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THE BDM CORPORATION
Program Title- Agglomeration Camps
I Objectives:
* Increased national security
* Regroupment of pro-communist or VC families into special zones
where they could be watched by government authorities
P * Development of agglomeration centers for protectic _f loyal,
patriotic and reliable families who were seen as potential iargets
for VC terrorism.
Timeframe: May-July 1959
Initiators,: P'resident Diem and Counselor Nhu
S~Results:
Rs t Peasants were forced to leave their traditiopal homesteads -
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their reaction was one of unanimous protest
* It was difficult to distinguish between genuine Viet Minh or VC
families and nationalist families
a Program was suspended after two minths of operation
Remarks:
* The GVN was unable to provide adc uate security to the people, to ,
satisfactorily the rationale for such camps, or to dedicate
sufficient attertion to the economic and social implications
of the resettlements.,
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Figure 5-4,. Agglomeration or Resettlement Camps
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