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Kin across the border: Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri
The border between Vietnam and Cambodia runs through the middle of our country. On the other side of it, in the Cambodian provinces of Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri, live Jarai, Bunong (Mnong) and other highland peoples who are our kin by language, by marriage and by history. It is where FULRO’s last fighters came out in 1992, where our refugees ran...
The slave raids
From at least the eighteenth century until the French arrived, the highlands were a hunting ground for people. Highlanders were seized in raids, carried down to the markets of the Mekong and sold in Cambodia, Siam, Laos and the Vietnamese south. The trade shaped where villages stood and how they were built, it gave the lowland peoples their word...
The smaller peoples of the highlands
Beyond the large peoples — Rhade, Jarai, Bahnar, Sedang, Mnong, Koho — the highlands are home to many smaller peoples, some of only a few tens of thousands, whose names rarely appear in the record. This page gathers what the sources say about ten of them, so that each at least has a place in our library.
Lower Sesan 2: the dam downstream
The Sesan and the Srepok carry water from our highlands into Cambodia, where the same peoples live on both banks. In 2017 the gates closed on Lower Sesan 2, a dam just below the rivers’ meeting in Stung Treng. It flooded some 30,000 hectares and displaced nearly 5,000 people, mostly Indigenous peoples and other ethnic minorities — among them Bun...
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