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1955, R. W. Sorensen, Hansard, Fifth Series, Volume 542, Session 1955-56, 21 June, 1955, p. 1207, Other developments are taking place in Malaya. Naturally, villagisation is at first often resisted by those who are compelled to live in the new villages; nobody likes being torn up by the roots.
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In late 1984, the Ethiopian government began a program of villagization which was intended to regroup the scattered homesteads, small hamlets and traditional villages of the entire countryside into a completely new pattern of grid-plan villages, laid out in accordance with central directives.
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2012, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir, New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2015, Chapter 13, p. 36, Villagization, the innocuous name the colonial state gave to the forced internal displacement, was sprung on the Kenyan people in 1955, […] but living within the walls of the school, I had not heard about the agents of the state bulldozing people’s homes or torching them when the owners refused to participate in the demolition.
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