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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...
N’Trang Lơng and the Mnong resistance
For more than twenty years, from 1912 to 1935, the Mnong of the upper Chhlong river held the French out of their country. Their leader was N’Trang Lơng, a Mnong koragn — a man of knowledge and a mediator, not a hereditary chief. His people killed the explorer Henri Maître, destroyed French posts, stopped a colonial road, and governed themselves...
The Mnong (Bunong)
The Mnong live on both sides of the border: in Đắk Nông and southern Đắk Lắk in Vietnam, and in Mondulkiri in Cambodia, where they call themselves Bunong and are the largest of the province’s indigenous peoples. They are the people of Condominas’s We Have Eaten the Forest, of the elephant hunters of Bản Đôn, and of N’Trang Lơng’s resistance of m...
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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