Black Panther Party of Northern California - Freedom Archives

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THE WH~TTE~ MAN' S SNF.NIY
.~.Inter~riew with Brother Nguyen
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-8~~ .;~,eft :~:Vietnnar -.i.n x~b~'' to . st'~dy
vD. _.p~3S ~, `FXail~e~ '`Hfr~. J ~Opo ~7:Qtb+e1' 8 ,
arr~ also iri` Paris . His mother is
stiff.~~i,n' Saigon. Nguyen's "fath~!~tw
was wmauled . in 2948 while fighting
the , Ak~nch impexialists who peace" . .
ded the~~Americsns in Southeast Asia .
"The pre~aence of Americans in Vf- .
etnam," said Nguyen, "is not justi"
Pied by the Geneva accords (which
temporarily divided Vietnam into
two hectors ---North b South--"until
electi~pns) nor by the will of the
Vietnanlgse people . `'.' . The ~' .Amo~cfcans
are t2~oxe because of the Saigon
group who :wants' PO~t eac3 Dt1i,L:AR3 .,"
Ngu~ren , ~Cescic~ibed- the present gov-
e~umen~ :',fin Saigon as . ..~erely . puppets .
`' United States. He
his peopl8 into three"
(1) ~ the:- , pepple who pro~-
want peace and who reaa
is the cause of wax;
le wha live as the o-
t~ers a1~t wci'~k fox the National
)aberatibn Facoi , ,, "You can see
`the presence of~the . thixd gzoup in
~'he villagos st~d+exed by the Ame-
~ica s as frier:dly, Some nights
he army comes snd easily occu..
pies the village with the help of
most ; of the population . The NLF
-,s ;. . . ... . . .
F,~tIEND , :-.~_ . .~
__ of Saigon, Viet~aamj~~.~_ .`
Eiy MasgiPWC ~ A .H,* , ,1387 . : ,
bombarded : Da ;l~a~g with artill~rry~~
installed less than ~. kilometer
Pram the base . It ,~,s i~ipossible fi~'~
stage` ~ an attack ` this ~~ close ~rw;:h.ou~~.
the help .,+~~f the papu] ation ..
"The Na~iai~a]:' L:ibe~r~r~fi~'.Front is
not simply ~ guerril.fa ~inovement"
Nguyett painted aut .. ., When . one studies
the otganizactisrn of . the Ari:..F
administration 3n liberated areas, .
you will see it has the s~tructu~e
of a democratic state a"
He painted out how the NLr has - .
raised the national consc:icrxsness
of the various minorities who previously
didn'±~ consider themselves
a pant of Vietnam . "The effoxts of
the NLF, : to give instructiz~n to the
minorities in the mountains and
bring them the technique of modern
agriculture is an examp~,~e of the
NLF's ;. concern `for a~a "ch~:> peop~:e~r .~
The Saigon .gogexnment did nothing
for the .minoxities . The Ni.,F don't
segregate between the minorities
and other Vietnamese . As a xesult, -the
minorities have consciousness
they axe fightimg for the whole o~f
Vietnams Before, the mino~rit es 'had
no conscious that their country was
Vietnam. Foac them also, indePe:xdence
from U. S, imperialism is a
concern, ~ NoHr- -~ 4hey see that they