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Tet 1968 in the highlands
In the early hours of January 30, 1968, the Tet Offensive reached the highland towns of Ban Me Thuot, Kontum and Pleiku; Dalat was attacked on February 1. For a week or more the fighting was in the streets. The towns were our market towns and provincial capitals, and the villages around them carried the war before, during and after.
Highland refugees of the war years
Between the early 1960s and 1975 most of our people were driven from their villages at least once. The anthropologist Gerald Hickey estimated that at least 200,000 highlanders were killed in the war and that more than 85 percent were displaced as refugees. This page gathers what the record shows about how that happened, and what it leaves out.
Highland women in the war, 1954–1975
In the written record of the war, highland women appear mostly in the background: as the families in the camps, as the dead in the villages. When the record lets them come forward, they are nurses and midwives in training, and in one case a woman speaking for herself. This page gathers what we have found, and says plainly how much is missing.
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