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Viewing articles tagged '1967'
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What Y Bham Enuol actually asked for
Seventeen years of demands, as they were written down at the time. Read in order they show a case that never changed in substance and got smaller every year in what it asked for: a commission of inquiry in 1958, a country in 1964, a statute and a flag in 1965, eight points in 1967, a political party and a flag in 1968, and, from a house in Phnom...
Dak Son, December 5, 1967
On the night of December 5, 1967, Viet Cong troops with flamethrowers burned a Stieng settlement called Dak Son in Phuoc Long province. That much is not in dispute and never has been. What is in dispute, though almost nobody says so, is the number: the 252 dead that everyone quotes was published by an American magazine four days after the CIA’s...
Moved by force: hamlets, camps and relocation, 1957–1972
For fifteen years, from 1957 into the 1970s, governments moved our villages. Saigon moved them to make room for Vietnamese settlers, then to empty the country the Viet Cong held. The American army lifted them out by helicopter so that it could fight where they had lived. A South Vietnamese general moved them again at harvest, on a few hours’ not...
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