Article about Communists and Montagnard tribes

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Article about Communists and Montagnard tribes
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Original title: "focus", Keever's title: "Mountain Tribes Harassed by Communists." Article about North Vietnamese policy toward Montagnard tribesmen, including their drive to recruit Montagnard men as porters near the Cambodian border. Written for the Christian Science Monitor
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SAIGON, MAY 25-The Comments Communists are continuing their
policy of using military attacks, executions and abductions to drive
primitive Montagnard refugees from their resettlement cents in
centers near district towns back into the jungled hills,
can be used as Communist supply porters. In some cases,
the Communists
have loaded the primitive mountain tribesmen on trucks and ve driven th
them away towards Cambodia. This Communist policy gained world-wide
attention late last year with the destruction of Dak Son near nor tirwor
northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border. The policy has cob
continued without the glare of publicity since then. Ingun
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Long provinco,
In early May, Viet Cong entered the village of Bu Jiai in Phuoc
burned all the 70 homes-the ashes smouldered for ten days,
eyi eyewitnessers said and then they forced 239 Montagnards--some of
Camboid Cambodian origin-onto a dozen trucks and drove off towards the
Cambodian bordor. An unknown number who ru refused the truck 6 ride wore
executed on the spot.
On May 22, two local Viet Cong companies-C-103 and K16/03 repeat
Ky K16/03-atte attacked
the refugee village of Phuoc Ninh, burnod
52 of the 100 homes of the 1701 1700 inhaft inhabitants and destroyed all the
The village was saved when a company of the 33rd
food in the village.
Vietnamese Ranger battalion rushed into the vill flaming area and drove out the
Communists. Part of the Ranger success was credited to their unit sha
having just been issued M-16 rifles--and the surprised the Communists with the
increased volumne of firepower. Casualties wore light on all sides. Three
Viet Cong dead were left behind, but many blood trails load into the jungle.
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(Hanka I'll filo a two-part series early monday morning on
the cabinet reshufrl reshuffle. Tin No sharp ronotion is expocy
expected from the Vietnamese military, so I plan to leave Monday aftor
noon for Danang, at least th staying there through the week.
for your cable earlier this wook.
I'll
Thanks
arrange my vacation after my
return from Denang, but I will try to arrange it with John
Ilughes schedule. I've also been taking one-day trips outside of Saigon
and will hope to got some feature-typo mailers off to you. Also, would
you want a two-part zeepager series profiling Long And province. I've
been down there once and have just hand an excellent comprehensive p
briefing on thoir pilot pacification program?
Many thanks Nik hooler
photos.
Regards Bev).
mond routor
Date
1968, May 25
Subject
Montagnards (Vietnamese people); Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Vietnam (Republic); Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Logistics; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Refugees
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6353
Container
B10, F34
Format
dispatches
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English