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Viewing articles tagged 'gaps'
Viewing articles tagged 'gaps'
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Dega women, and a record written about men
Among the Rhade and the Jarai, land, livestock and the heirloom jars pass through women. Yet almost every source this library is built from is about men — because soldiers, prisoners and petitioners are who got written down. This page sets out what we can establish, and is explicit about the shape of what is missing.
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...
What we do not know
Every page in this library carries its sources and says where it is thin. This page collects those admissions in one place: the figures we cannot confirm, the periods we have almost nothing on, the documents we have never seen, and the questions we would most like answered. It is a list of what is missing, kept deliberately, because a record tha...
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