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The prisoner records: what they are and how to search them Our records hold 337 Dega by name, men and one woman imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people in five provinces, arrested between 2001 and 2006. This page explains what the records are, where they came from, what they show, how they compare with the lists kept by others, what the gaps mean, and how to search them for somebody, incl... Reference 142 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Gia Lai Two hundred and thirty-three Dega from Gia Lai province, recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, arrested between 2001 and 2006. This is the largest of our five province records, and the one with the most silence in it: for sixty-two of these people the record ends in “whereabouts unknown” or “family believes... Reference 80 views Read More The memorial register This register names the Dega men and women whose deaths since 1975 at the hands of the police, soldiers or prison authorities of Vietnam have been published by an independent source. It is short, and that is the first thing to understand about it. The most-cited figure about our dead — at least twenty-five Montagnards dead in custody since 2001... Reference 84 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Dak Lak Sixty-six Dega from Dak Lak province, recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, arrested between 2001 and 2004. Almost every one of them carries a sentence and a prison in the record, and almost every prison is the same one: Ha Nam, in the north. It is a record, not an argument. Every line is a person somebody i... Reference 72 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Dak Nong Thirteen Dega from Dak Nong province, recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, arrested between 2004 and 2006. For two of them the record ends in “family believes murdered.” Dak Nong barely existed as a province during these years, and its short record has to be read together with the Dak Lak one it was carved... Reference 62 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Binh Phuoc Fourteen Dega from Binh Phuoc province, recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, all from a single district, Bu Dang, and arrested in 2005. Binh Phuoc lies just outside the Central Highlands, and its presence in these records is a reminder that our people, and the arrests, did not stop at the provincial line. I... Reference 65 views Read More Prisoners of conscience: Kontum Eleven Dega from Kon Tum province, recorded by name as imprisoned for their faith, their land or their people, arrested in 2004 and 2005. Not one sentence is recorded against any of them. That blank column is itself the record’s clearest statement about how little news left this province. It is a record, not an argument. Every line is a person s... Reference 69 views Read More Growing up Dega: birth, naming and coming of age A Dega child was born beside the hearth in some of our peoples and in the forest in others, named by the ancestors, given a false name to hide it from the spirits, and raised with a freedom that outsiders remarked on in every village they visited but one. This page sets out what the older written sources record about growing up in the highlands,... Explainer 70 views Read More