Migration
Defector recaptured, 1962
Stars and Stripes
May 20, 2021
Al Chang ©Stars and StripesSouth Vietnam, September, 1962: A former assistant chief of a Vietnamese Montagnard tribe who defected to the communists and was recaptured stands in his prison hole at the Montagnard strike force command post at Buon Enao, in South Vietnam's highlands. Villagers wanted to execute the prisoner, but U.S. advisers intervened to question him.