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The American years, 1961–1975
It began in one Rhade village six kilometers from Buon Ma Thuot, in October 1961, with an American volunteer who spoke our language, a Special Forces medic, and three weeks of argument with the elders. Within a year two hundred villages were armed. Within two years Saigon had taken the guns back from men who had been told they could keep them. O...
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...
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