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On January 7, 1979 a popular antiMaoist revolution overthrew the reactionary regime of the bloody Pol Potleng Sary clique. In a new and genuinely free Kampuchea, the people have become the masters of their country and their own lives.

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p Pravda, December 4, 1978

p The Vietnamese Information Agency (VIA) reports that, in one of the country’s liberated areas, Kampuchean patriots have held a congress attended by representatives of various sections of the population. The congress decided to set up a Kampuchea United Front for National Salvation. The governing body of the Front was elected—a Central Committee of fourteen persons and Heng Samrin named its chairman.

p According to the VIA, the congress unanimously approved a declaration on the goals and tasks of the Kampuchean revolution. It contains a call to the people to rally and rise in the struggle to overthrow the reactionary Pol Pot-Ieng Sary clique in the interests of creating a peaceful, independent, democratic, neutral and non-aligned Kampuchea, a Kampuchea building socialism.

p It was also decided to set up a Kampuchean Information Agency (SPK) and a Voice of Kampuchea radio station.

p The SPK has released its first information bulletin. The establishment of the Kampuchea United Front for National Salvation, it reads, accords with the aspirations of the Kampuchean people who are waging a resolute struggle against the present regime—the scion of foreign reactionary forces—and for the establishment of a popular democratic government.

The VIA reports that a meeting was held in one of Kampuchea’s liberated regions on the occasion of the formation of the Front. Its participants declared their full support for the 112 Central Committee of the Front and expressed their confidence that the struggle of the Kampuchean people under the leadership of the Front would culminate in outright victory.