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...most of this century, Beulah, N. Dak., was a sleepy prairie town with two grocery stores and a pair of gas stations. Founded in 1913 and named for the niece of the region's largest landowner, Beulah was populated mostly by farmers and coal miners. Then, in 1978, the Department of Energy announced that it would finance a $2.1 billion commercial synthetic-fuels plant, the first in the U.S., to be built on the outskirts of Beulah. Operated by a five-member consortium of energy companies, including Tenneco and Transco Energy, the 600-acre project would turn coal into natural...
...Mehndi: Dung dung dara dara dung dung. Technician: Ding ding da di da da DAK? Tumbi player: Ta blakakak dak dak? Mehndi: Neh. Dabadung dakadaka dakadaka DING...
...Since Easter, security has been ratcheted up in the Highlands. Relatives of people who have fled their towns, either for the border with Cambodia or for closer hideouts, are regularly questioned by police and local officials. Some are made to take loyalty oaths, which one district leader in Dak Nong province refers to as "brotherhood ceremonies." Farmers are followed to their fields, their shopping is monitored lest they buy food for those in hiding, and security personnel are billeted in people's homes, particularly those with relatives who earlier fled to the U.S. (Highlands officials say government representatives live...
...evidence, the government cites confessions, separatist banners allegedly carried in the marches, and the fact that Ksor announced prior to Easter that the protests would take place. Several Montagnards, including Ksor's uncle and mother, have denounced him in the state-controlled media. Dak Lak officials screened for TIME four minutes of edited video footage in which some protesters indeed advance on riot police and militiamen, but it's impossible to tell from the fragment who started the clashes, and the rest of the tape wasn't made available. Gia Lai Governor Pham The Dung even goes...
...land and religious rights and the removal of soldiers from villages?not for an independent state. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International assert that the security forces initiated the fighting and incited civilians to attack the marchers, injuring hundreds. A doctor who was on duty that weekend in Dak Lak's main hospital told TIME that "many" people came in with head wounds, while other people with injuries avoided hospitals for fear of arrest. A group of 17 farmers encountered in Gia Lai and two others interviewed separately claim that a protester from their village died after being shot...