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How we died
Hundreds of thousands of our people were killed in wars fought across our land by armies that were not ours: at least one in five of us, by the only careful count. What has happened since those wars ended is harder to count, and it is the reason we use the word genocide. This page sets out the figures we have, where each comes from and what each...
The American years, 1961–1975
It began in one Rhade village six kilometers from Buon Ma Thuot, in October 1961, with an American volunteer who spoke our language, a Special Forces medic, and three weeks of argument with the elders. Within a year two hundred villages were armed. Within two years Saigon had taken the guns back from men who had been told they could keep them. O...
The battles fought on our land
Both armies agreed that whoever held the Central Highlands would decide the war, so the largest battles of the American war, and the offensives that ended it, were fought where our villages stood. The histories of those battles count sorties, tons of bombs and enemy dead to the last digit. They name the hills by their height and the villages by...
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