Records and how to use us

Timeline: 875 to today The Dega story in one place, from the fall of Champa to the extradition of a refugee from Bangkok in November 2025. Where an article in this library covers an entry in more depth, it is linked. Changelog 11 views Read More Names and words Reading about the Dega means reading four vocabularies at once — ours, the French, the Americans' and the Vietnamese state's — and they do not agree. This is what the words mean here. Glossary 8 views Read More Frequently asked The questions we are actually asked — including the hostile ones, which we would rather answer than leave to be answered for us. FAQ 6 views Read More Reporting safely from inside the highlands Important Security 6 views Read More How to document an incident A report that a human rights body can act on looks different from a report that something terrible happened. This is what makes the difference, and why. Read Reporting safely first. Tutorial 6 views Read More Reporting an incident to DCHO How to bring something to us, what we do with it, and what we will and will not publish. If you are inside the Central Highlands, read Reporting safely before you do anything on this page. How-to 6 views Read More The prisoner records: what they are and how to search them 337 Dega recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, across five provinces, with arrests running from 2001 to 2006. This page explains what the records are, where they came from, what the gaps mean, and how to search them for somebody — including the spellings you have to try. Reference 7 views Read More If a family member is detained What to write down and what to try, in the first hours and the weeks after. We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice; it is what families who have been through it have told us mattered. Checklist 8 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Gia Lai 233 Dega from Gia Lai province recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people. The arrests recorded here run from 2001–2006. This is a record, not an argument — every line is a person somebody is waiting for. Reference 5 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Dak Lak 66 Dega from Dak Lak province recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people. The arrests recorded here run from 2001–2004. This is a record, not an argument — every line is a person somebody is waiting for. Reference 1 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Dak Nong 13 Dega from Dak Nong province recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people. The arrests recorded here run from 2004–2006. This is a record, not an argument — every line is a person somebody is waiting for. Reference 1 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Binh Phuoc 14 Dega from Binh Phuoc province recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people. The arrests recorded here run from 2005–2005. This is a record, not an argument — every line is a person somebody is waiting for. Reference 1 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Kontum 11 Dega from Kontum province recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people. The arrests recorded here run from 2004–2005. This is a record, not an argument — every line is a person somebody is waiting for. Reference 1 views Read More What we do not know Every page in this library carries its sources and says where it is thin. This page collects those admissions in one place: the figures we cannot confirm, the periods we have almost nothing on, the documents we have never seen, and the questions we would most like answered. It is a list of what is missing, kept deliberately, because a record tha... Reference 9 views Read More Sources and method How this library is built, what it is made of, what it does with its sources, and the rules it holds itself to. If you intend to use anything here in a submission, a filing or an article, this page tells you what you are relying on. Reference 7 views Read More