No enemy tricks will stop the people!

It is encouraging to read the letter written by Patriot on the situation in Sarawak. The following extract is from Hsinhua News (March 19, 1974).

The Malaysian authorities have "staged in Sarawak on March 4, a farce of inducement to surrender", says the "Voice of the Malayan Revolution" in a recent commentary entitled "Sugar-coated Poison".

The commentary says that the Malaysian authorities made use of, and deliberately played up, the surrender of a few renegades who had speculated in joining the revolution and usurped the leadership of the North Kalimantan People's Armed Forces, in an attempt to shake the fighting will of the revolutionary fighters and people of North Kalimantan and put down the revolutionary armed struggle of the North Kalimantan people.

The North Kalimantan revolutionary organisation was seriously sabotaged as a result of shameless betrayal by the traitors and the Malaysian authorities' intrigues and manoeuvres. "But, a bad thing can be turned into a good thing, provided that the North Kalimantan revolutionary fighters and people sum up experience, draw lessons from it and persist in revolutionary armed struggle," the commentary points out.

"Genuine revolution or revolutionary wars are always arduous and complicated things. The great leader Lenin had said," there has never been, nor can there every be, a revolution that was guaranteed against a long and arduous struggle, and perhaps filled with the most desperate sacrifices". It is hardly avoidable that frustration in one way or another may take place in the course of revolutionary war. Frustration serves as a severe test for the revolutionary ranks, before which all opportunists and cowards show their true colours but real revolutionaries are tempered and come out stronger than before," the commentary notes.

It concludes: countries want independence, nations want liberation and the people want revolution — this is an irresistible trend of history. No tricks played by the enemy can prevent the torrent of the revolution of the North Kalimantan people from surging forward.