Land reform in South Vietnam
A land reform program called Land to the Tiller was implemented in South Vietnam on March 26 1970 by the president Nguyen Van Thieu, at the height of the Vietnam War. The reform intended to solve the problem of land tenancy by taking land from the landlords who are not laboring to the tenant farmers; the landlords are then compensated. Individual land holding was limited to 15 hectares. Legal title was extended to peasants in areas under control of the South Vietnamese government to whom land had previously been distributed by the Viet Cong.
The reform was highly advertised three months prior to its application and a holiday marked it (Farmer's Day).[1] The initiative was backed by the American government; Richard Nixon gave his support in June 1969 in the Midway communiqué, judging it favorable to the vietnamization of the conflict.[1] In total, the United States financed 339 millions US dollars of the total 441 millions the reform cost.[2]
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References
- ^ a b Prosterman, Roy L. (August 1970). "Land-to-the-Tiller in South Vietnam : The Tables Turn" (PDF). Asian Survey. 10 (8): 751. doi:10.1525/as.1970.10.8.01p0027v. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ^ Brocheux, Pierre (2000). Du conflit d'Indochine aux conflits indochinois. Bruxelles: Complexe. p. 89. ISBN 9782870278116.
- Mark Moyar, "Villager attitudes during the final decade of the Vietnam War". Presented at 1996 Vietnam Symposium "After the Cold War: Reassessing Vietnam", 18–20 April 1996.
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