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Y Bham Enuol: the early years and BAJARAKA
He was born in 1913 in the village beside the mission at Ban Me Thuot, went through three schools the French and the missionaries had built, and became an agricultural official in the provinces he would later petition about. In 1958 he put his name to letters asking President Diem, three foreign embassies and the United Nations to look at what w...
Y Bham Enuol
A Rhade official from Buon Ale-A who led both of our movements, spent more than five years in the prisons of the government he was petitioning, put our own name for ourselves into the official record, was held under guard by his own allies for the last six years of his life, and walked out of the French Embassy in Phnom Penh on April 20, 1975, i...
Sabatier, the oath of 1926 and the Rhade law code
On New Year’s Day 1926 the French résident of Darlac stood in front of the assembled chiefs at Buon Ma Thuot and told them, among other things, that the peoples around us who had let strangers into their country had lost their law and were themselves lost. Ten times he told them to touch the bracelet. Six months later he was quietly relieved of...
Roads, taxes and forced labor, 1899–1945
In 1899 the tribute our villages had paid every three years in wax, horn and ivory was abolished and replaced by a tax in cash, on people who did not use cash. Three years later came the days: ten a year of unpaid work on the roads, rising to fifteen, and eight to ten more spent walking to the worksite and back. A man who could not find the mone...
The Rhade (Êđê)
The Rhade are the people of the Darlac plateau, the red basalt shelf around Buon Ma Thuot where the Krong Ana, the female river, joins the Krong No, the male river, and becomes the Srepok. They speak a Chamic language, cousin to Cham and more distantly to Malay. They count descent through women: a house belongs to its women, land belongs to a wo...
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