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BAJARAKA, 1958
Four peoples in one acronym: BAhnar, JArai, RAde, KAho. A movement that asked for our country with letters and demonstrations, whose leaders were arrested for it and held for five years, and whose survivors came out of prison in 1964 to found something that carried weapons.
Y Bham Enuol: the prison years, 1958 to 1964
He was arrested in the autumn of 1958 for writing letters, and was not finally free until February 1964. The sources disagree about the sentence, the places and even the number of years — four, five, six or seven, depending on who is counting. What they agree on is that the government of the Republic of Vietnam held the man who had asked it for...
Four highland towns
The four towns of the highlands that the world knows — Buôn Ma Thuột, Pleiku, Kon Tum and Đà Lạt — all carry highland names, and all grew up on highland land as posts of someone else’s government. This page gives each one’s name, its origin, and the few dates that matter.
Tet 1968 in the highlands
In the early hours of January 30, 1968, the Tet Offensive reached the highland towns of Ban Me Thuot, Kontum and Pleiku; Dalat was attacked on February 1. For a week or more the fighting was in the streets. The towns were our market towns and provincial capitals, and the villages around them carried the war before, during and after.
The Koho, Maa, Churu and Raglai
The southern end of the highlands, from the Lang Biang plateau around Đà Lạt down toward the coast, is the country of four peoples: the Koho and the Maa, who speak Mon-Khmer languages, and the Churu and Raglai, who speak Chamic languages and have the closest ties of any highlanders to the old kingdom of Champa. This page brings them together unt...
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