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The prisoner records: what they are and how to search them
Our records hold 337 Dega by name, men and one woman imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people in five provinces, arrested between 2001 and 2006. This page explains what the records are, where they came from, what they show, how they compare with the lists kept by others, what the gaps mean, and how to search them for somebody, incl...
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...
The Stieng (Xtiêng)
The Stieng live at the southwestern edge of the highlands, where the plateau falls toward the plains north of Saigon: in what was Phuoc Long and Binh Long, then Song Be, then Binh Phuoc, and across the border in Kratie and Mondulkiri. They were the first of our peoples a European lived among and wrote about, in 1859, and among the last the Frenc...
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