According to government reports, “safe and protected” living sites awaited the dislocated masses. Government financial assistance would help with the resettlement process, as would medical services, schools, water supplies, electrification, and cultivatable plots for villagers’ crops. In reality, the sites welcoming the internally displaced hordes were inhospitable when not uninhabitable. They included “sandy wasteland[s],” intermittent swamp areas, muddy areas with little to no drainage, and vast tracts piled with lode tin tailings.[120]
