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Viewing articles tagged 'displacement'
Viewing articles tagged 'displacement'
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Moved by force: hamlets, camps and relocation, 1957–1972
During the American war more of our people were moved than were killed, and more than two hundred thousand were killed. Villages were emptied into land development centers, strategic hamlets, refugee camps and resettlement sites, sometimes to protect them and sometimes to clear the land for someone else. By the end of the war, according to Geral...
Highland refugees of the war years
Between the early 1960s and 1975 most of our people were driven from their villages at least once. The anthropologist Gerald Hickey estimated that at least 200,000 highlanders were killed in the war and that more than 85 percent were displaced as refugees. This page gathers what the record shows about how that happened, and what it leaves out.
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