Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Survey of the maps and photographs showed approximately 800 hectares of land were being used to grow crops. (A hectare is about two and a half acres.) With 900 family dwellings in the area, the average of one hectare per family is a minimal amount of crop land; enough for sustenance but certainly not surplus...
...Chemical Corps arguments for spraying were simply false. The chemical crop destruction in the Song Re valley destroyed food which would have fed the civilian Montagnard population, not VC/NVA soldiers. Was this particular mission a mistake? The HAC was told by the chemical staff officer that this crop destruction mission was particularly effective and well planned...
WHAT HAPPENED to the people who lived in the Song Re valley before the crop destruction? They are now living in government refugee camps, driven from their land and unable or unwilling to return...
...Montagnard religion prevents the people from returning to their land and trying to farm again-assuming the chemically treated ground will permit crop growth...
...EVIDENCE indicates that the crop destruction program is widespread, that cases like that of the Song Re valley are not exceptions, and that the Montagnard people are being systematically destroyed. In Quang Nai and Quang Tin provinces, the food scheduled for destruction in 1970-71 was estimated for the Commission at 14,575 metric tons. That is enough to sustain around 50-70,000 people for a year. The targeted areas of those two provinces are the upland regions where the Montagnards live. The total Montagnard population of those two provinces is just under...