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Easter Week 2004
On the Saturday and Sunday of Easter 2004, people came out of their villages in thirty-nine communes across seventeen districts of Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Dak Nong. They came on farm tractors with trailers behind them, packed with food for five days, because they meant to stay. They were asking for four things: their land, the right to worship, the...
The memorial register
This register names the Dega men and women whose deaths since 1975 at the hands of the police, soldiers or prison authorities of Vietnam have been published by an independent source. It is short, and that is the first thing to understand about it. The most-cited figure about our dead — at least twenty-five Montagnards dead in custody since 2001...
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...
Kok Ksor
A Jarai from Bon Broai who joined BAJARAKA at fourteen, went over the border at seventeen, came home from a war by way of a Khmer Republic training course in Virginia, and spent the second half of his life in a small city in South Carolina making our case in rooms where states have to listen. For thirty years Kok Ksor was the Dega most foreign g...
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