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.He knew he was being followed, and tried to get clear of them. Four officers stayed with him from Saigon to Bình Dương, and stopped him when he arrived.
Siu Nan fled to Thailand with his parents, was sent back in 2019, and was arrested on March 28, 2022. He was accused of intending to start a Dega group against the government.
Rmah Bit fled to Cambodia in 2015 and put his own name down for return. He came back to house arrest, lost a leg in a military hospital in 2020, and died in March 2022.
The driver knew he had hit the boy and did not stop. Y-El Kbuôr was dragged under the truck and lost his right foot. A second driver saw it, overtook, and forced him to stop.
On the morning of February 16, 2022, around 300 police entered Buôn Ea Khit, arrested the village’s pastor, and took phones from anyone who had one.
Hundreds of police, vans and ambulances were sent to Kon Rơ Wang for a land acquisition that the households there had not accepted. Y-Khuê stood in front of them with empty hands.
A delegation from the Dega Central Highlands Organization has traveled to El Paso for a veterans conference. These photographs are the record of it: the room, the uniforms, and the talk that ran long.
He was nineteen when he was sentenced over an argument between boys in his village. Three months later his family was told he was in the hospital. He was not. When they brought his body home and washed it, his chest was crushed and his face was broken.
Officers came at six in the morning on September 13, 2021. The two men were taken over classes on religion and basic human rights, and over their membership of the International Dega Church.
Before he signed his release papers the police held a party for him, with food and bottles of soda. His family says the soda was poisoned. He went home, married, had three children, and began to fail in 2019.
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