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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,...
The Kings of Fire and Water
The legend said they lived alone in seven towers on seven mountains, moved from one to the next each year, never saw a human face, and reigned seven years. A French officer went to find out, and in February 1891 he found the Master of Fire lying on a bamboo couch smoking a long copper pipe, among people who paid him no great deference. He carrie...
The Jarai
The Jarai are the largest of our peoples and the largest Chamic-speaking people on the mainland — larger than the Rhade, and far larger than the Cham themselves. Their country is the Pleiku plateau and the valleys falling away from it into the Ayun and the Ba, and it does not stop at the border: a fifth of Ratanakiri province in Cambodia is Jara...
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