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A map of the highlands
Our country is the high plateau between the Annamite mountains and the Mekong, in what Vietnam now calls the Central Highlands and across the borders in Cambodia and Laos. This page gives the map, and then the country behind it: the mountains and the red basalt plateaus, the rivers that run east to the sea and west to the Mekong, the rains, wher...
Easter Week 2004
On the Saturday and Sunday of Easter 2004, people came out of their villages in thirty-nine communes across seventeen districts of Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Dak Nong. They came on farm tractors with trailers behind them, packed with food for five days, because they meant to stay. They were asking for four things: their land, the right to worship, the...
The prisoner records: what they are and how to search them
Our records hold 337 Dega by name, men and one woman imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people in five provinces, arrested between 2001 and 2006. This page explains what the records are, where they came from, what they show, how they compare with the lists kept by others, what the gaps mean, and how to search them for somebody, incl...
Bauxite: the plateau as a mine
Under the coffee is the ore. Most of Vietnam’s bauxite lies under the Central Highlands, in the red laterite of Dak Nong and Lam Dong. In 2007 the government planned twenty-five mines and seven alumina plants there. Two plants were built, at Tan Rai and Nhan Co, and in 2026 the state and its partners were planning to double them and to add more....
Prisoners of conscience: Dak Nong
Thirteen Dega from Dak Nong province, recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, arrested between 2004 and 2006. For two of them the record ends in “family believes murdered.” Dak Nong barely existed as a province during these years, and its short record has to be read together with the Dak Lak one it was carved...
The Mnong (Bunong)
The Mnong hold the southern half of the plateau — Dak Nong, the Lak basin below Buon Ma Thuot, and Mondulkiri across the Cambodian line, where they call themselves Bunong and are the largest of Cambodia’s recognized indigenous peoples. They are the people of N’Trang Lơng, who kept the French out of his country for twenty-three years; of the elep...
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