A country of our own, 1946Between 1946 and 1955 our country existed on paper.
The Kon Tum mission, 1851In the last weeks of 1850 a French priest of twenty-five, guided in by a…
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.
The first outsiders: Cham, Annam and the missionsThree powers came to the edge of the highlands before the French, and each left…
Mondulkiri, 1992: the end of the armed struggleIn September 1992 two journalists walked into the forest of Mondulkiri, in…
Asylum today: Cambodia, Thailand, and the reach of the stateFor twenty-five years the way out of the highlands has been west, on foot into…
North CarolinaThe largest community of our people outside Vietnam is in North Carolina, in…
The Cambodian camps, 2001–2005The border between Vietnam and Cambodia runs through the middle of one people.
The wider diasporaNorth Carolina holds the largest community of our people outside Vietnam, but…
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…
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…
Timeline: 875 to todayThe Dega story in one place, from the Cham kingdom on the coast to the…
What we do not knowEvery page in this library carries its sources and says where it is thin.
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…
Reporting an incident to DCHOHow to bring something to us, what we do with it, where it can go, and what we…
What Vietnam signed, and what happens in the highlandsVietnam has ratified the major human rights treaties, voted for the Declaration…
Indigenous rights at the United Nations, and why the word mattersInternational law offers a people in our position two bodies of rights.
What the Dega ask forThree aims, rooted in FULRO’s first declarations of 1964 and 1965 and set down…
Land law and customary landIn Vietnam nobody owns land.
What the United Nations has saidOur people have been named in United Nations documents for more than thirty…
How many Dega there areThere are more of us than there have ever been, and we have never been so small…
Who are the DegaWe are the indigenous peoples of the Central Highlands of Indochina: some…
The tribes and their languagesAround thirty peoples, in two language families that are not related to one…
The country itselfOur country is a stair of high plateaus behind the Annamite mountains, between…
Dega cultureA village, the land around it held in common, kinship that decides obligation…
Cu Kuin, June 2023 — and the trial that followedAt about half past midnight on Sunday, June 11, 2023, two groups of armed men…
The land, and what was planted on itVietnam went from a marginal coffee producer to the second largest in the world…
The church they closedMost of us are Christians, and the state has decided that one form of our…
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…
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…
Paul Nưr and Nay Luett: the ministry yearsTwo men who tried the other route.North Carolina has set this day aside in the Dega people’s name. Governor Josh Stein has proclaimed September 20, 2026 — the day this organization keeps as Dega Day — Montagnard Dega People’s Day across the state.
Ten months after he was taken from Dak Lak, Pastor Y Nuen Ayun was sentenced on August 11, 2026, to seven and a half years in prison, with four years of probation to follow.
In the first six months of 2026, 119 Christians in Gia Lai province were subjected to enforcement measures. The figure is not an estimate by an outside group. It comes from the province.
On June 1, 2026, the police in Gia Lai arrested Pastor Siu Yúi, aged 68, and Siu Dok, aged 40, of his congregation. The state says they used religious teaching to move highland people toward separation.
Y Quynh Bdap was a recognized refugee. On November 28, 2025, Thailand handed him to Vietnam, where he had already been sentenced to ten years without being present. Within a week, eleven UN experts said the transfer had broken international law.
On October 8, 2025, the Dak Lak provincial police detained Pastor Y Nuen Ayun of the Montagnard Evangelical Church of Christ. The accusation was that he had spread false information about religious practice in the Central Highlands and defamed the authorities by describing how...
On July 18, 2025, the UN Human Rights Committee finished its review of Vietnam under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and put a word to what Dega churches have described for years: systematic.
Nay Y’Blang has already served four years for refusing to leave his church. In January 2025 the police called him in again, and this time they filmed him promising to give it up.
On April 20, 2023, people from Ea Bhok commune stood in the way of a scheme to release waste water into Ea Mta lake. They were met with batons and electric whips.
Siu Hiêm told the people in the shop that the drink he had just been handed was poisoned. He died in front of them minutes later, on June 2, 2022. The officers who came, his family says, did nothing.
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