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Pushed off, 1954–57
In 1953 there were about six thousand Vietnamese in our highlands outside Da Lat. By the end of 1956 more than 140,000 Vietnamese refugees from the north had been settled on our land. By 1963 Vietnamese were more than 40 percent of the people of the seven highland provinces. This is how it was done: the French left, the Republic of Vietnam aboli...
How many Dega there are
There are more of us than there have ever been, and we have never been so small a part of our own country. The state’s own census counted about 768,000 people in the thirteen highland peoples in 1979 and about 2,125,000 in 2019 — almost a trebling in forty years. Over the same span the population of the four highland provinces went from 1.2 mill...
Moved by force: hamlets, camps and relocation, 1957–1972
For fifteen years, from 1957 into the 1970s, governments moved our villages. Saigon moved them to make room for Vietnamese settlers, then to empty the country the Viet Cong held. The American army lifted them out by helicopter so that it could fight where they had lived. A South Vietnamese general moved them again at harvest, on a few hours’ not...
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