Government Hoists Flag of
Vietnam's Defeated Colonial
Powers on Parliament Hill
CPC(M-L) Condemns Government's Promotion of Division and Hatred
Shameful ceremony held on Parliament Hill, July
30, 2020 to mark "Journey to Freedom Day."
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
unequivocally condemns the ceremony held on July 30 on
Parliament
Hill to mark the reactionary and illegitimate "Journey to Freedom Day."
The event was postponed from April 30, a date that has long been
celebrated in Vietnam and the world over as Vietnam's Reunification
Day. The ceremony included the raising of the old colonial flag of the
reactionary and collaborationist regime that the Vietnamese people
deposed in 1975.
On that day CPC(M-L) put out a statement which
reads as follows:
This is an unacceptable event that seeks to
rewrite the historic verdict of the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, undermine
relations with Vietnam and sow divisions among Canadians of Vietnamese
origin today.
The Government of Canada calls April 30 "Journey
to Freedom Day"[1]
to portray all Vietnamese who live in Canada as those who have escaped
tyranny. It is as self-serving as it is false. In fact, some of the
people escaped because of the crimes they committed on the side of the
U.S. imperialists. They are the ones behind the promotion of the flag
of the old colonial regime.
The ceremony seeks to cover up that it was not the
communists who divided Vietnam, dropped agent orange and committed all
the other crimes against the people. It was the U.S. imperialists.[2]
Hoisting the old colonial flag on Parliament Hill
is for purposes of giving free rein to the hatred of these dregs from
the U.S. imperialist regime in Saigon. The rendering in Vietnamese of
"Journey to Freedom" translates back into English as "national hatred
day." It goes against everything Canadians value and stand for.
Canada has no business enabling attempts to foment
hatred and anti-communism against the Government of Vietnam and to
divide Canadians on this basis.
This is a time when monuments and symbols which
exalt
slavery and genocide are being brought down all over the world,
including in Canada whose own history and foundation are tainted with
countless acts of genocide, slavery and inhuman treatment which
continues to this day. It is beyond the pale to hoist flags which exalt
the use of napalm and agent orange against the Vietnamese people under
the hoax that it can be justified in the name of "freedom from
communist tyranny." And this is done on the eve of the 75th anniversary
of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States
which were crimes against humanity of like kind, also committed in the
name of freedom, peace and democracy.
Furthermore, those who support this so-called
Journey to Freedom Day are the same forces behind the construction of
an anti-communist memorial in Ottawa which is a pathetic attempt to
rehabilitate Nazi collaborators as freedom fighters, to promote hatred
of the Soviet Union and Soviet peoples who bore the brunt of the
sacrifices made by the peoples of the world, including many Canadians,
to achieve peace, freedom and democracy during World War Two, as well
as to oppose all those who fought for national liberation and to decide
their own way of life without outside interference.
Canada and Vietnam have nearly 50 years of ongoing
diplomatic relations. How does it strengthen the bonds of friendship
between our two countries and our two peoples to exalt symbols of
colonial oppression and genocide? How does it bring honour to Canada at
home or abroad?
Canadians from coast to coast, from all walks of
life, stood second to none along with peace- and justice-loving peoples
the world over, in opposing the U.S. aggression against Vietnam. Many
Canadians came to this country to dodge the draft or escape the
punishment meted out to those who deserted the U.S. armed forces
because their conscience would not permit them to commit the crimes
which they were ordered to carry out by the U.S. against the Vietnamese
people.
CPC(M-L) expresses deep regret that the Government
of Canada thinks it has the right to hoist the flag which represents
the regime that collaborated with the U.S. warmongers in their war of
aggression against Vietnam.
Let us unite with the people of Vietnam and build
genuine friendship between Canada and Vietnam!
Notes
1. At the
instigation of
reactionary elements who collaborated with the U.S. aggressors in
Vietnam and were given refuge in Canada when they escaped, the
government of Stephen Harper declared April 30 "Journey to Freedom Day"
despite the formal protest of the Government of Vietnam and its embassy
in Ottawa, along with the expressed opposition of many Canadians who
supported the Vietnamese people during the Vietnam war, including those
who found refuge in Canada from the U.S. draft and crimes against
humanity it was committing in Vietnam. Canadians continue to hold dear
the relations of friendship between the peoples of Canada and Vietnam.
2. The
anti-communists who promote the yellow flag collaborated with the U.S.
regime, themselves committed crimes against the people, and then went
all out to save themselves, calling their exit "a journey to freedom."
Some were major drug lords or were those who trafficked women and
children and conciliated with heinous crimes against the people.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 28 - August 1, 2020
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Government Hoists Flag of
Vietnam's Defeated Colonial : CPC(M-L) Condemns Government's Promotion of Division and Hatred
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