Strategic Hamlet programme, 1962

• what did it aim to do?

  introduced in march, aimed to create stockades that house S.Viet rural peasants (reaction to Vietnam)

  • isolate people from Vietcong (NLF members, communists)
• what happened in Sept 62?

  regime claimed 4million people in strategic hamlets. by end of 62, over 3,00 hamlets.
• was the programme a success or failure?

  failure, often led to improved recruitment of peasants into Vietcong. compelled peasants to erect fences