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BAJARAKA, 1958 BAJARAKA is four peoples in one word: BAhnar, JArai, RAde, KAho. It was the movement in which our educated men, most of them teachers, clerks, soldiers and policemen of the new Republic of Vietnam, asked for our country back with letters, a petition and a march. They wrote to President Diem, to the American, French and British ambassadors and to... Changelog 590 views Read More February 2001: the highlands stand up On Friday, February 2, 2001, eight hundred people from four communes walked out of their villages at four in the morning and reached Pleiku at half past eight. By mid-morning there were thousands of them outside the provincial hall. The next day the same thing happened at Buon Ma Thuot, and over the following twelve days at Ea H’leo, at Ayun Pa,... Explainer 145 views Read More Easter Week 2004 On the Saturday and Sunday of Easter 2004, people came out of their villages in thirty-nine communes across seventeen districts of Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Dak Nong. They came on farm tractors with trailers behind them, packed with food for five days, because they meant to stay. They were asking for four things: their land, the right to worship, the... Reference 126 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Gia Lai Two hundred and thirty-three Dega from Gia Lai province, recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, arrested between 2001 and 2006. This is the largest of our five province records, and the one with the most silence in it: for sixty-two of these people the record ends in “whereabouts unknown” or “family believes... Reference 80 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Dak Lak Sixty-six Dega from Dak Lak province, recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, arrested between 2001 and 2004. Almost every one of them carries a sentence and a prison in the record, and almost every prison is the same one: Ha Nam, in the north. It is a record, not an argument. Every line is a person somebody i... Reference 72 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Dak Nong Thirteen Dega from Dak Nong province, recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, arrested between 2004 and 2006. For two of them the record ends in “family believes murdered.” Dak Nong barely existed as a province during these years, and its short record has to be read together with the Dak Lak one it was carved... Reference 62 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Binh Phuoc Fourteen Dega from Binh Phuoc province, recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, all from a single district, Bu Dang, and arrested in 2005. Binh Phuoc lies just outside the Central Highlands, and its presence in these records is a reminder that our people, and the arrests, did not stop at the provincial line. I... Reference 65 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Kontum Eleven Dega from Kon Tum province, recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, arrested in 2004 and 2005. Not one sentence is recorded against any of them. That blank column is itself the record’s clearest statement about how little news left this province. It is a record, not an argument. Every line is a person s... Reference 69 views Read More