As one peasant woman said: I was very poor in my village. but I did not mind that. I wanted to stay. First. the planes passed over our fields. My husband didnt know what to do. He stood up. They killed him. I wish I had stayed and been killed. too. She and 6.000 other natives of those four villages so close to Saigon were evacuated by the American forces. Those who survived are now in refugee camps operated not by South Vietnamese armed forces or South Vietnamese officials. but by Americans. One of the four villages. Ben Suc. was typical of the others.