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Mondulkiri, 1992: the end of the armed struggle
In October 1992 a United Nations patrol in eastern Cambodia found several hundred armed men, with their wives and their children, still fighting a war that had ended seventeen years earlier. They had not been told their leader was dead. They gave up their weapons, asked for asylum, and the Dega armed struggle ended after twenty-eight years and t...
Names and words
Reading about the Dega means reading four vocabularies at once — ours, the French, the Americans' and the Vietnamese state's — and they do not agree. This is what the words mean here.
FULRO, 1964–1992
On 20 September 1964 five armed camps in Darlac rose at once, and a movement was announced: the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races. It lasted twenty-eight years and three weeks, longer than the war that produced it, and ended in October 1992 when its last fighters walked out of the Cambodian forest and handed their rifles to Unit...
Y Bhăm Êñuôl
A Rhade schoolteacher who led both of our movements, spent five years in the prisons of the government he was petitioning, put our own name for ourselves before an international conference, was held under house arrest by his own allies for six years, and was killed with his family by the Khmer Rouge in April 1975 — a fortnight before the war he...
1975, and what came after
The Republic of Vietnam collapsed in our highlands first: Ban Me Thuot fell on 11 March 1975 and the retreat from the plateau turned into a rout that reached Saigon seven weeks later. What followed for the Dega was not peace. It was reprisal, and the reprisal has not clearly ended.
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