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BAJARAKA, 1958
Four peoples in one acronym: BAhnar, JArai, RAde, KAho. A movement that asked for our country with letters and demonstrations, whose leaders were arrested for it and held for five years, and whose survivors came out of prison in 1964 to found something that carried weapons.
The first outsiders: Cham, Annam and the missions
Four arrivals over a thousand years, each of which moved the Dega further from the sea, and a fifth — the missions — which moved nobody but changed everything by writing us down. This is the sequence as our records hold it, with the dates the outside chronicles give.
February 2001: the highlands stand up
In February 2001 several thousand Dega walked out of their villages into the provincial capitals of the Central Highlands. They asked for three things: their ancestral land, the freedom to worship, and a homeland. It was the largest open protest by an indigenous people in Vietnam since 1975, and it was answered with thousands of troops, twelve-y...
The Kon Tum mission, 1851
On 1 January 1851 a French priest reached a Bahnar village called Kon Phar, having walked in from the coast. The mission that followed produced the first written form of any of our languages, the first dictionary, the first school, and the first outside description of who lived in the highlands and where. It is the beginning of the written recor...
The prisoner records: what they are and how to search them
337 Dega recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, across five provinces, with arrests running from 2001 to 2006. This page explains what the records are, where they came from, what the gaps mean, and how to search them for somebody — including the spellings you have to try.
Prisoners of conscience: Kontum
11 Dega from Kontum province recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people. The arrests recorded here run from 2004–2005. This is a record, not an argument — every line is a person somebody is waiting for.
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