HELPS PUBLICIZE TRIBUNAL
By Antonio Farien
London
; An exhibition of some 200 photographs, maps and Siagrans dealing with the war in Vietnam is being toured through England. -
Prepared by. the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, it portrays something of. the history and nature of the struggle instead of being a mere catalogue of horrors, as one might have imagined it would be. The result is an indictment of the U.S. role in Vietnam and a tribute to the National Liberation Front. At the annual trade union conference in Blackpool, where it was sponsored by twenty unions , it received a very good. response.
Geoff Coggan, who put the exhibition together, explained that its purpose is to help publicize the investigation projected by the International War Crimes Tribunal initiated by Bertrand Russell. Cards quoting the International War Crimes Statutes and Justice’ Jackson of the U.S. Supreme Court are posted throughout the exhibition. Before leaving; people are. asked to sign a book which says at the top:."We, the undersigned, support the call for an International War Crimes Tribunal. to examine charges of War Crimes against the United States of America.
The exhibition is made up of several sections, each dealing with a particular aspect of the war.
The first section deals with .the Geneva conference and how the U.S. became involved in Vietnam.
The next deals with the growth of the resistance of the Vietnamese people and shows some of their ingenious methods of: struggle against an overwhelmingly superior: technological power. -
The character of the national resistance is next displayed with photographs of student and Buddhist demonstrations, the execution of Nguyen Van Troi and self-_ immolation committed by Buddhist monks as a means of protest. ; :
The Effects of Napalm, Life in Liberated Areas, On the Battlefield and The Occupied City -- Saigén are the titles of the following sections. +
‘Probably the most ‘horrifying is the “next: section, The Arrogance of Power. Here the photographs display: NLF captives as wéll as women and children being. tortured -by Saigon and U.S. troops. The different methods of torture constitute an educational. . series. |
Towards a Third World War deals with. the escalation of the war. It shows. the . ruins of hospitals and a heehe in north Vietnam, the result of U. S. bombings.
Then comes a'‘séries showing the worldwide reaction in: the ‘form of. huge démonstrations that have’ taken place -in many different countries - against the Ue ‘S. and the war in Vietnan.
The closing section has no title: It merely starts with a:photograph of Johnson delivering a speech. ‘The caption quotes-him: "Unless the: United States has unchallengeable air powers we - shall be hostage: “to every yellow dwarf with - a Pocket knife. woos
Then come photographs of ‘the most ‘moving kind er child ‘pokiad parbea wire, a
women with her naked child, two refugee children and an old man blindfolded, bound and° iabelled, | Se BR a ee . Above this is the -inscription from the Statue of Liberty ‘in New. York harbor: ' "Give me your tired, your huddled ‘masses yeatning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send the homeless tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. " —
‘The - final: photogréph shows. ‘a’ ‘weeping Gr, ‘The - caption x reads: "An Auerican ne soldier in Vietnam’ has- cause to ‘despair. woe te e
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