Filed 'liberated areas have been overrun.
om China.
The bases on the Thai order operated by counter-revolution1 groupings, the largest ard strongest Wacos Fraded by Pol Pot who riled Kampuchea 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot's Turderous Khmer Rouge regime was overthrown in 1979 by Vietnamese troops Kampuchean insurgents.
The name of Pol Pol has subsequently become synonymous with mass murder, deliberate vation of millions, and the destruction oi ali civilKauon including cities and Under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, several million Kampucheans crisped as victims oi ex. ecutions, starvation discase.
For six years, supportets ci Pol Pot have operating from these bases workers do. conomic dacers and crops in Kampuchea. They have forced the diversion of massive amounts of resources from both Kampuchea Vietnam order to defend themselves gainst these attacks. OUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY guerrillas fighting e government of Kampuchea have suffered a severe feat at the hands of Vietnamese and Kampuchean oops. All but one or so base camps along the Thaiampuchean border have been smashed and the soThis is despite the fact that these right wing bands e receiving massive financial, political and military d from the US, the pro-imperialist Thai regime, and This record HOL stopped imperialism from funding this murderous outfit. major achievement this offensive, which began on 16 November, has been the destruction of all Khmer supposedly impregnable base of Phnom Malai.
Despite claims British press, the Vietnamvictories have been WILl civilian casualties. This has been because deliberate policy decision the Vietnamese Kampuchean forces. An example of this was the taking of the Ampil base, cong olmer Peoples Liber- controlled the right ation Front (KPNLF).
This was defended by 5000 guerrillas but was quickiy overrun bv a much smaller group of Kampuchean and Vietnamese troops even though the Kampucheans Vietnamese didn't join battle until after the evacuation of 23,000 civilians.
Despite these victories, the toll in terms of economic destruction and loss of life will not be ended. Most of the guerrillas have been given sanctuary Thailand and the US has picugea an incrcase In ald to them. They are now rethe open aim of launching guerrilla raids across the much the same fashion as with the so-called contra raids into Nicaragua.
Peking nas l pledged too continuing aid to the battered guerrillas. The canese foreign ministry was as quick as the US pro counter-evolutionary counter-revolutionary coalition 'in all ways'.
Indeed, during the present offensive against the rightists, the Chinese border attacks against. Vietnam in order to help release the pressure on the The Vietnamese govern massive Chinese shelling of VietHalli during period; and that China has massed intantry divisions and 1000 aircraft on the VietHalesc border. Several small-scale incursions have been made into Vietnam Prince Sihanouk, exKampuchean head of state major ally the Khmer Rouge , speaking in Bangkok, called the Chinese government "save the rightist guerrillas with a second invasion of declaring China must "fight now.
But that China received a bloody 1981. It will need much stronger CEO fronation rhea to Cietrontation winne Kampuchean government Troops reyes en route to the Thai border namese army - one of the battle-hardened the world. Instead, Peking with lavoul imperialism, claiming to be giving Vietnam 'due attacks along shynets attacks along the na mese border This bravado cannot disguise Ine lact that in these recent the joint aims of Washington and Peking have suffered a sharp serback.