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...Darlac Province, the lack of planning resulted in heavy losses of livestock, rice, and other valuable possessions in the process of moving to the relocation sites, according to one official who has interviewed the relocated Montagnards. Only a fraction of the water buffalo, cattle and other animals could be brought with the people, because of the hurried moves by truck and U. S. Chinook helicopters. Virtually all the hardwood furniture found in Montagnard long-houses had to be left behind. Cattle and ceremonial gongs were stolen by ARVN troops and later sold in a nearby Vietnamese market town...
...most urgent problem of the Montagnards relocation centers in Darlac is the shortage of land. Montagnards find themselves competing with Vietnamese as well as with each other for the limited supply of accessible land. In several areas in the province recently relocated Montagnard hamlets have found that Vietnamese farmers have moved in to cultivate much of the nearby land...
...Buon Kli B, with nearly 7000 people - the largest resettlement site in Darlac Province - population pressure and advancing Vietnamese farmers leave the Montagnards with only a fraction of the land required to sustain themselves. Before the move, Vietnamese province officials planned to allot only two-tenths of a hectare to each family. But U. S. social welfare advisers estimate that a minimum of two hectares is needed to sustain a Montagnard family...
...educated Montagnard remarked bitterly that the relocation centers in Darlac surrounded by Vietnamese-occupied land "look like Indian reservations." He suspects that Vietnamese policy is aimed at making rural proletariat out of relocated Montagnards, noting that in Lam Dong Province as well, Vietnamese relocated Montagnards near a tea plantation. "They will have to sell their labor in order to survive," he said. "It will be a kind of slavery...
Deputy Senior Adviser Bartley says that relocated Montagnards in Darlac "are reacting to the move as though it is permanent. The longer they stay there the less they will want to go back to the old buons." But a Montagnard leader in Banmethuot vehemently disagrees. "All of them want to go back," he says. "There they had very good land. Here they can't do anything...