--- title: 56 New Life Hamlets Being Built in Darlac url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/56-new-life-hamlets-darlac-1966/ description: A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1249) reports that between 2 and 22 June 1966 Darlac province opened 22 of 56 planned new-life hamlets. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. 56 New Life Hamlets Being Built in Darlac [![56 New Life Hamlets Being Built in Darlac, 1966 US poster: A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1249) reports that between 2](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/56-new-life-hamlets-darlac-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/56-new-life-hamlets-darlac-1966.jpg) # 56 New Life Hamlets Being Built in Darlac A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1249) reports that between 2 and 22 June 1966 Darlac province opened 22 of 56 planned new-life hamlets, housing 22,777 Kinh and highland people, each with defences against Communist sabotage. Photographs show hamlet residents digging trenches, barbed-wire fencing, a Chieu Hoi information official addressing a crowd and the province chief among villagers. Figures, defences and named officials are given together under a closing slogan, 'Cooperation and construction bring progress', with no mention of how residents came to live there. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 56 ẤP TÂN SINH ĐANG ĐƯỢC XÂY DỰNG TẠI DARLAC [Rhade text, not transcribed] Từ 2-6-1966 đến 22-6-1966 tỉnh Darlac đã lần lượt khánh-thành 22 Ấp Tân Sinh trong số 56 Ấp được dự trù xây dựng. Hiện có 22,777 đồng bào Kinh Thượng đang sinh sống an-lãnh trong các Ấp Tân Sinh đã hoàn thành. Số Ấp chưa khánh thành cũng sẽ được hoàn tất trong kỳ đệ nhị lục cá nguyệt 1966. Mỗi Ấp được khánh thành đều hội đủ các điều kiện cần thiết về phòng thủ an ninh chống Cộng-Sản phá-hoại các trụ sở và phòng ốc cần thiết như trụ sở Ấp, trường học, phòng thông tin, trạm cứu thương v.v.. [Rhade text, not transcribed] Đoàn Cán Bộ Thông Tin Chiêu Hồi đang giúp nhân dân Ấp Buôn Kô-Siêr đào giao thông hào. [Rhade text, not transcribed] Lập hàng rào dây kẽm gai quanh Ấp để ngăn ngừa Việt-Cộng đột nhập phá hoại. [Rhade text, not transcribed] [sign in photograph:] ĐOÀN ... / CHI ĐOÀN PHỤ NỮ Ông Trưởng Ty Thông Tin Chiêu-Hồi Darlac kiêm Trưởng Đoàn Xây Dựng Ấp Tân Sinh Buôn Kô-Siêr, do Ty Thông Tin Chiêu Hồi phụ trách đang đọc diễn văn chào mừng quan khách và tường thuật tiến trình xây-dựng Ấp. [Rhade text, not transcribed] Nhân dịp khánh thành Ấp Tân Sinh Kô-Siêr, ông Tỉnh Trưởng đã tiếp xúc thân mật với đồng bào Ấp để tìm hiểu và giải đáp nguyện vọng của họ. [Rhade text, not transcribed] Nhiều chương trình lớn lao khác như cải tiến nông nghiệp, mở mang đường sá vân vân cũng đang được chính quyền tỉnh Darlac xúc tiến mạnh mẽ để lần lượt tạo dựng cho nhân dân một đời sống no ấm, thịnh vượng và tiến bộ. [Rhade text, not transcribed] HỢP-TÁC VÀ XÂY DỰNG ĐEM LẠI TIẾN BỘ [Rhade text, not transcribed] SP-1249 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` 56 NEW-LIFE HAMLETS ARE BEING BUILT IN DARLAC [Rhade text, not transcribed] From 2-6-1966 to 22-6-1966 Darlac province successively inaugurated 22 New-Life Hamlets out of the 56 hamlets planned for construction. There are now 22,777 Kinh and Thuong [highland] compatriots living in peace in the completed New-Life Hamlets. The hamlets not yet inaugurated will also be completed in the second half of 1966. Each hamlet inaugurated has all the necessary conditions for security defence against Communist sabotage, and necessary buildings such as the hamlet office, school, information room, first-aid station, etc. [Rhade text, not transcribed] The Chieu Hoi Information Cadre Team is helping the people of Buon Ko-Sier Hamlet dig communication trenches. [Rhade text, not transcribed] Setting up barbed-wire fences around the hamlet to prevent the Viet Cong from breaking in to sabotage. [Rhade text, not transcribed] [sign in photograph:] ... TEAM / WOMEN'S SUB-TEAM The Chief of the Darlac Chieu Hoi Information Office, who is also head of the Building Team for the Buon Ko-Sier New-Life Hamlet, run by the Chieu Hoi Information Office, delivering a speech welcoming guests and reporting on the progress of building the hamlet. [Rhade text, not transcribed] On the occasion of the inauguration of Ko-Sier New-Life Hamlet, the Province Chief had friendly contact with the people of the hamlet to learn and answer their wishes. [Rhade text, not transcribed] Many other great programmes such as agricultural improvement, road building and so on are also being vigorously pushed forward by the Darlac provincial government, to create step by step for the people a life that is well-fed, prosperous and progressive. [Rhade text, not transcribed] COOPERATION AND CONSTRUCTION BRING PROGRESS [Rhade text, not transcribed] SP-1249 ``` Rhade text is marked and not transcribed throughout; 'Thượng' is the period Vietnamese term for highland peoples, rendered literally. 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