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...BANMETHUOT, Vietnam (DNSI) - The forcible relocation of more than 45,000 Montagnards in the Central Highlands to large concentration centers is continuing as planned, despite sharp differences of opinion among the United States civil operations personnel in Vietnam...
...Buon Drai Si, near Route 14 north of Banmethuot, 3,200 Montagnards relocated in May 1970 were promised by the District Chief that they would be able to farm all the land west of the Ea De River. But Vietnamese immediately began farming the land. At Buon Nie Ea Sah, where 2800 people were relocated in December 1969 and January 1970, farmers from the nearby Vietnamese village of Halan have continued to push west of the relocation sites to occupy the land promised to the Montagnards...
Others have lost hope of being able to support themselves as farmers and have sought employment on French-owned tea plantations near Banmethuot, Both U. S. and Montagnard observers think it is only a matter of time before the Montagnards clustered near Route 14 begin to work for the Vietnamese farmers in Halan and further south. Already, Montagnards from Buon Ale A and B near Banmethuot are picked up by truck every morning to work for Vietnamese farmers in the area...
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...
LESTER L. TAGGS Banmethuot, Viet...