His imperialist enemies pictured him as a hardened killer. But he always stressed that revolutionary violence was only the necessary response to the violence of the oppressors.
He said in an interview in 198l:
"The result of this inhuman war the depopulation of entire areas. Even someone who is hardened to seing peo. ple suffer so much struck by how many comStates has been to the fore the United al tully Nations and other internatonal lorums is aie the recognition the proVietnamese Heng Samrin government continued weeds. Beautiful little houses left can see the care that the peasants peases. Al of this, their all of it, covered with weeds. All the furniture, whatever these humble peasants had, burned. Dozens and dozens of villages like this over a huge area.' When the murderous thugs responsible for this carnage fall, as they soon will, allt art lorgulen. Salyador Cayetano Carpio will be remembered as a crucial inspirer organiser of victory.
the Chinese have sponsored the right wing Kampuchean rebels, particular courted Prince Sihanouk.
Maintaining 'Chinese influence' in the region apparentiy means backing the most reactionary and barbaric forces.
Most critical of all, in oraer to put the Vietnamese under pressure the Chinese began al lil y series of attacks on Vietnamese border positions.
Defeat The United States has never reconciled itself to humiliating defeat Vietnam. Its support for the Khmer Rouge is part against social economic successes of the Vietnamese revolution In the present conflict the issues are clear. While the Vietnamese cannot forever substitute dent and sovereign pucnca presen fighting has clearly been provoked by imperialist and ro-imperialist aggressio