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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...
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...
The great migration: New Economic Zones and settlers
In 1921 there were twenty Vietnamese living in Darlac. By 1997 there were a million and a half people in the province that replaced it, and we were one in five of them. No war, epidemic or famine did that. It was done by migration: first planned by the state, family by family into New Economic Zones, and then, when coffee made the highlands rich...
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