Word: quang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small, carpeted courtroom, his counsel, George Latimer, led him back and forth across the countryside of Quang Ngai province. With violent and painful detail, the young officer recapitulated the events of March...
...correspondents covering the war in Indochina have been so completely frustrated as the group of 50-odd camped at Quang Tri in northwestern South Viet Nam. They have been virtually stymied in their efforts to report major South Vietnamese operations in Laos. Officially, their only source of information is briefings by U.S. and South Vietnamese officers. U.S. helicopter pilots have been forbidden to carry correspondents into Laos. And when some American flyers leaked word to newsmen last week about an embattled South Vietnamese Ranger battalion, they were promptly prevented from having further conversations with correspondents. The pilots' operations center...
...Associated Press correspondent reported that almost 2000 more U. S. troops have moved into the northern-most Quang Tri area of South Vietnam to replace South Vietnamese forces recently shifted to Laos. The movement of U. S. forces has increased the number of Americans in that province to between...
That was before the spraying. The Montagnards in Quang Nai are members of the Hre tribe, and are animists, believing in the presence of spirits in nature. For the Hre, poisons are particularly powerful evil spirits, and treatment of the land with herbicides is a manifestation of an evil spirit. The land has fallen under a curse, and according to tradition will be abandoned. The homes, crops, and even lives of the Montagnards were destroyed by the Chemical Corps spraying operations, and their folk beliefs intensified the tragedy...
...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...