Word: dak
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...close to the disgruntled ethnic minorities known as the Montagnards. When journalists are allowed, as TIME was this month, they are so strictly monitored that it's hard to make contact with the local people. The Montagnards understand this all too well. In the Cu Mgar district of Dak Lak province, a middle-aged woman waves as a reporter walks past, forms an X with her two index fingers in front of her mouth, then clenches her fists and holds her wrists together, as if handcuffed. Other Montagnards grant furtive interviews but are too scared to be identified by name...
...These grievances have occasionally boiled over into antigovernment protests. Last Easter weekend, several thousand Montagnards gathered in Dak Lak, Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces and clashed with waiting security forces. It was the largest show of protest in Vietnam since 2001, when similar demonstrations occurred in the same region. On this, both sides agree. On every other point, bitter disputes rage. The Communist Party of Vietnam insists that only two people died during the April clashes; Human Rights Watch, the New York City-based NGO, has recorded 10 deaths, while Amnesty International counts eight and says it "fears...
...Crackdowns have increased in the past year after some 20,000 Montagnards held a week of protests against religious persecution. One night last year, a 16-year-old named A'Noul (she asked for her full name to be withheld) was at home in a village in Dak Lak province when three vans roared up and two dozen Vietnamese police spilled out. They burst into her house, swept books and clothes onto the floor and said, as A'Noul recalls, "'If you don't give us your Bible, we will take you and put you in prison.'" She adds...
Close to half a million bikers will pour into Sturgis, S. Dak, this week for the annual motorcycle rally, revving their hogs to a deafening pitch and baring their Harley-Davidson tattoos for all to see. But no matter how much leather they don, most will have a hard time looking tough. There will probably be far more aging white-collar baby boomers trying to recapture their imaginary rebellious youth than Hell's Angels flaunting it. The average age of a Harley devotee is now 45, up from 37 a decade ago; 20% are over...
...while most people, like Nguyen Van Quyen, merely want to get on with their lives. When he and his wife, Linh, moved to their one-room wooden shack a year ago, just days after they married, they were escaping dismal prospects back home in Ha Tinh province. Here in Dak Lak, he's eager to begin cultivating his leased hectare. "It's hard going, yes, but I knew it would be. I want a good life for my family," he says, pointing to his four-month-old son: a frontier baby who faces the volatile complexities of a changing Vietnam...