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Dak Son, December 5, 1967
Shortly before midnight on December 5, 1967, some six hundred Viet Cong soldiers carrying flamethrowers came into the Montagnard settlement of Dak Son in Phuoc Long province. By morning more than 250 people were dead, most of them burned in their houses or suffocated in the shelters they had dug to protect their children. TIME magazine called it...
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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