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FULRO, 1964–1992
On 20 September 1964 five armed camps in Darlac rose at once, and a movement was announced: the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races. It lasted twenty-eight years and three weeks, longer than the war that produced it, and ended in October 1992 when its last fighters walked out of the Cambodian forest and handed their rifles to Unit...
The Cambodian camps, 2001–2005
Between 2001 and 2005 the nearest country stopped being a refuge and became a holding area. Thousands crossed into Cambodia after the February 2001 crackdown; UNHCR opened sites in the border provinces; the sites were closed, protection officers were confined to Phnom Penh, and people were sent back. This is how that happened, in order.
Asylum today: Cambodia, Thailand, and the reach of the state
The Dega who leave the highlands are no longer safe once they are out of them. On 28 November 2025 Thailand handed a UNHCR-recognised refugee back to Vietnam, to serve ten years imposed at a trial he was not present at. That single act describes the present situation better than any summary could.
The dams: Yali Falls and the rivers
The Se San and the Srepok run west out of the highlands into the Mekong. From 1993 they were dammed. At Yali Falls alone, 6,782 people were moved — three in five of them indigenous — into houses of thirty-nine square metres with no kitchen and no latrine, onto land that was promised and never arrived. Downstream, in Cambodia, people drowned in r...
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