On liberation anniversary
Vietnam condemns U.S./NATO war
The following statement appeared on April 30 in Quan Doi
Nhan Dan, official newspaper of the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam. It marked the 24th anniversary of the
liberation of south Vietnam. On April 30, 1975, the Vietnamese
drove the last U.S. military forces out of Saigon.
"In the spirit of resistance shown by the Yugoslav people,
the Vietnam War provides a lesson and a warning for whichever
powerful aggressor chooses to take up arms against a small
state.
"The Vietnam War ended 24 years ago, but this event from the
past is a useful lesson for the present and the future," Quan
Doi Nhan Dan said, accusing the U.S. and NATO of leading "an
atrocious genocidal war in Yugoslavia.
"It is regrettable that the United States and NATO have not
learned any lessons from the Vietnamese victories against the
soldiers of France (in 1954) and America (1975) which had led
them to commit their errors of today.
"The war in Yugoslavia under lines the Vietnamese lesson and
Yugoslavia has shown anew that no force, however strong, can
make another nation submit to its whims through use of
violence."
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