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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...
Massacres of our people
This page is a register of the killings of our people that are documented: who was killed, where, when, by whom, and how we know. It names every kind of killer, because our people were killed by all of them — by the Viet Minh and the Viet Cong, by the North Vietnamese army, by the Khmer Rouge, by the governments of South Vietnam and Cambodia, by...
Highland women in the war, 1954–1975
In 1966 the United States Army published a handbook that told its own personnel, in one identical line repeated for nineteen of our peoples, to stay away from our women. The same book recorded that in Darlac six or seven of every ten of our babies died before their first birthday, and that Rhade law puts the land in the women’s keeping. A year l...
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