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N’Trang Lơng and the Mnong resistance
For more than twenty years, from 1912 to 1935, the Mnong of the upper Chhlong river held the French out of their country. Their leader was N’Trang Lơng, a Mnong koragn — a man of knowledge and a mediator, not a hereditary chief. His people killed the explorer Henri Maître, destroyed French posts, stopped a colonial road, and governed themselves...
Roads, taxes and forced labor, 1899–1945
French rule came to our villages as a tax to pay in cash and days of unpaid work on roads. The roads carried soldiers, officials and, later, the plantations onto our land. More than once, the work itself set off a revolt.
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