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The camps, 1975–1990
This is the worst-documented period in our history, and this page exists to say so with as much precision as we can manage. Between 200,000 and 300,000 people from the former South Vietnam were sent to re-education camps after April 1975. We do not know how many of them were Dega, where they were held, or how many came back. What we do know is w...
Roads, taxes and forced labor, 1899–1945
French rule came to our villages as a tax to pay in cash and days of unpaid work on roads. The roads carried soldiers, officials and, later, the plantations onto our land. More than once, the work itself set off a revolt.
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