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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 American years, 1961–1975
It began in one Rhade village in October 1961 with two Americans and no authority to speak of, and grew within a year into an armed network covering 200 villages and 60,000 people. Dega soldiers became among the most reliable troops in the highlands. By the end, over 200,000 of our people were dead and 85 per cent of our villages destroyed or ab...
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