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Reports and documents
The human rights record of the Dega since 1975 is written mainly in reports: by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, by governments, by the United Nations, and by Dega organizations themselves. This page lists the ones we rely on, in order, with a line on what each contains. Most are free to read.
What Washington has said
The United States recruited, armed and paid tens of thousands of Dega soldiers, and since 1986 has given many of their families a home. Congress has returned to the subject again and again: in hearings, in resolutions, and in reports by its own researchers. This page lists the record, so that anyone writing to their representative can cite what...
Stateless in our own country
Thousands of highland families in Vietnam have no identity papers. Without them a child cannot go to school, a couple cannot register a marriage, a family cannot hold land, see a doctor on insurance or open a bank account. Our people were born in the highlands, as were their parents, and they have never lived anywhere else. Many of them are stat...
The Law on Belief and Religion (2018)
Vietnam’s Law on Belief and Religion came into force on January 1, 2018. It makes worship lawful only through a registered, state-approved organization. For Dega house churches, which have never been allowed to register as themselves, it turned an old practice into statute. The UN Human Rights Committee has found that it “unduly restricts” freed...
Our defenders and prisoners
Short records of highland people imprisoned for their faith, their organizing or their testimony, as documented by independent monitors. Each entry gives what the record shows and where it comes from. Many more names are in our prisoner records; this page profiles those whose cases are best documented.
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