Mao's "Three Rules and the Eight Remarks"
The Complete Treatise on Guerilla Warfare by Chairman Mao"Rules:
All actions are subject to command.
Do not steal from the people.
Be neither selfish nor unjust.
Remarks:
Replace the door when you leave the house.
Roll up the bedding on which you have slept.
Be courteous.
Be honest in your transactions.
Return what you borrow.
Replace what you break.
Do not bathe in the presence of women.
Do not without authority search those you arrest.
"Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together? It is only undisciplined troops who make the people their enemies and who, like the fish out of its native element cannot live. "
Note: This is the biggest difference between guerilla fighters of the past and the newer crop of Islamic fundamentalist fighters: the former considered non-combattants as one of the main sources of their power, and worked to ingratiate themselves into the fabric of the common man's daily lives. Al Quieda operatives consider all who are not "pure, or like us" as legimate targets. They routinely execute captives who have surrendered. Their stated goals are not compatible with international codes of human rights, but rather depend on ancient religious laws and practices that relegate vast segments of society to inferior social standing, while granting their followers favors and virtues completely at odds with socialist or democratic principles.
posted by Richard at
Monday, March 29, 2004
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