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The slave raids
At Stung Treng in the last century of the trade a person from our highlands sold for three or four bars of silver. The Lao word for us, Kha, means servant or slave. The Frenchman who wrote both of those things down in 1898 added a third sentence about us that we reproduce here because of what it shows about the men who came to abolish the traffi...
The elephants of Bản Đôn
For more than a century the village of Ban Don, on the Srepok west of Buon Ma Thuot, was known across mainland Southeast Asia for one thing: the men there caught wild elephants and tamed them. The hunters were Mnong, Lao, Jarai and Rhade, and the most famous of them was given a title by the King of Siam. The hunting ended in the 1990s. In 1980 D...
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