'as less played a dauntless proletarian spirit and unswerving than ten years old. He joined the People's Liberation loyalty to their motherland, to their people and to Army in 1958 and was cited as an outstanding soldier Chairman Mao Tse-tung. They knew that the more because he had distinguished himseif in studying Chair- 20 Peking Retsieru, No. 18 === [PDF page 21] === man Mao Tse-tung's works, following his guidance and mbtherland were concerned about his condition, he was acting in accordance with his instructions. After being moved to tears and said: "I thank the Parly, Chairdemobilized, he was assigned to work abroad. man Mao and the people o[ our country." In the days after he had been wounded, Chao Since his return to Peking on April 23, many Hsiao-shou said that he had done no more than a comracles have visited him and expressed their soliccitizen of China ought to do. Although he never itude. His reply to th,em was: "The Communist Party uttered a sound despite his pain, when his comrades and Chairman Mao made me what I am. The people of told him ho'w the Chinese Comrnunist Party and the the motherland have given me boundless strength.'t Foreign Ministry Notes Strongest Protests Ago inst I ndonesio n Government's Deliberote Anti-Chino Outroges lndonesion drmymen ond hoodlums hove roided, wrecked ond seized the Office of the Commerciol Counsellor of the Chinese Embossy, the office ond living quorters of the Chinese Consulote-Generol, two seporote embossy living quorters os well os the office of its Militory Attoche. Follotoing are the mai,n contents of three notes from of the Consulate-General. fhey wiifully looted the the Chines,e Ministrg of Foreign Affairs to the lndo- Consul,ate-General and carried away several truckloads nesian EmtiassE in China.-Ed. of furniture and other property. The ringleader of the hooligans ordered that all valu-ables should be taken away, lvith none of them left behind. Large numbers April 20 hlote of hcoiigans spent that night in ihe Consulate-General, cat'ousing. riotrng. dancing the trrist. singing ba*'dy I T 09:15 hours on April 19. 1966. abcut 3C0 Indone- songs and behai,'urg bestiali;- until da1--break. The care- -la- sisn Right-wing hooligans. equipped rvith knir-es, taker employees of the Consuiate-General and their pistols and other $:eapons and led by three police of- dependents were not released by the hooligans until ficers, forced the gate of the Chinese Consulate-Gen- 10:00 hours, the next day. erai in Djakarta rvith a truck and broke into its compcund. They declared to the employees looking after In the meantime, the Chinese Ernbassy repeatedly made representations and protests with the Indonesian the Consulate-General: "V/e have come on the orders Ministry of Foreign.{ffa"irs and the Headquar"ters of of Uncle Amir, Commander of the Fifth Lilitary Area, the Fifth Military Area. But the Indonesia.n Governto take over the Chinese Consuiate-General. From now ment and Army authorities deiiberately procrastinated on, this building belongs to us." They put up over the and evaded handling the matter. Now the Chinese Coirgate a big streamer bearing the name of the Righ{-wing sulate-General is sti11 occupied by the hooligans. Obhooligans' organization, "Th,e Headquarters of the Arif viously, this outrage has been pr:rposely engineered Rachman Hakim Regiment." Then, they broke into the by the Indonesian Government. It constittltes another store-room of the Consulate-General, took out provi- exiremely serious step taken by thc Indonesian Govsicns and devoured and drank them. They abused ernment to rupture the relations betrveen the two coun- China's state leaders and cursed the Chinese nationals. tries, after organizing armed troops and hooligans to After forcibly confining the tw'o care-taker empioyees raid the Embassy of the People's Republic of China and their dependents to two rooms, they rabidly on April 15. Against it, the Governm'ent of the Peosmashed or burnt up the equipment and facilities of p1e's Repubiic of China h'ereby lodges the strongest the Consulate-General. They brazenly tore up the na- protest with th,e Indonesian Government. tional flag of the People's Republic of China and hoisted the triangular yellow flag of "the Indonesian College It is completeiy futile for the Indonesian Govern- Students' United Action Comrn-and" on the flagstaff ment to deny its responsibility for the attacks on the April 29, 1966 21 === [PDF page 22] === Chinese missions. Not only was there direct parlicipa- rabid wrecking and looting, smashing up the furniture, tion of Indonesian armed forces in the attack on the equipment as well as doors and windows. They smeared ihinese Embassy on April 15, but prior to it Indonesian the walls with anti-Chinese slogans and even smashed Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Adam Malik a bust of the Chinese people's beloved leader Chairman flagrantly adclressed an anti-Chinese meeting of the Mao and burnt or'carried arvay the Chinese national blcody-minded hooligans, inclting them to activities flag and national emblem. Having locked up in one agains'u' China and the Chinese natronals, and after it room the employees. taking care of the building, they he received and highly commended.representatives of opened and ransacked the store-room, kitchen and bedthe criminal hooligans. This time, the Right-wing hoo- rooms and carried arvay the seized property in several ligans have wrecked and seized the Chinese Consulate- trucks. They shouted that they had come on orders to General, and the Indoneslan Government has all along take over the building and that it henceforth belonged failed to take any measures to stop the crime of the to them. They also hoisted the flag of the Righi-wing hooligans despite repeated representations by the Chi- organization, "The Union of Islamic Students of Indonese Embassy. Ail these ar"e facts which you can in no nesia," on the flagstaff of the Commercial Counsellor's way deny. Office. On the morning of April 21, the above-menticned troops and hooligans repeatedly foreed the care- While intensifying its sabotage of the relations taker emplo-vees to move out and threatened: "We have between the tlvo countries, the Ind-onesian Government taken cver this place. \Ve'll kill you if you don't move hypocritically claimed that it was "willing to main- out." Then they forcibly escorted these employees out tain friendly relations with the People's Republic of of the Commereial Counsellor's Office. China" and that it "guaraniees the safety of the Chinese Embassy and Chinese nationals in Indonesia." But After the incident, the Chinese Embassy rnade rescarcely had these words issued from the mouth th,an peated protests and representations r.vith the Indonesian there occurred the incident in which hooligans led by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the police authcrities Indonesian police smashed up the Chinese Consulate- concerned, demanding that they take immediate mea- General. This fact alone suffices'to demonstrate that sur:es to expel the hooligans, stop the looting and prothe above high-sounding words are utterly false. In the tect the employees looking after the building. However, past few months, the Indonesian Right-wing leaction- the Indonesian Government refused to handle the matary forces have attacked Chinese missions in Indone- ter by procrastination and quibbling. The police authorisia for as many as 1? times. injuring ol *.ou.nding by ties corcerned even declared: "We cannot expel thern gun-fire dozens of Chinese pelscnnel. diplomatic. ccn- lr'ithou,t orders from atrove." sular and journalist, and savagely persecuted thousat-rds At 13:30 hours on April 21, another group of more of innocent Chinese nationals. Since you have alr'eady than 30 Right-rving hociigans, equipped u'ith p'istols, trampled underfoot the rudimentary code of interna- rifles and other rveapons and led by armed soldiers, tional relations and indulged in wild attack on China seized the living quarters of the Chinese Consulateand Chinese nationals, how ean you speak of "main- General. They climbed over the wall into the compound, tenance of friendship" ot' "guarantee of safety"? Your smashed open a door and grabbed the keys from the crimes in attacking China and persecuting Chinese nacmpioyee taking cale o[ the house. They then opened tionals can in no way be covered up. all the doors, swarmed into and ransacked all the rooms, The Chinese Goveiinmcnt sternly demands that the seized property and smeared the walls with anti-Chi- Indonesian Government take immediate measures, expel nese slogans. They declared that the5, had occupied tl-re the hooligans u,ho have forcibly occupied the Chinese house and for'ced the care-taker emplo;ree to leave. Consulate-General, return the Chinese Consulat,e-Gen- At 24:00 hours on April 21, still another group of I eral and compensate for all the losses. and that it mu:st rnore than 50 armed soldiers and hooligans, carrying from now on effectively ensure the safetl- of the Chi- knives and other weapons, broke into the living quar-! nese missions. The Chinese Government reserr-es the ters of the Chinese Embassy at No. 72 Djati Petamburan right to raise further demands a{ter ascertaining the Street. Djakarta. They declared to the care-taker emfull details of this incldent. ployee that they had come to take over the house. Ttren they broke into all the rooms, looted the property and carried away a great deal of furniture and other April 22 Note things in tlucks. CCORDING to preXiminary reports received by the Following close on the armed raid of the Chinese /Ar Chinese Government, about?0 Indonesian Right- Embassy by hooligans organized by the Indonesian wing hooiigans, supported by the 323rd Battalion of Government, there have occurred these successive grave the Siiiwangi Division of the Indonesian Army, sacked incidents of wrecking and seizure of the Office of the and seized the Office of the Commercial Couirsellor of Commercial Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy, the the Chinese Embassy ai 09:45 hours on April 20, 1966, office and iiving quarters of the Chinese Consulate- After forcing their way inio the front courtyard in General and the living quarters of the Ernbassy. This ti"ucks and motor ca-rs, they climbed over the walI and is obviousiy a planned action of the Indonesian Govthe house, entered the inner courtyard and.engaged in ernment. From continually organizing hooiigans to at- ,, Peking Reoieu, No. 18 === [PDF page 23] === ta.ck and wTeck the Chinese diplomatic missions, you iooted the living quarters of officials oJ the Chinese have gone still further to take the grave measure of Embassy at No. 4, Labu Street, Djakarta. They climbed occupying them by force. This sho'uvs th,at the Indo- over the waIl and broke into and ransacked the rooms. nesian Government is fast pushing the relations be- They made all kinds of threats against Kuo Hao-ho. tween the two countries to a complete rupture. The Chang Neng-chen and Chen Pao-shou, who had been Chinese Government hereby lodges the strongest pro- assigned by the Chinese Embassy to take care of the test with the Indonesian Gover.nment against the above- house, and beat them up at will. These Indonesian mentioned grave incidents. armymen and hooligans engaged in looting and wreck- The Chin.ese Government sternly demands that the ing in the living quarters of the Chinese Embassy for Indonesian Go,,,ernment at once expel the hooligans as long as four hours and carried alvay a large quantity who have forcibly occupied the Office of the Comrner- of furniture and other property. cial Ccunsellor of the Chinese Embassy. the living quar- After organizing armed hooligans to seize the Office ters of the Embassy and the office and living quarters of Lhe Comrnercial Counsellor of lhe Chinese Embassy, of the Chinese Consulate-General. compensaie for ail the office and J.iving quarters of the Chinese Consulatethe losses and truly ensure the safeiy of the Chinese General and a living quarters of the Chinese Embassy missicns. The Chinese Government reserves the right in clcse succession, the Indonesian Government has now to raise further demands. done the same to the O{'fice of the Military Attache of the Chinese Embassy and raided another living quarte::s of'the Embassl'. In the meanti.me, Mr. Sur,vito, Deputy llinister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia. brazenl;, flg- April 24 Note cla:'ed tnat the hooligans rvho -seized offices and living quarters of the Chinese Embassl- and Consulate-General T 0B:00 hours on Aprii 21, 1966, a group of Indonesian s.ere "revolutionar-y'' and "progressirre'' youth; he even /7l[ hooligans, equipped lvith daggers, iron bars and cried that these buildings rvould be under the "control" other r.veapons and supported by personnel of the of the Dwikora Administrator. This further shorn,s that Silirt,angi Division of the Indonesian armed forces, the recent successive serious raids and seizure of ralded and seized the Office of the Military Attache Chinese missions were wholly of the making of the of the Chinese Embassy. Thev engaged in rabid wreck- Indonesian Government. Against these, the Chinese ing and looting and smeared the walls and the gate Government hereby lodges the strongest protest with with anti-Chinese slogans and the words, "Headquarters the Indonesian Government. of the Jani Battalion." They illegally detained Liu, The Chinese Government dernands that the Indo- Chih, who had been assigned by the Chinese Embassy nesian Governmenf irnmediately remove the armymen to take care of the house, and his dependents tiil Aprii and hooligans who are forcibll' occupf ing the Chinese 23" v.,hen the}, 16op them to the Chinese Embass;r. diplomatic missions. compensate for all the losses. At 02:00 hours on April 23. ab 'ut t10 off,icers and guarantee against the occurrence of similar incidents men of the Fifth Military Area cf the Indonesian Arml'. and eiiectir-ei1- protect the Chinese missions and their together rvith a gloup of arned liooligans. raideci and personne).. lndonesion Government-Orgo nizer of the Anti-Chino Outroges f,IOLLOWING the raid on the Chinese Embassy in perpetrate these shocking anti-China outrages' For- I' Diakarta by Indonesian armed forces acting tqg,ether eign Minister Adam Malik and other Indonesian officials u'ith hooligans, successive serious incidents have oc- denied that they were directed by the Indonesian curred within just over one week, in which the Office Government, saying that the Chinese charges were of the Commercial Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy, "ba-seless," and that the Indonesian Government "firmly the office and living quarters of the Chinese Consuiate- rejected" them. The Indonesian Right-u'ing military General, the Office of the Military Attache of the clique thinks that it can get away with it if it makes an all-out effort to deny it. Frankly, this can never Chinese Embassy and the living quarters of the Embassy be done. were seized and wrecked. Obviously this is a premeditated action taken by the Indonesian Government One can see that in all these anti-China outrages, Indonesian troops and police took the lead or acted in in order to bring the diplomatic relations between the co-ordination. During the raid on the Embassy, not two countries to a complete rupture. only large nllmbers of troops and police, but armoured The Indonesian Government, however, has vainly cars were used as support. In w'recking and occupying attempted to absolve itself of the criminal respon- the Offiee of the Commeicial Counselior of the Embassy sibility of organizing and instigating the hooligans to and the Office of the Military Attache, the hooligans April 29, 1966 === [PDF page 24] === did so in co-ordination with the armed forces of the It i.s true that among the hooligans rvho took part Siliwangi Division of the Indonesian Army. in the anti-China outrages there were members of such One can see that while staging this sab,re-rattling organizations as the "Indonesian College Students' fascist farce, they made no bones about rn,ho was behind United Action Command." But they are simply at the the scenes. They shouted: "We have carried out the beck and call of the Indonesian Right-wing military mission assigned by Uncle Suharto of smashing up the clique and act as its pawns. The chieftains of the Right- Chinese Embassy!" "We have come on the orders of wing generals have incessantly cheered them on and Uncle Amir, Commander of the Flfth Militarv Area, supported them. When Nasution rrret a group of reacto take over the Chinese Consulate-General!" tionary hooligans around the time of their recent and successirre wrecking raids on Chinese diplomatic agen- One can also see that at an anti-China raliy before cies, he told them "to stand in unity with the armed the raid on the Embassy, Indonesian Deputl- Pl'emier for-ces of the Indonesian Republic in a common strugand Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma1ik not onl;- made a g1e." At a rally sponsored by the Right-wing organizaspeech instigating anti-China sentiments. but received t:on. ''InCr--nesiar-r Coilege Students' United Action Comrepresentatives of lhe crimlnal hool:gans af ter the mand." Sui:alio ulged them to "co-operate especially incident and lavished praise on them. He open11- srth the armed for-ces." Is it not all too clear rvho has apologized for these fascist crlmes, saying that s-hat directed these rhugs and crdered them to engage in had taken place uras an expression of "the wrath of the frenzied anti-China activi::es? people," and r,,,as "quite natural." lndonesian Deputy Foreign Minister Suwito also openly declared that the The Indonesian Government is s'orking cvertime hooligans who occupied the offices and living qu,arters to manufacture anti-China fascist outrages, and is of the Ernbassy and Consulate-General lvere "revolu- bent on pushing relations between the trvo countries tionary" and "prcgressive" youth. to a complete rupture. But it is doing all it can to Incontrovertible facts shcr,v that the Indonesian deny this and does not dare to assume the responsibility Government is the organizer and director of the whole for breaking relations. Ear from being an indication of series of anti-China outrages, including the raid on the cleverness of its trlcks, this only sholvs that, n:tthe Chinese Embassy, and is the ringleader of the blocdy tt,ithstanding its outward arrogance, it is very fragile. crimes ol injuring or r.r,ounding by gun-fire the Chinese We would like to tell the Indonesian Government: u,ith diplcmats. Er.en the Radio of Japan Broadcasting ail the incontrovertible evidence against you, yoLlr Corporation said that the raid cn the Ernbassy rvas denial is completely useless. You must bear the entire conducted with the support and acquiescence of the responsibiiity fcr the anti-China crimes. Indonesian army and Government.. The eviclence is all there. How can it be shrugged off? ("Renmin Ribao" Commentator's article, April 26.) (Continued from p. 75.) A.A.J.A. meeting fu1ly responded to this need and ing's successful conchision and Afro-Asian Journalists' carrie.d the anti-imperlalist movement of the Afro-Asian "Renmin Ribao" Editoricl The e"ditorial declared that the general report and th,e political resolutions on Vieti-Iam and other quesiions On April 26, Rennin Ribco pubiished an eCitorial all reflected the revolutionary principles of steadfast r,vhich congratulated the meeting Ior- holdrr-.g alcft the o.oposition to U.S. imperialism an,C its lackeys and remilitant banner against U.S. imperialism and i:s fusal to ccmpromise in'-ith the anti-popular forces. The lacke;zs, for rnaking a clear distinction betrveen frieads resolution on Indonesia reflected the Afro-Asian p,eoand foes, for d.isplaying the spirit of unity and co- ples' deep feelirgs of niilitant solidarity rvjtir the Indoop,eration. The A.A.J.A. meeting showed that more and nesian people. nrore Afr:o-Asian journalists were united in the common struggle to hury imperialism, stat,ed the editorial. This The editorial particularly praised the d,emocratic was a powerfr-rl rebuff tc the imperialists, their lackeys spirit dispia5."eC at the meeting where real unanimity and accomplices who hcped to sa'oclage the Afro-Asian was reache.d after fuil discussion. In sharp contrarst to Journalists' Arssociation. The editorial said that at pres- me,etings conducted by some international orgarrizaent r,l,hen tire Afrc-Asian p.eopies had becorne more tions, th,ere \r,ras no baton, no voting machine. politically c,:nscious, lvhen th,e revolutir:nary forces The editorial concluded with a pledge thai the lv€re gro-wing and the revoiutionary mov,em,ents lvere Chinese p,eople and journalists will not faii the trust deepening, the Afro-Asian peoples need to strengthen placed in them by the Afro-Asian journalists in rnaking th.eir unity, develop their struggle against imperialism, Peking th,e ten-rporary lvorking place of the A.A.J.A. coicniaiism and neo-colonialism and draw a clear line Secretariat and will work hard for the convocation of of distinction betu'een themselves and the fake revolu- the Second Afro-Asian Journaiists' Conference in tionaries rvho are accomplices of lmp,erialisrn. The Algiers. Z4 Peking Reuiero, jVo. 78 === [PDF page 25] === Right-Wing Reoctionories Plunge lndonesio lnto o Bloodboth "'To lift o rock, merely to crush one's own foot' is o Chinese soying to describe the oction of fools, the reoctionories of every country ore just such fools. Their persecution of the revolutionory people will only end in rousing the people to broqder ond, fiercer revolution. Did not the persecutions of the Russion tsqr ond Chiong Koi-shek ogoinst the revolutionory people serve precisely to stimulqte the greot Russion ond Chinese revolutions?" [Unreadable] QINCE the beginning of last October, Indonesian are being filled to capacity with arrested communist Right-wing reactionary forces have stirred up coup supporters the army is firmly continuing its a violent campaign in all parts of Indonesia against mopping-up operations, combing out one kampong communism and against the people. By the most brutal (village) after another. The army has rvorked out fascist measures and through mass arrests and whole- plans for temporary detention camps of Cornmunists saie killings, they have plunged Indonesia into a biood- at Onrust Island, off the northwest Javanese coast, near bath, turning that beautiful and fertile country of 3,000 Djakarta, and at Nusakambangan Island, off the Cenislands into an inferno where white terror reigns. In tral Javanese south coast near Tjilatjap." only a few months, they have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Indonesian patriots and innocent peo- Another AFP dispatch from Djakarta cn Novemple old people, women and children not excepted. ber I said: "The Indonesian army's great purge and - savage crimes fly in the face of manhunt fcr communist coup suppoi'ter.s ri'as today Their aii hr_rmanity. r-epc,ited to be ccntir-ruing unabated. Belcw' are extracts from some repor.ts b1- \r,-estern "^\t Om'ust IsianC a1cne. sorne J.0C0 arre-<ied Comnervs agencies. from some reler-ant articles in Wes:ern munists are being kept in deiention. it s'as reliably and Japanese papers, as u'e1l as from a Right-*'ing Inciolearnt. nesian paper. From these extracts readers get some idea surely not the whole picture of the fascist n-rass "(This isiand-r,r,hich was formerly used by the - and massacles commltted- try the Indouesian arrests Dutch as a detention camp is off the northern coast - Tanjong Priok Harbour.) oI Vv/est Java, near Djakarta's Right-wing reactionary forces. "Mr:anrvhile the ar:my's mopping-up operaticns are House-to-House, Vi!loge-to-Villoge Arrests strll in full srving in Ceniral.Iava and Ea.st Java. One village after another is being combed carefully. And Mcssqcres Communist viilage heads and otirer locai communist The Japanese paper Asahi Shimbun on October B leaciers are being rounded up." carried a report frcm its correspondent in Djakarta which said that every night beginning from Octobei' 2, Corpses Rotting Everywhere; Rivers Clogged soidiers had conducted a hous,e-to-house search. "In With Bodies out-of-the-rvay alleys and the sltims (near'ly 2 million people live in Djakarta's slums) the search seems AB-P reportcd fr:om Singapole on December 29, to be most rigorous there are reports that peoplc' 1965: "Tens of thousands cf people aLre being slaughhave seen trucks lcaded r,vith corpses; others said that l.ered in Iudonesla in a savage lvave of reprisals against their neighbours had disappeared." tire Communi.cts. L'Agence France-Fresse reported frorn Djakarta on "One hundred thousand u,t.ruld be a conselvative October 31: "Prisons in this spi'av,,ling erchipeiago. estimate of the total oI those rvho have already died Ayril 29, 1966 === [PDF page 26] === in mass executions and massacres in J:rva, Sumatra, youtli organizations have continued this month to reach the outside world. "The bloodbath intensified four or {ive weeks ago "Estimates of the number of those killed now vary anC extends throughout most of the sprawli.ng island from anything between 10,000 and 300,000.... siate of Indonesia. "In addition to the executions, there have been "There harre been mass execlrtions of prisoners thousa.nds of arrests in East Java, where there abandoned to the fury of the popuiace [counter- -2,500 has also been a purge of some 5,?00 teachers, and revclutionaries]. Outbreaks of spontaneous kiiling have 10,573 in West Java, of lvhom nearly 10,000 are said to occurred. b,e Communists and the rest government officials." "Military authorities in Bali reportedly admit thei:e have been 15,000 official exectttions. but obser- Villoges Deserted After Mossocres ver-s say the burnt out d'rellings, charnel houses, of Bali attest to a death toll at least t'uvice that figure.... The Indonesian paper Sinar flarapan on February 3 contained an article describing the situation in East "In Sumatra the kiJ.iings now total more than 60,000 Java. It said: "It is indeed with apprehension that and in Central and Eastern Java. it may be even one takes a trip to East Java. This is because one is irigher." affected by ghastiy rumoLlrs. Everywhere the masses The report added; "On December 1B President [counter-revolutionaries]... rounded up and killed Sukarno complained because bodies lay rotting along Communists en masse. The press did not dare to report the roadside in diLches and rivers and in fielcls without these el,ents in detail for fear that thel- might alfect pubthe benefit of the rites of Islam." 1lc feellngs. \\-hetirel in Surabaja or in Pasaruan, Probaiinggo. \Iadiun. Kediri and Malang, we heard of The Associated Press said on Januarl' 13: "The trull- dreadful events that had taken place in the course repor-ted killing of moie than 100.000 Cornmunisis anC oi smashing the September 30 movement. These events s1-mpathizers in Indonesia \r-as a very consen'ative we never read about in the newspapers. It is rather estimate. embarrassing for one to try to taik about them here "The figure B-as more likely in the 150,000 now.. range.. '"The campaign to smash the September 30 move- "One thousand Communists and sympathizers ment was often manipuiated by elements giving vent u-ere being killed weekly in North Sumatra alone. to personal spite, and criminals and exploiters.... Dead siience reigned in the countryside, whether in "The killings were ferocions in the Medan the daytime or at night. It appeared that the villages area..., rvere deserted. Villagers feared very much that they might be lvrongiy arrested. The coleman lamp in the "Parts of the Medan River were ciogged with office of the village administration \e'as no longer bodies Ior a while. lighted. Street lights were out. Villagers trembled "It was the army which is conducting the greatest with fear the moment they l-reard a car entering the purge against Communists and sympathizers." viliage." A Cornoge Which Finds Few Porollels in the A Bloody Three-Month Record Contemporory World The London Sunday Times repolted on January 2 The French weehly Le Nouvel Observateur on March that "more people had been killed in the Indonesian 2 published an article which said that in the past four revolt in the past three months than had died in the monihs Indonesia had a reai bloodbath, an unimaginabie \rietnam war in the past five years. carnage r,vhich had {ew parallels in the contemporary "Deaths in the 'wholesale slaughter of Communists' rvorld, "On January 15, Sukarno, in a speech. spoke had been put conservativeiy at 100,000 by Western of 87,000 killed; insiders, at that time, quoted the figure dipiomats.... to be 200,000. Today, estimates considered moderate put it b,etween 300,000 and 350.000. The victims are "European engineers, businessmen and other for- 'Commrinists' or people deemed such. eign travellers returning from up-country speak of rivers filled with fioating decapitated corpses." "In East Java, beheaded bodies drifted by the dozens down the rivers daily while the peasants A London Times article on January 8, entitled brought the corpses of those executed to the railway "I\'Iass Killings of Indonesian Communists Continue," embankrnent for travellers to identify. In Bali, the said: "stories of the continued widespread and ruth- repression rvas marked it is said by an implacable less suppression of the Communi.st Party of Indonesia ruthlessness. In Nolth -Sumatra, in- the neighboulhood (P.K:I.) by nationalists in particular by the Muslim of some plantations, w-here the victims were numbered 26 Peking Reoieu, I[o. 18 === [PDF page 27] === by thousands, the smell flom the unburied corpses understar:ding Indonesia' to recount his part in orobliged the authorities to take 'certain hygienic n'reas- ganized killiugs. ures.' "He said... by the end of October, army units "The anti-Communist generals and their advisers arrived and the hunt for Communists and their have thus utilized the 'September 30 event' to launch families began. what some people call the 'physical elimination' of the Indonesian Communist Party." "He w'ent on: 'Ii was quick death, at night. We surrounded their homes and killed everyone inside. The British daily Guardian of April 7, in a report with knives.. though the troops occasionaily shot by Nicholas Turner from Djakarta, under the heading anyone trying to escape. In al1 we killed about "Indonesian Political Killings May Exceed 300.000," 3,000. We threw their bodies into the river or into said: "Estimates of the total number of Indonesians the jungle."' killed in political massacres after the attempted coup The report added: "The man smiled and added on September 30 are being revised as fuller inforrna* almost genUy: 'We had to make sure we got everyone tion ccmes in from outer regions. One Western am- this time, so there would be no come-back... that bassador considers 300,000 to be a conservative estimate, is why we took the whole family.' and other compilations run far higher. "The man did not boast, nor, I think, did he lie.'! "A traveller who knorn s the island of Bali well, and speaks the language describes mass executions and the annihilation of village a{ter village in The Mossocre Hos Not Yet Ended some areas. A consular cfficial in Surabaja accepts a figure of 200,000 for Bali, rvhich has a popuiation The l,-ers York Timss of April 13 published an of 2 million. article by C.L Sulzberger dateLined Djakarta r.vhich "Estimates of the dead in Sumatra also range said: "One of history's most vicious massacres has around 200,000 and a similar figure for Java is not yet ended in Indonesia. More people have been generaily regarded as on the low side. When the slaughter-ed here during the past six months than in death tolls for other isiands such as Borneo (Kaliman- the entire Vietnam war. It is impossible to give any tan) and Sulau,'esi are added, the total may s"11 5" precise figure on the number slain. One careful diplouprvards of 600,000. Just how many of these are matic estimate puts the total at 300,000. Others range Communists is another qucstion. higher. "It appears certain that the great majority of the "This tranqu.il capital ealls the significar-rt dead rvere innocent victims of political hystet'ia. poiitical revolution [the n-rilitary coup d'etat staged by Many others pr-obabiy died, in settlement of personal the Right-u'ing genelals' clique to seize state por'ver] feuds and vendettas during the confusion.... a 'Javanese coultesy coup.' It politely ieft President Sukarno rvith the appearance of porrer rvhile stripping "In scme areas, Communist suspects tt ere shot or him of its realitl'. poiscned. but usuall.v the \{osiem 1-ouih bel:eaded its victims rvith the parang.... The heads rrere oiten "But there is nothing courteous about the mass impaled on fences and gateposts.... bloodshed that has raged and still rages in the hinter'- Iar.rd. Officials seek to nrinimize its scope and clain'r "Rivers in many parts of the country rrere clogged the ghastly episodc is closed. Neverlheless, alotrg an."vith corpses for weeks. A European resident of Sura- immense island arc from Sumatra to Timor, the killing baja describes finding bodies washed up by the river attained a volume impressive even in violent Asia. on to his back garden." "In February public beheadings were still being held outside Ende, capital of Flores Island. Each night Killing Everyone In Sight; Whole Fomilies soldiers were trucking groups of 20 or more P.K.I. Sloughtered suspeets from the prison and out of town to decapitate The London Times of April 13 published a repor-t them with hsslry machetes. by its special correspondent who l-rad recently becn in "Men have been slain together r,vith their wives Indcnesia. Under the heading "Reign of Terror in and children to reduee chances of later revenge by Java," it said: "The highest figure for the mass kill- eliminating complainants. ings given to me by an Indonesian general r.vas 150,000; "Near coastal Surabava early riser:s in March were scnre dip)orrratists ate prepared to believe 500.000.... pushing bodies away from the jetties before their "A huge number of people were killed, almcst houses. Jails near Jogjakarta are said still to be without trace in this gleat and silent country. crammed with P.K.L suspects who are not tried but "By the time I arrived in Indonesia, eyewitness taken out in nightly batches and killed. accounts of the killings rvere hai'd to come by first- "Unburied bodies recently littered viliage streets hantJ. It was coinciclence lhat a matr I met from Ccn- in Central Java. Recently a traveller u'as told of a tral Java was suddenly persuacled 'for the sake of bu]lock cart ]oaded with human heads." April 29, 1958 Z7 === [PDF page 28] === Peking Rally Firm Support for Dominicon People's Po triotic, Anti-U.S. Struggle A YEAR ago, the patriotic Dominican armymen and "ceasefire," "negotiations" and the act of "reconciliala' people staged an armed uprising in which the tion," and other tricks, Many patriots, refusing to traitorous Cabral dictatorship lvas toppled overnight, hand over their weapons to the enemy, '*'ere determined thus dealing a heavy blou' to U.S. imperialist rule in to go to the mountains and the countryside to mobilize this Caribbean island counlry. This popular uprising the masses and prepared for protracted armed struggle' has met lvith the suppression and armed intervention of Liao Cheng-chih pointed out that although the United the Johnson Administration. But the heroic Dominican States had used the bulk of the strength of tlvo of the people have not taken things i;,ing dorvn, their struggle eight combat dir.,isions lvhich were its only available against the U.S. invaders over the past year has surged forces a'u home, it had failed to subdue the Dominican f orward. people who number just over 3 miIlion. In Peking, more than 1.500 people from all r.valks What does all this mean? Liao Cheng-chih said that of life held a meeting on April 26 to voice their firm the Dominican people's struggle once again demonstrated support for the patriotic anti-U.S. struggie of the the invincibility of an oppressed nation. big or srnall, Dominican people. The rally, part of the Chinese peo- once it had aruakened. clearll' knerv rvho its enemy was ple's activities during the solidarity with the Dominican and ll,as deterrnined to rvage a tit-for-tat struggle against people lveek ending April 30, rvas attended by Vice- him. Premier Po I-po, Vice-Chairman Liu Ning-I of the It. Liao Cheng-chih continued, also demonstrated Standing Committee of the National People's Congress that unless they have guns of their own, the people and friends from n:ore than 40 countries. could not have their say, nor couid they advance and A resolution in support of the struggle was adopted. win their struggle. "An armed people is like a vast It condemned Washington's aggression against the ocean which the enemy is afraid of." Dominican Republic and pledged that the Chinese people "To deal with and defeat powerful enemies at home would alu,ays stand by their Dominican brothers and and abroad it is necessary to form the broadest patriotic both would support each other and march forward and revolutionary united front against imperialisrn together. based on the unit;, of the revolutionary people." This U.S. irnperialism was the most ferocious enemy of was another truth which the struggie of the Dominican the peoples of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the u,hole peopJ"e had demonstrated, he said. rr,,orld, the resoiutioir said. The people of the rn orld, including the American people, should form the broadest How to Defeot U.S.!mperiolism and most genuine international united front against Speaking o{ thc excellent situation in the people's U.S. imperialism and its lackeys, and wage an unremitstruggle against U.S. imperialism throughout the world, ting struggle against them until their complete defeat. Liao Cheng-chih said that he was convinced that it was The resolution declared that oppcsition to U.S. imentirely possible to defeat U.S. imperialism and smash perialisrn'and its henchmen and suppcrt for the revoluits pclicies of u-ar and aggression. pr-ovided tionaiy movements of the peoples demanded the *the pecpies are arrned rvith the idea of people's war thorough exposure of the capitulationist and splittist activities of the Soviet modern rer,'isionists, whom. as in confronting the rcunter-revolutionary armed forces accomplices and coilaborators of imperialism, a resolute of U.S. imperiaiism and its lackeys; *all the oppressed nations and peoples a-* rvell as stluggle must also be rvaged against. "A11 traitors to the revoiuticnary cause rviil be severely punished by all the countries subjected to U.S. imperialist aggression, history," the resolution said. control, intervention, subversion or builying unite to form and develop the broadest possible, and not a nar- Truth Shown by the Dorninicon Struggle rou,, internationai united front, a truly genuine and not The rally r,r'as addressed by Liao Cheng-chih, Vice- a sham one, against U.S. imperialism and its lackeys. Chairman of the China Peace Committee and Chairman In brief, Liao Cheng-chih said ihat two weapons were of the Chinese Cornmittee for Afro-Asian Solidarity, and needed for the people of the rvorid to defeat U.S. imfriends from Latin America, Asia and Africa. periaiism, namely, people's -uvar and a united front. In the past 1'ear. Liao Cheng-chih recalled, the Struggle Agoinst Modern Revisionism Dominican people had neither been cou'ed by the sanguinar;r suppression by the U.S. aggressor troops There are also the modern revisionists to deal u'ith. nor lullecl by the political schemes of the enemy the Liao Cheng-chih gave a brief account of the disgracefui 28 Peking Reui,eut, No. 18 === [PDF page 29] === role played by the Soviet revisionists on the question of the Congo (Leopoldville) a cruel b1ow. In Asia, the 1ib- U.S. aggression against the Dominican Republic the eration of the heroic Vietnamese people was to an extent role of a "fire brigade" trying to help U.S. imperialism affected by the fact that it was the revisionists who extinguish the revolutionary flames. At the United Na- made it possib.ie for U.S. imperialism to move its troops tions Security Council, the Soviet representative time from Europe to Asia to fight against the valiant Vietand again agreed to proposals delal-ing the discussion namese people, he observed. At the Tri-Continental and the voting on the withdratval of U.S. troops from Conference held in Havana not long ago, the Soviet the Dominican Republic, thus giving a free hand to the delegate had refused to condemn U.S. imperialism, U.S. aggressors in slaughtering the patriotic Dominican colonialism and neo-colonialism. The revisionists' comarmymen and people. plicity served to prolong the sufferings of the oppressed Later, he recalled, together with the U.S. imperial- peoples. ists, the Soviet representative voted for the resolution The historical current encompassing the contemcalling for a "ceasefire" and the dispatch of a so-called pcrary \,\,orld is, he declared, "not to be cailed an U.N. fact-finding mission to the victimized island re- 'atomic era,' but an 'era of people's 'war.'" This was pu-b.lic, thus providing a cover for the U.S. aggressors in because "neither the shameful traces ieft over by forcing the Dominican people to lay down their arms. atcmic bombs, nor the revisionist policies of peaceful coexistence, compelition and transition can change the This record of shameful deeds, said Liao Cheng-chih, showed hov,, low the Soviet leadership had sunk and rvorld. The world can really be changed only when the peoples of the rvorld have defeated imperialism by that it rvas actually betraying the revolutionary cause of people's ivar." Quoting Chairman Mao Tse-tung's the people of the world. These deeds, too, he sairi, thesis that imperialism and all reactionaries are paper showed that the United Nations u'as nothing but a place tigers rvhile it is. in the long run. the people $-ho are for the United States and the Soviet Union to make strong, Ernesto Pimentel affirmed that the people who political deals aimed at U.S.-Soviet collaboration for were educating themselves in proletarian ideology and world domination. They provided yet another evidence u.ho were developing their liberation movement, are of U.S.-Soviet "united action" against the revolutionary "our sustenance, the sorlrce of our strength to resist. to people of the world. "The Soviet leadels cannot possibly advance and to achieve and consolidate our victory." evade their responsibility for the outrageons U.S. He stated that only through armed struggle would imslai;-ghter of the Dominican people." perialism finally be expelled from his country. Liao Cheng-chih also recalied that at the Tri-Con- Speaking of the worldrvide support for his people's tinental People's Solidarity Ccnference, the Soviet struggle, Pimentel said that Chairman Mao Tse-tung's delegate had hypocritically shouted a few, empty words May 12. 1965 statement supporting the Dominican peoof support for the anti-imperialist struggle of the L,atin ple's resistance. the Chinese governtnent statemeut of Arnerican people. But the Soviet authorities. later in &Ia1, 3. 1965 condemning U.S. armed aggression against a note to the Uruguayan Government. pub1ic11- stated his ccuntrr-. and the demcnstration by the Chinese peothat the activities of the Soviet delegation at ihe coE- ple s-ere proof of the firm stand of the Chinese Party. ference in no u-a1' represented the vieri's of the Sor-iet Government and people to back the national-liberation Government! "This is another graphic self-exposure of mcvements throughout the u,orld. It rvas this firm the Soviet revisionists in their trick of shane opposition stand that had rnade them the eentre of the world rer.oto imperialism but real capituiation, sham support but Iution, he said. real betrayal and sham unity but real spiit." Pointing to the fact that the present is lhe eve of a Three Basic Revolutionary Factors. Others who spoke riew revolutionar;r storm of the people of the worid, u,'ere Jorge Pacull of Chile, Nguyen Minh Phuong, Liao Cheng-chih declared: "The historical tide of the Deputy Leader of the Permanent Mission of the Soutlr great Latin Anterican peopie's revolution cannot be Vietnam National Front for Libegation to China, and ol:,structsd by either U.S. imperialism or modern rerri- Ramazani Sebastien, representative of the National sicnism, or by those anti-Chinese heroes who ale trying Ccuncil for the Liberation of the Congo (L). Pacull to look imposing and posing as revolutionary leaders." said: There u,as only one reply to the aggressors: titfor-tat struggle, and violence for rri<llence. Here, the three basic rerrolutionary factors must be applied: a Voice of the lotin Arnericon People Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Party, an anti-imperialist Ernesto Fimentel, representative of the Dominican and revolutionary united front and armed struggle. He June i4th Revolutionary Mcrrement, also took the floor. also stressed that in defeating U.S. imperialism it was He too exposed the ugly features of modern revisicnism. e:rsential to defeat its accomplices the reconciliators, T'he insolence and concrete aggression by the Johnson the ccmpromis:ers and the modern -revisionists. Administration against the sorrereigntv and seif-cleter- Ec'Lh Nguyen I\{inh Phuong and Ramazani Sebastien minaticn of the p.eople were treated u,ith indifferer-rce accused U.S. imperialism of heinous crimes against their and timidiiy by the modern revisionists, he said. Wlth or.t,n ccuntries. They both expiressed their solidaritv the complicity of the revisionists in the United IVa- u,ith the Dominican people fighting their common enemy tions, the U.N. forces dealt the struggle of the people of U.S. imperialism. April 29, 1966,o === [PDF page 30] === Reporf From Earthquake Ares Tlre People lndomitoble On March B, a strong earthquake struck Hsingtai In several of the hardest-hit villages, I heard comin Hopei Province, north China. Two more strong mune functionaries and peasants say: "Never mind tremdrs came on March 22, affecting other areas of the earthquakes. We'l1 get on with the work a1l the scuthern Hopei as well as Hsingtai. same." Local Party organizations ied the people in im- I spoke to trro peasants, Li Ching-hai and Chai mediate action to combat the effects of the earth- Ho-chun. s-ho had been sinking a r,veitr on March 22. -crrlakes. Rescue units from the People's Liberation TheS- heard the noise and rushed back to the village, Ar.my rushed to the scene. [,Ien of one detachment u'hich q-as shrouded in a pali of dust. Finding no ran th,e last 15 Ii to a stricken village. Air Force one injured. they n-ent straight back to the fields. They helicopters brought medical workers and supplies" *-ere determined to have the rvell ready before the Foo.d. buiiding materials and other goods followed. spring drought set in. On behalf of the Communist Party's Central Com- Ho Chuan-sheng, the vice-chairman of a production mrttee, Chairman Mao and the State Council, central brigade's poor and lower-middle peasants' association, delegations visited the people in the affected areas to was knocked unconscious and sustained injuries from convey sympathy and provide support. From Shanghai a crumbling wall. I interviewed him in his sick bed. to Tibet came telegrams and messages. Al1 China was with them. His mind was all on his village. "Earthquake or no earthqr-iake," he said, "I've got to go back to my And how did the people thernselves react to the w-ork and help rebuild the houses." calamity? How do they live today and ho-;r do they work? To answer these quesiicns, a Hsinhua cor- Jen Tseng-shan, a commune Party secretary, told responclent r.vent dorvn to Hsingtai, the epicentre of me: "It's true that many of the houses collapsed. T'he the ll{arch B shock. He was there.when the March 22 important thing is that the people survived. With earthquakes occurred. Here is his report. people, we have everything." - I u,as deepiy impressed with these words and deeds. I rvas strongly moved by the spirlt displayed rFWO huge slogans painted in whitewash on the slopes r of the river dyke jumped to meet my eyes. by these men. They show the iofty inner rn'orld of people in Mao Tse-tung's era. Even earthquakes were They deciared: "Mao Tse-tung's thinking is the rnost impotent before them. powerful w-eapon against earthquakesl" and "Earthquakes don't defeat heroic people!" At a gaihering Organizotion of thousands, I saw a county Communist Party secretary, with cienched fist upraised, Iead the peopie in )Vlany places showed revolutionary fortitude and a mighty shout of "The earth may quake, but not our orga.nrzational efficiency rnhich are outstanding features hearts; our hcmes may fall, but not our rvill!" A of the socialist system and which are only possible Pariy member told me: "Fight bacir, that's the only among people of high political consciousness. thing for earthquakes or any other difficulty!" In one viiiage with a pcpulation of 3,200 which I was in Hsingtai s,hen two strong earthquakes was heavily hit on March 22, hundreds of makeshift occurred in the afternoon of March 22. A11 of a sudden, huts and tents had already been rigged up by the time the earth rocked and a rumbling noise filied the air. I got ihere. Smoke was curling skyward from tem- Houses in the village crumbled in clor-rds of clust. In porary stoves. Some of the peasants were repairing the fields, mu-ddy water sprouted up from urider- farm tools, others rvere preparing su,eet potato shoots ground. for pia.nting or carting timber and bricks to clearings a.lnong the debris where hou,se rebuiicling s'or-rld soon Fortitude gL.t under $/ay. At the threshing ground, a meeting Among the villagers, holtr ever, I sar;i' no signs of orga.nized by the Partl- bi'anch to discuss the problems panic, only organized action. Rescue work began rn- of r:ecclstruction q'as being held. mediately and was carried out with discipline ancl I l-as toki that. after the March 8 earthquake, peoefficiency. Farmwork was resunled soon dfterwarcls. ple here had made detailed arrangements against the Nowhere did I find people who were crushed or heart- event of further tremors. They put into practice broken. Their morale lvas high and they lvere work- Chairman I\{ao's idea of "despising the enemy strateing in the spirit of Chairman Mao's,call issued long gicaliy and taking him seriously tactically." There ago to "surmount every difficulty to win victory.,, were many villages like this. Collective strength had 30 Peking Reoieu, lVo. I& === [PDF page 31] === been fully drawn upon to organize against the caprices of nature. In another production brigade, I interviewed the 62-year-old peasant Li Jen-tang, who looks after the brigade's draught animals. After the March 8 shock, he sought for the quickest way to save the animals should another shock come. He kept a sharp knife hand;'. When the first strong tremor occurred on March 22, he cut all the tethers quickly and drove the animals to safety before the second and stronger tremor came eight minutes Iater. The peasants w,ere full of praise for him. They said that his revolutionary alertness was "sharper than his knife." In those same eight minutes, Shortly after the earthquakes, the peoptre lvere baek in the fields. On many other:s ignored their own saf,ety the blackboard is chalked a quotaLion from Chairrnan Mao: "In times for the sake of the collective. In a of diffieulty we must not lose sig:hi of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.,, village school room rvhere there were 30 children, teacher Fu Ting-yin propped up a falling beam to allow his pupils to get frorn the fields." Cadres and former poor and lowerout. In another village, a platoon of militiamen at great middle peasants of another commune unanimously p.^rsonal risk search,ed every house and helped all th,e decided to turn the "earthquake year" into a "bumper old peopie and ehildren to safety. harvest year." These words were being borne out in action. . Self-Relionce Throughout the affected areas, a battle has started to Relief supplies have been pouring in and the peo- wrest high yieids from nature this year'. Pea-"- ple have been greatly moved by the immense material ants of one county u,hose several hundred ne\vly built aid as weil as sympathetic encouragement they have irrigation ditches had suffered varying degrees oi received. dan-rage \yent tc rvork on them the second da1' after the trerncrs. In ts-o n-rore da5;s all u-ere repaired and Yet I heard of many places u,hich prefer-red to again in use. One production brigade. after drarving rely on their or,vn resources in order to pass relief everybody into a discussion on what measures should supplies on to others. One story led me to a produc- be taken, confidently raised its planned output of glain ticn brigade u,hich had refused to accept a large by another 100 jin per nxu and that of cotton by quantity of da bing, a favourite north China food made another 20 jin. frcm flour and water. The brigade forwarded them to another brigade, which in turn passed them on to Just before I left, preparations for spring plougha third. ing were in full swing. In 'the l,l,heat fields, people were busily weeding, watering and spreading fertilizer. One village with only 62 households sent out a In the villages, sawmills sounded their high screeching resounding call: "Thanks for the help, but we can notes and blacksmith's hammers struck up a chorus. get up on to our feet ourselves!" A11 the houses in Rows of ng11z, ternporary buildings had arisen. Redthis brigade came down. But the people weren't scarved children were on their way to school. Shcps dcwnhearted. When I got there, they were drarving were looking after their customers. up blueprints to build a new and better socialist village. Chairman l![ao Tse-tung once r,vrote: "How has Construction had already started, and even the children mankind managed to keep alive from time immemowere helping to carrly bricks and plaster. rial? Has it not been by men using their hands to Such spirit and energy carried home to me the prorride for thernselves?" He has always called upon truth of the 'ivords of one commune Party secretary the Chinese people to display a spirit of self-reliance who said: "Material aid is limited; the porver of our and enterprise. The idea has gripped the minds of two hands is unlimited. And our spiritual wealth is the people and has become a great material force'. evengreatet,...'7 That this is so is evident today in the earthquake area. It can be confidently expected that people here will Confidence soon make their land more prosperous and beautiful One peasant told a deputation from the govern- than ever before. ment: "What we lost in the earthquakes, we'Il recover }I,SINIIUA CORRESPONDEN" April 29, 1966 31 === [PDF page 32] === PIA Boeing 7208 Fan-Jets fly in and out of Canton and Shanghai twice weekly Visit the Chinese Export Commodities Fair Canton, April 15-May 15 nin = railway SHANGHA| KHATMANDU ‘A CANTONS HONG KONG PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES WESTBOUND INTERNATIONAL SCHEDULE 8Y BOEING 720-8 EFFECTIVE: Ist MARCH, 1966 HRS. DAYS ay GQ) (3) (4) (ay (6) (6) gy [Unreadable] cmt | CLASS woloey | ay | ey | gy FY RY | FY 48 | SHANGHAI | DEP 2030 2000 REMAR: 4 @ | CANTON ARR 2150 7 CANTON Der 0 (A) ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE. TIMES AT he @ CAIRO. 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OCR errors remain. === [PDF page 1] === PEKING REVIEW April 29, 1966 Hold High the Great Red Banner of Mao Tse-tung's Thinking; Actively Participate in the Great Socialist Cultural Revolution Afro-Asian Journalists' Association Secretariat Meeting in Peking === [PDF page 2] === PEKING REVIEW Vol. 9, No. 18 Published in English, French, Spanish, Japanese and German editions [Unreadable] THE WEEK Albanian Party and Government Delegation Welcomed; China Commemorates Lenin's 96th Birthday Anniversary; Tanzania's National Day; Vice-Premier Li Hsien-nien Visits Cambodia (p. 3) ARTICLES AND DOCUMENTS Hold High the Great Red Banner of Mao Tse-tung's Thinking; Actively Participate in the Great Socialist Cultural Revolution (p. 5) A Major Victory for China's Foreign Policy of Peace -- Renmin Ribao Editorial (p. 10) A.A.J.A. Secretariat Meets in Peking -- Our Correspondent (p. 12) Communique of the A.A.J.A. Secretariat Meeting (p. 13) General Report by Djawoto (p. 16) The Five-Starred Red Flag Is Inviolable (p. 19) Strongest Protests Against Indonesian Government's Deliberate Anti-China Outrages (p. 21) Indonesian Government -- Organizer of the Anti-China Outrages -- Renmin Ribao Commentator (p. 23) Right-Wing Reactionaries Plunge Indonesia Into a Bloodbath (p. 25)