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Pushed off, 1954–57
In 1953 there were about six thousand Vietnamese in our highlands outside Da Lat. By the end of 1956 more than 140,000 Vietnamese refugees from the north had been settled on our land. By 1963 Vietnamese were more than 40 percent of the people of the seven highland provinces. This is how it was done: the French left, the Republic of Vietnam aboli...
Highlanders on the other side
Not all of our people fought beside the Americans. Some went with the Viet Minh against the French, took the boat north in 1954, and came back down the trail as cadres of the National Liberation Front. A Rhade leader of BAJARAKA became a vice-president of the Front. Across the border, a Jarai boy from Ratanakiri became Pol Pot’s bodyguard, while...
The first war in the highlands, 1946–1954
Between 1946 and 1954 France and the Viet Minh fought over our country, and both made our people the same offer: a country of our own, in return for soldiers. France gave the offer a name, a flag and two ordinances, and raised thirteen battalions of our men. The Viet Minh raised units of their own among us and promised autonomy. Our men fought o...
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