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The church they closed
Most of us are Christians, and the state has decided that one form of our Christianity is not a religion at all but a political conspiracy in religious dress. That decision, written into a prime minister’s instruction in February 2005, is the legal hinge on which most of the last twenty-five years of persecution in the highlands turns. This page...
February 2001: the highlands stand up
On Friday, February 2, 2001, eight hundred people from four communes walked out of their villages at four in the morning and reached Pleiku at half past eight. By mid-morning there were thousands of them outside the provincial hall. The next day the same thing happened at Buon Ma Thuot, and over the following twelve days at Ea H’leo, at Ayun Pa,...
Kok Ksor
A Jarai from Bon Broai who joined BAJARAKA at fourteen, went over the border at seventeen, came home from a war by way of a Khmer Republic training course in Virginia, and spent the second half of his life in a small city in South Carolina making our case in rooms where states have to listen. For thirty years Kok Ksor was the Dega most foreign g...
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