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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 in 1965, eight points in 1967, a political party and a flag in 1968.
Dak Son, December 5, 1967
Shortly before midnight on December 5, 1967, some six hundred Viet Cong soldiers carrying flamethrowers came into the Montagnard settlement of Dak Son in Phuoc Long province. By morning more than 250 people were dead, most of them burned in their houses or suffocated in the shelters they had dug to protect their children. TIME magazine called it...
Moved by force: hamlets, camps and relocation, 1957–1972
During the American war more of our people were moved than were killed, and more than two hundred thousand were killed. Villages were emptied into land development centers, strategic hamlets, refugee camps and resettlement sites, sometimes to protect them and sometimes to clear the land for someone else. By the end of the war, according to Geral...
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