The Kon Tum mission, 1851In the last weeks of 1850 a French priest of twenty-five, guided in by a…
The first outsiders: Cham, Annam and the missionsThree powers came to the edge of the highlands before the French, and each left…
A country of our own, 1946Between 1946 and 1955 our country existed on paper.
Before 1800: free in the highlandsFor longer than anyone has written history on this coast, the people of the…
The French arrive, 1876–1929We let the French in.
Mondulkiri, 1992: the end of the armed struggleIn September 1992 two journalists walked into the forest of Mondulkiri, in…
The Cambodian camps, 2001–2005The border between Vietnam and Cambodia runs through the middle of one people.
North CarolinaThe largest community of our people outside Vietnam is in North Carolina, in…
Thailand’s screening mechanism: what it offers a Dega refugeeThailand has no refugee law.
The wider diasporaNorth Carolina holds the largest community of our people outside Vietnam, but…
Reports and documentsThe human rights record of our people since 1975 is written mainly in reports…
Archives and collectionsMost of the written evidence of our history is kept by the governments, armies…
Language resourcesOur languages are the part of our inheritance most at risk and the easiest to…
Books about the DegaA reading list for anyone who wants to understand the Dega properly, our own…
Theses and academic studiesA guide to the doctoral and master’s theses and the academic studies written…
What we do not knowEvery page in this library carries its sources and says where it is thin.
Timeline: 875 to todayThe Dega story in one place, from the Cham kingdom on the coast to the…
Names and wordsReading about the Dega means reading four vocabularies at once, ours, the…
The prisoner records: what they are and how to search themOur records hold 337 Dega by name, men and one woman imprisoned for their…
How to document an incidentA report that a human rights body can act on looks different from a report that…
Land law and customary landIn Vietnam nobody owns land.
Indigenous rights at the United Nations, and why the word mattersInternational law offers a people in our position two bodies of rights.
What the United Nations has saidOur people have been named in United Nations documents for more than thirty…
What the Dega ask forThree aims, rooted in FULRO’s first declarations of 1964 and 1965 and set down…
What Vietnam signed, and what happens in the highlandsVietnam has ratified the major human rights treaties, voted for the Declaration…
Who are the DegaWe are the indigenous peoples of the Central Highlands of Indochina: some…
How many Dega there areThere are more of us than there have ever been, and we have never been so small…
The tribes and their languagesAround thirty peoples, in two language families that are not related to one…
Dega cultureA village, the land around it held in common, kinship that decides obligation…
The country itselfOur country is a stair of high plateaus behind the Annamite mountains, between…
The land, and what was planted on itVietnam went from a marginal coffee producer to the second largest in the world…
How we diedHundreds of thousands of our people were killed in wars fought across our land…
February 2001: the highlands stand upOn Friday, February 2, 2001, eight hundred people from four communes walked out…
Cu Kuin, June 2023 — and the trial that followedAt about half past midnight on Sunday, June 11, 2023, two groups of armed men…
The church they closedMost of us are Christians, and the state has decided that one form of our…
FULRO, 1964–1992On the night of September 19, 1964, the strike forces of four American-trained…
BAJARAKA, 1958BAJARAKA is four peoples in one word: BAhnar, JArai, RAde, KAho.
Mike Force, SOG and the special operations warFrom 1964 the Americans stopped asking our men to guard their own villages and…
Dak Son, December 5, 1967On the night of December 5, 1967, Viet Cong troops with flamethrowers burned a…
The American years, 1961–1975It began in one Rhade village six kilometers from Buon Ma Thuot, in October…
A humanitarian mission, coordinated by the organization, for Dega refugees and asylum-seekers in Thailand. It works to strengthen unity across the Dega peoples, meet practical and protection needs, and give institutions reliable, community-informed information.
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We document the cases of Dega people arrested, beaten, deported or forced to renounce their churches, and carry them to governments, human rights bodies and the press. Each report names its sources.
Read the reportsDega families who fled the highlands need help to rebuild their lives far from home. Our refugee fundraiser pays for that help.
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A free Rhade–English dictionary of more than 3,000 words, many with pictures, built from the printed record of the language. It is also an app for iPhone.
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A free Jorai–English dictionary of 2,681 words, drafted from the 2016 Jorai Bible. It is a first edition: fluent readers are checking it word by word.
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deganation.org can be read in English, Rhade and Jorai, from its menus to all 140 articles of its library. Bunong and Koho are being prepared with fluent readers.
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