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Y Bham Enuol: the early years and BAJARAKA He was born in 1913 in the village beside the mission at Ban Me Thuot, went through three schools the French and the missionaries had built, and became an agricultural official in the provinces he would later petition about. In 1958 he put his name to letters asking President Diem, three foreign embassies and the United Nations to look at what w... Explainer 68 views Read More Indigenous rights at the United Nations, and why the word matters International law offers a people in our position two bodies of rights. One protects minorities. The other protects indigenous peoples, and it goes much further: it deals in land, consent and a people’s own institutions, not only in tolerance. Which one applies to the Dega turns on a single contested word. Vietnam says it has no indigenous peopl... Reference 133 views Read More What the United Nations has said Our people have been named in United Nations documents for more than thirty years: in our own submissions, in the findings of the treaty bodies that examine Vietnam, in the reports of experts who visited, in letters from independent experts to the governments of Vietnam and Thailand, and in the Secretary-General’s reports on reprisals. This page... Reference 107 views Read More What Y Bham Enuol actually asked for Seventeen years of demands, as they were written down at the time. Read in order they show a case that never changed in substance and got smaller every year in what it asked for: a commission of inquiry in 1958, a country in 1964, a statute and a flag in 1965, eight points in 1967, a political party and a flag in 1968, and, from a house in Phnom... Reference 70 views Read More Kok Ksor A Jarai from Bon Broai who joined BAJARAKA at fourteen, went over the border at seventeen, came home from a war by way of a Khmer Republic training course in Virginia, and spent the second half of his life in a small city in South Carolina making our case in rooms where states have to listen. For thirty years Kok Ksor was the Dega most foreign g... Spotlight 89 views Read More Vietnam and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples On September 13, 2007, Vietnam voted for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and said nothing. Twenty-nine states explained their votes that day. Vietnam was not among them; it appears in the record of that meeting exactly once, in the list of the 143 in favor. In the years since it has told four separate UN mechanisms that the D... Explainer 75 views Read More Ha Mon: the Catholic movement the state calls an “evil way” In a village on the Krong Poko, in the last years before the water came, a Bahnar woman named Y Gyin said that the Mother of God had appeared to her and had told her people to gather, to pray, and not to let themselves be moved. Within four years the reservoir was over the ground she named. Within eleven the state had run public denunciation mee... Explainer 72 views Read More