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(TS//SI) The effect of these policies on the
mountain people of the Tay Nguyen was predictable,
and the area became a center of resistance
to DiemJ
(V) Mont'lgrlCltd tribesmen
Vietnamese culture on these groups. Saigonappointed
officials reflected the typical air of
superiority towards the Montagnard, referring to
them as "savages." Few Montagnard were
allowed to attend schools; where there were
schools available to them, courses were taught
solely in Vietnamese.
(D) In 1957, Saigon further alienated the
Montagnard by relocating 210,000 ethnic
Vietnamese from the coastal areas into fortified
villages on traditionally tribal lands. In 1959,
Diem authorized the transfer of the Montagnard
into similar towns often consolidating a number
of different tribes into single camps, a practice
that could only lead to further strife.
(D) The peasants were another group victimized
by a lack of land reform. For example, by
196050 percent of cultivated land in the Mekong
Delta was 0\\