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North Carolina
The largest community of our people outside Vietnam is in North Carolina, in Greensboro, Charlotte, Raleigh and New Bern. It is there because the American soldiers we fought beside came home to Fort Bragg and would not let the subject drop, and because when the survivors of the resistance walked out of the forest in 1985 and 1992 those soldiers...
The men of FULRO
FULRO is usually told as the story of one man. It was never only his. This is a register of the others we can name — the Cham officer who invented the word for what we were supposed to be, the two men called Adrong whom the record keeps confusing, the interpreter who funded a liberation front out of an American payroll, the commander who walked...
The 2002 resettlement: from the Cambodian camps to North Carolina
In the summer of 2002 about nine hundred of our people were flown from a disused factory in Phnom Penh to airports in North Carolina, fifty at a time, three or four times a week, on ordinary commercial flights. Most had been in the forest or in a camp for a year. Three quarters of them were men, and most of those men had left a wife and children...
The bracelet
A ring of brass or copper on the wrist is one of the oldest bonds among our peoples. It settles an engagement and ends one; it pays the midwife and the broker; it is heated in coals and dropped into a jar of blood and rice beer so that men who should be enemies can drink and be bound. In 1964, on the morning of a mutiny, a Rhade shaman put three...
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