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The Rhade (Êđê)
The Rhade are the people of the Darlac plateau, the country around Buôn Ma Thuột. They speak a Chamic language, related to Cham and more distantly to Malay; they trace descent through women; and they gave the Dega movement many of its leaders, from Y Bham Enuol onward. This is one of a series of pages on the peoples of the highlands.
Customary law and the village court
Before any state reached the highlands, our villages had law: rules on land, marriage, debt and injury, judged by the headman and elders and enforced by fines paid in buffaloes, jars and gongs. The French wrote some of it down and built courts on it; the Saigon government set out to replace it and then, after the 1964 revolt and the highland lea...
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