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The land, and what was planted on it
Vietnam went from a marginal coffee producer to the world's second largest in about fifteen years, on red basalt soil in the Central Highlands. The story of how that happened and the story of what happened to the Dega are the same story told from two ends. Forest cover in the highlands fell from 42.8 percent in 1990 to 19 percent in 2020.
Moved by force: hamlets, camps and relocation, 1957–1972
During the American war more of our people were moved than were killed, and more than two hundred thousand were killed. Villages were emptied into land development centers, strategic hamlets, refugee camps and resettlement sites, sometimes to protect them and sometimes to clear the land for someone else. By the end of the war, according to Geral...
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