Vietnam War Dictionary

Agroville

Introduced by President Diem in 1959, the Agroville scheme was a forerunner of the Strategic Hamlet Program that forcibly relocated peasants into fortified villages ("agrovilles"). The program was suspended in August 1960 due to peasant hostility.

See Pacification

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