CIVILIAN INTRUSION INTO THE INCIDENT AREA FROM APRIL 1975 TO JUNE 2003
In May 1984 the Australian government mission reported as follows. "The area adjacent to the incident site in question has been extensively resettled since 1982 with people from the north of Vietnam and from elsewhere in Qung Nai Province. North of Suoi Sap and from approximately two hundred metres west of the Song Rai, an area approximately two kilometres by one and one-half kilometers has been cleared and cultivated.
When questioned, people living in the area who had been involved in its cultivation and clearing stated they had no knowledge of a gravesite or of human remains having been found in the area. As Australian Army reports of the search conducted immediately after the incident reported the presence of bomb craters in the area, the local inhabitants were questioned as to the whereabouts of these. Only one remained in the vicinity but was still approximately twenty feet across by ten feet deep and with two to three feet of water in the bottom. Many more craters were said to be to the north of the site."
Anecdotal evidence has it that the area where FISHER fell is now used for growing vegetables. Up to date information, preferably photographs, is required.
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25 April 2003.