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Mondulkiri, 1992: the end of the armed struggle In September 1992 two journalists walked into the forest of Mondulkiri, in eastern Cambodia, and found 407 FULRO guerrillas and their families living in five villages with six churches, still fighting a war that had ended seventeen years before. Nobody had told them that their president had been killed in 1975. On October 10 they handed 194 weap... Explainer 171 views Read More Asylum today: Cambodia, Thailand, and the reach of the state For twenty-five years the way out of the highlands has been west, on foot into Cambodia, and then onward to Bangkok. Both doors have been closing. Cambodia shut its border sites in 2002, sent back hundreds of people and has recognized almost none since. In Thailand our people live as illegal migrants with a UN card that Thai law does not recogni... Explainer 133 views Read More Cu Kuin, June 2023 — and the trial that followed At about half past midnight on Sunday, June 11, 2023, two groups of armed men attacked the commune headquarters at Ea Tieu and Ea Ktur in Cu Kuin district, Dak Lak. Nine people were killed: four police officers, two commune officials, and three civilians whose names have never been published. We do not defend that attack and nothing on this page... Explainer 167 views Read More Y Quynh Buondap Y Quynh Buondap is a Rhade Christian from Dak Lak who spent his twenties collecting the names of our prisoners and writing down what was done to our churches. He fled to Thailand with his family in 2018, was recognized as a refugee by the United Nations, and helped found Montagnards Stand for Justice. In January 2024 a Vietnamese court he never... Spotlight 78 views Read More Our organizations A directory of the organizations that Dega people in exile have founded, and of the groups that work closely with us: what each is, where it is, when it began, and what has happened to it since. We list them so that readers know who is who. Listing an organization here is not an endorsement of everything it says, and none of them speaks for us. Reference 78 views Read More Thailand’s screening mechanism: what it offers a Dega refugee Thailand has no refugee law. It has one procedure, written in 2019 and switched on in September 2023, that can give a person who cannot go home a Thai status called “Protected Person.” In its first thirty months it produced seven of them, out of an urban caseload of more than five thousand five hundred. All seven were granted in the first thirte... Explainer 80 views Read More Beyond North Carolina: Canada and other countries Most of us who were resettled went to the United States, and a smaller number to Canada. But the second country to take us was not Canada. It was Finland, in May 2005, a month before the first flight to Vancouver, and about seventy-five of our people went there. Nobody has written a word about them in twenty-one years. That is the shape of every... Explainer 66 views Read More