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FULRO, 1964–1992
On the night of September 19, 1964, the strike forces of four American-trained camps in Darlac and Quang Duc rose against their Vietnamese officers and marched on Buon Ma Thuot, and a movement announced itself: the United Front for the Struggle of the Oppressed Races, FULRO. It was made by the men of BAJARAKA, released from Diem’s prisons seven...
What Y Bham Enuol actually asked for
Seventeen years of demands, as they were written down at the time. Read in order they show a case that never changed in substance and got smaller every year in what it asked for: a commission of inquiry in 1958, a country in 1964, a statute and a flag in 1965, eight points in 1967, a political party and a flag in 1968, and, from a house in Phnom...
The photographs of Y Bham Enuol
Seven pictures are gathered here, all of them from our own archive: the studio portrait, two portraits in uniform, the flag at Camp le Rolland, a photograph beside an aircraft, one of him armed in the field, and the family group. None of them has a photographer’s name attached, and only one has a date written on it. We say about each exactly wha...
Mike Force, SOG and the special operations war
From 1964 the Americans stopped asking our men to guard their own villages and started asking them to go wherever the war was worst. They went: in the Mobile Strike Forces, the Mike Forces, that were flown in to camps under siege, and in the reconnaissance teams and raiding companies of MACV-SOG that crossed into Laos and Cambodia. The Americans...
Highland refugees of the war years
In the autumn of 1970 a South Vietnamese corps commander ordered the province chiefs of the highlands to empty every one of our hamlets that had been graded C or D. Families were given a few hours’ notice, in the harvest season, and told to leave the gongs and the jars behind. At Plei De Groi, 2,500 people were moved in; by the following October...
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