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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37, No. 6. April 10, 1974

Does SRC condone the Red peril?

Does SRC condone the Red peril?

Dear Sir,

I feel I must write and query the article in Salient (March 27 issue) about the SRC. Of the four students from Vic I asked nobody knew what the hell SRC stood for, so please excuse this apparent lack of 'home work' on my part.

Does SRC infact condone the spread of communism and the most horrible violence that Africa has seen since the Mau Mau?

It appears so in their 'first major project' which as the article states will be 'fund-raising for the Zimbabwe freedom-fighters'.

How much does this SRC actually know about the freedom-fighters, their aims and methods?

If their fund-raising goes ahead they will be contributing to the deaths and horrible injurys of innocent people, both black and white. Some of these people are totally apathetic as to the government or policies of their leaders, or should I say, to whoever may be in control of their area at the time.

As the 'Zimbabwe Freedom-Fighters' are communist backed, and provided for by the communist countries, it appears that either the SRC is pro-communist and condones the deaths and maiming of innocent people or are so bloody arrogant as to go into a situation and problem area, without doing their homework on the topic.

I do realise the fact, that the parties concerned in the conflict, are not 'innocent people'; but the African villagers and local white population mainly women and young children have little say in what happens, and, so are innocent to the whims of the Smith regime or the Zimbabwe freedom-fighters.

All I can say is that the SRC is moving into an area where they are out of their depth, to use light terms, and will, like small children who play with fire, get their fingers burnt.

All I ask is that they take a good bloody hard look at the whole situation in Rhodesia, on both sides of the conflict and then if they still feel that they are in the same league as the big boys, act accordingly.

With respect of your views,

Mike Wood

Wellington Polytechnic

P.S. Print whole script or nothing.

P.P.S. A friend just said "tell the SRC to look at the true facts, not propaganda, instead of jumping on the African bandwagon like every other stupid sheep in New Zealand.