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Sabatier, the oath of 1926 and the Rhade law code
For thirteen years a French administrator named Léopold Sabatier governed Darlac on the principle that the land belonged to the Rhade and that outsiders should be kept off it. He set up a court that judged by Rhade law, a school that taught in Rhade, and on January 1, 1926, an oath-taking assembly of the chiefs. The same year he was removed, and...
Kin across the border: Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri
The border between Vietnam and Cambodia runs through the middle of our country. On the other side of it, in the Cambodian provinces of Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri, live Jarai, Bunong (Mnong) and other highland peoples who are our kin by language, by marriage and by history. It is where FULRO’s last fighters came out in 1992, where our refugees ran...
Rubber
Coffee is the crop most people associate with the highlands, and we write about it in Land taken for coffee. Rubber is the older story. It came with the French, it was worked by people who died in large numbers doing it, and in our own time it has taken highland land in Vietnam and in Cambodia and Laos, where our kin live.
The Stieng (Xtiêng)
The Stieng live at the south-western edge of the highlands, where the plateau falls toward the plains north of Saigon, in today’s Bình Phước and across the border in Cambodia. Their red soils were taken for French rubber plantations, and they rose against both French and Vietnamese settlement repeatedly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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