ABSTRACT
Party cadres also encouraged protests against the renewal of conscription. Party cadres also directed their efforts at the sizeable Khmer Krom community in the Delta provinces. The Party's policy towards the landlords was conditioned in part on the basis of experience gained during the Resistance. The extent of the Party's influence on urban protests is difficult to measure, given its clandestine nature. Party-inspired accounts of workers' and students' struggles are self-serving and highly exaggerated. In 1955, when military forces loyal to Diem expelled the Binh Xuyen from Saigon, a group of Binh Xuyen men under the command of Vo Van Mon sought refuge in War Zone D and in the Plain of Reeds. A similar link-up between the Party and sect dissidents occurred in mid-1957 in Ca Mau province. The Party's attempts to win over various sect groups was a continuous affair. A major escalation in the scope of fighting occurred in 1958.
