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The 2002 resettlement: from the Cambodian camps to North Carolina
In the summer of 2002 close to nine hundred Dega who had fled into Cambodia after the February 2001 protests were flown to North Carolina. It was the largest single movement of our people to the United States. It happened because a plan to send them back to Vietnam collapsed in the open, in front of UN staff, in a forest camp in Mondulkiri.
Thailand’s screening mechanism: what it offers a Dega refugee
Since September 2023 Thailand has had its own procedure for deciding who cannot be sent home, the National Screening Mechanism. On paper it is the first Thai status a refugee can hold. In practice a person must be arrested before applying, and in its first thirty months seven people received it. This page explains what the mechanism is and why a...
Our veterans in America
Thousands of our men fought alongside American Special Forces between 1961 and 1975. The United States brought some of them to North Carolina in 1986 and 1992 because of that service. It has never counted them as veterans. This page sets out what the record shows about the men, the Americans who stood by them, and the gap that remains.
Beyond North Carolina: Canada and other countries
Most Dega refugees who were resettled went to the United States, and most of those to North Carolina. A smaller number went to Canada, and a few passed through other countries on the way. The record of those who did not go to America is thin, and this page sets out what it contains.
Highland women in the war, 1954–1975
In the written record of the war, highland women appear mostly in the background: as the families in the camps, as the dead in the villages. When the record lets them come forward, they are nurses and midwives in training, and in one case a woman speaking for herself. This page gathers what we have found, and says plainly how much is missing.
Growing up Dega: birth, naming and coming of age
A Dega child was usually born beside the family hearth, named by the ancestors, given a false name to hide it from the spirits, and raised with a freedom that outsiders often remarked on. This page sets out what the older written sources record about growing up in the highlands, people by people, and what changed for the children who grew up in...
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