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BAJARAKA, 1958
Four peoples in one acronym: BAhnar, JArai, RAde, KAho. A movement that asked for our country with letters and demonstrations, whose leaders were arrested for it and held for five years, and whose survivors came out of prison in 1964 to found something that carried weapons.
Names and words
Reading about the Dega means reading four vocabularies at once — ours, the French, the Americans' and the Vietnamese state's — and they do not agree. This is what the words mean here.
Y Bhăm Êñuôl
A Rhade schoolteacher who led both of our movements, spent five years in the prisons of the government he was petitioning, put our own name for ourselves before an international conference, was held under house arrest by his own allies for six years, and was killed with his family by the Khmer Rouge in April 1975 — a fortnight before the war he...
Paul Nưr and Nay Luett: the ministry years
Two men who tried the other route. Both were BAJARAKA founders, both went to prison for it under Diem, and both then took office inside the government that had jailed them — one as a province administrator, one as a minister of state. Both died in the prisons of the government that came next.
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