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...rebuild the old French Route 9 as they went, and they stopped frequently to set up protective fire bases and send out patrols for as much as six miles to the north and south to guard their flanks. Their vital link to South Viet Nam's Quang Tri province-a force of some 600 U.S. helicopters-was repeatedly socked in by bad weather...
...food source. Most of the crop destruction has been in the Central Highlands, where the population is largely Montagnard tribesmen, an ethnic minority in Vietnam. The crop spraying has a catastrophic impact on the Montagnard people; the story that follows tells of the Song Re valley in Quang Nai province, a highland valley Meselson's group looked at closely...
...Green Beret field manual, Department of Defense publications on the Montagnards, and Saigon officials all told the HAC that the Montagnards of Quang Ngai have a long history of rice growing on terraced fields...
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...