How we died
As residents of this once peaceful country, the Dega people were recruited and attacked by both sides of the Viet Minh and the French in the First Indochina War.
As residents of this once peaceful country, the Dega people were recruited and attacked by both sides of the Viet Minh and the French in the First Indochina War.
1876, The French begin exploring our homelands, beginning with the territory of the Sedang tribe in Kontum province in the north, the Rhade tribe in Daklak province in the west and south from Saigon to the Chrau tribal regions.
1946, French High Commissioner George D’Argenlieu signs the May 27 decree establishing the Federal Government for the Montagnard people in southern Indochina (see Appendix A, Federal Decree of May 27, 1946).
BAJARAKA is a combination of the key letters of Bahnar, Jarai, Rade and Kaho, the names of the four great tribes of the Dega peoples of the P.M.S.I. (Pay Montagnard du Sud Indochinois) the country of Montagnards in southern Indochina.