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Pushed off, 1954–57
In 1954 the French lost and left. In 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem merged our country into the Republic of Vietnam. From 1956 his land development centres moved Vietnamese settlers onto highland soil in numbers our records put at around 850,000. No government objected, and the word the policy used for itself was assimilation.
North Carolina
The largest Dega community outside Vietnam is in North Carolina. It is there because the American soldiers we fought alongside came from there, and because when the survivors of the resistance walked out of the forest those soldiers remembered and campaigned until something was done.
The dams: Yali Falls and the rivers
The Se San and the Srepok run west out of the highlands into the Mekong. From 1993 they were dammed. At Yali Falls alone, 6,782 people were moved — three in five of them indigenous — into houses of thirty-nine square metres with no kitchen and no latrine, onto land that was promised and never arrived. Downstream, in Cambodia, people drowned in r...
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