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Books about the Dega A reading list for anyone who wants to understand the Dega properly, our own young people above all: the books and articles we trust, what each is good for, and where it can be read. Many are free online, and the older ones are in our own library. Reference 132 views Read More How we died Hundreds of thousands of our people were killed in wars fought across our land by armies that were not ours: at least one in five of us, by the only careful count. What has happened since those wars ended is harder to count, and it is the reason we use the word genocide. This page sets out the figures we have, where each comes from and what each... Reference 150 views Read More How many Dega there are There are more of us than there have ever been, and we have never been so small a part of our own country. The state’s own census counted about 768,000 people in the thirteen highland peoples in 1979 and about 2,125,000 in 2019 — almost a trebling in forty years. Over the same span the population of the four highland provinces went from 1.2 mill... Reference 194 views Read More 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... Reference 101 views Read More Theses and academic studies A guide to the doctoral and master’s theses and the academic studies written about our peoples and the highlands, in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and in the communities we built abroad. It is for students, researchers and anyone who wants to go deeper than this library can. Every item was checked against a thesis register, a library catalog, the p... Reference 128 views Read More Highlanders on the other side Not all of our people fought beside the Americans. Some went with the Viet Minh against the French, took the boat north in 1954, and came back down the trail as cadres of the National Liberation Front. A Rhade leader of BAJARAKA became a vice-president of the Front. Across the border, a Jarai boy from Ratanakiri became Pol Pot’s bodyguard, while... Explainer 86 views Read More Moved by force: hamlets, camps and relocation, 1957–1972 For fifteen years, from 1957 into the 1970s, governments moved our villages. Saigon moved them to make room for Vietnamese settlers, then to empty the country the Viet Cong held. The American army lifted them out by helicopter so that it could fight where they had lived. A South Vietnamese general moved them again at harvest, on a few hours’ not... Explainer 79 views Read More Yang: the spirits and the old religion Everything written down about the old religion of our country was written by somebody else. French missionaries, French administrators, an American army analyst working from their books, and lately a team of researchers who state in print that they are not indigenous. We have looked for one published account by a Dega person describing a yang, o... Explainer 83 views Read More