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The land, and what was planted on it
Vietnam went from a marginal coffee producer to the world's second largest in about fifteen years, on red basalt soil in the Central Highlands. The story of how that happened and the story of what happened to the Dega are the same story told from two ends. Forest cover in the highlands fell from 42.8 per cent in 1990 to 19 per cent in 2020.
The French arrive, 1876–1929
We let the French in. Most of our peoples welcomed them, believing they would help us recover the coast the Vietnamese had taken. What we got instead was a colonial administration, a plantation economy, the first Vietnamese settlers — and, entirely by accident, a single political identity that we have used ever since.
Cư Kuin, June 2023 — and the trial that followed
Before dawn on 11 June 2023, armed groups attacked two commune headquarters in Cư Kuin district, Dak Lak. Nine people were killed. Vietnam charged the attack as terrorism, tried a hundred people in a single sitting of a mobile court, and used the case to designate a peaceful Montagnard advocacy group as a terrorist organisation. Twelve United Na...
The prisoner records: what they are and how to search them
337 Dega recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, across five provinces, with arrests running from 2001 to 2006. This page explains what the records are, where they came from, what the gaps mean, and how to search them for somebody — including the spellings you have to try.
Prisoners of conscience: Dak Lak
66 Dega from Dak Lak province recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people. The arrests recorded here run from 2001–2004. This is a record, not an argument — every line is a person somebody is waiting for.
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