POPULAR DEFENCE MEMBERS CROSS OVER More than 21,000 "popular defence" members in Central Nam Co have crossed over to the people's side in the past five months of simultaneous offensive and uprising of the South VietNam patriotic forces. In the period under review there were over 100 collective mutinies during which the revolted "popular defence" members killed their cruel commanders and went over to the revolutionary side. In co-ordination with the people, more than 100 "popular defence" members overran enemy concentration camps, then left for the liberated areas.
BIEN HOA VICTORY The Liberation Armed Forces in Bien Hoa province mounted attacks on the Bien Hoa airfield on the night of August 1 and the Long Binh storages on August 13. Th Bien Hoa airfield, the P.L.A.F.: - wiped out 517 U.S. and puppet troops, including one U.S. general and 20 U,S. "advisers, and 46 puppet staff commanders, 39 pilots and 103 technicians, - heavily decimated 3 U.S. and Saigon battalions and, - destroyed on the ground 74 aircraft including 29 jets, 33 helicopters, six fighter-bombers, two shinooks, two L. 19 and two OV. 10 reconnaissance planes, gutted 13 military vehicles, razed to the ground one radar station and one radio centre, exploded one napalm bomb depot, one ammunition dump, two gasoline depots and two depots of hardwares, burnt down two hangars, two bomb- loading houses, 24 barracks and one big food storage. - All the activities in the airfield were help up for 5 days.
SOUTH KOREAN MERCENARIES MASSACRE VILLAGERS A company of the Pak Jung Hi "Tiger" Division (South Korean) stationed in Xuan Son village, Cong Xuan district, Phu Yen province, massacred 27 civilians in a ratding operation in the village on July 30 and 31. Enemy aircraft and artillery had wantonly bombed and shelled the village, killing six civilians, to clear the way for the operation. The raiders broke into the hamlets comprising the village and shot many persons dead in their homes. The Pak Jing Hi mercenaries gathered many other civilians in an outdoor place, then opened fire. Twenty-one of the victims were old persons, women and children.
TRADE UNION STATEMENT The South VietNam Liberation Federation of Trade Unions, on August 29, issued a statement denouncing crimes against workers. The statement noted, first of all, that many firms and workshops have reduced their activities or closed down completely, laying off many workers. In the first week of July alone, employers in Saigon dismissed one thousand workers, Among the companies involved were the USAID firm, the Sicovina Textile Mill and the Shell Oil Company. Secondly; the Trade Union Federation noted that about 40% of the workers in the areas under U.S. puppet control are currently unemployed. Thus life is quite precarious for the working people of South Viet Nam a bitter consequence of the U.S. policy of "Vietnamization".
Thirdly, the statement noted that Thieu has been forcing working men from 17 to 43 years old to join the army. This is part of his programme to step up forcible conscription and to "upgrade" paramilitary forces into the regular army. Taken from the Information Bulletins put out by the Information Bureau of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam in Paris. Their address is: 39 Avenue Georges Mandel, Paris 16.
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