War and resistance

Pushed off, 1954–57 In 1954 the French lost and left. In 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem merged our country into the Republic of Vietnam. From 1956 his land development centres moved Vietnamese settlers onto highland soil in numbers our records put at around 850,000. No government objected, and the word the policy used for itself was assimilation. Explainer 21 views Read More BAJARAKA, 1958 Four peoples in one acronym: BAhnar, JArai, RAde, KAho. A movement that asked for our country with letters and demonstrations, whose leaders were arrested for it and held for five years, and whose survivors came out of prison in 1964 to found something that carried weapons. Changelog 21 views Read More FULRO, 1964–1992 On 20 September 1964 five armed camps in Darlac rose at once, and a movement was announced: the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races. It lasted twenty-eight years and three weeks, longer than the war that produced it, and ended in October 1992 when its last fighters walked out of the Cambodian forest and handed their rifles to Unit... Explainer 6 views Read More Y Bhăm Êñuôl A Rhade schoolteacher who led both of our movements, spent five years in the prisons of the government he was petitioning, put our own name for ourselves before an international conference, was held under house arrest by his own allies for six years, and was killed with his family by the Khmer Rouge in April 1975 — a fortnight before the war he... Spotlight 7 views Read More The American years, 1961–1975 It began in one Rhade village in October 1961 with two Americans and no authority to speak of, and grew within a year into an armed network covering 200 villages and 60,000 people. Dega soldiers became among the most reliable troops in the highlands. By the end, over 200,000 of our people were dead and 85 per cent of our villages destroyed or ab... Reference 10 views Read More 1975, and what came after The Republic of Vietnam collapsed in our highlands first: Ban Me Thuot fell on 11 March 1975 and the retreat from the plateau turned into a rout that reached Saigon seven weeks later. What followed for the Dega was not peace. It was reprisal, and the reprisal has not clearly ended. Explainer 5 views Read More Paul Nưr and Nay Luett: the ministry years Two men who tried the other route. Both were BAJARAKA founders, both went to prison for it under Diem, and both then took office inside the government that had jailed them — one as a province administrator, one as a minister of state. Both died in the prisons of the government that came next. Spotlight 7 views Read More