The People’s Committee of Gia Lai announced a plan to re-create the Stor resistance village in the hometown of ethnic minority hero Dinh Nup.  It will be located in the province’s Kbang district and serve as a historical landmark and tourist destination. 

The Stor village, depicted in veteran author Nguyen Ngoc’s famous novel “Dat nuoc dung len” (The country rises up), was where Nup (1914 - 1999) gathered his Bana and Ede ethnic minority fellowmen to join guerrilla groups and safeguard the area against French troops’ raids during the country’s resistance war (1946-1954). The village was also the first of its kind to be erected in the area.

Several seminars have been held to garner opinions from experts, including author Nguyen Ngoc, concerning the reproduction of the village.

According to the plan, the Stor village will be modeled after an existing native village and built on a 3-hectare area opposite a memorial honoring hero Nup in the same district. The village is expected to cost around VND15 billion (US$707,550) and will open to the public in 2015.

Apart from being a popular tourist spot, the village will be a venue for locals’ traditional activities such as brocade weaving and gong tuning and playing.

Dinh Nup, also known as Sar, joined the resistance war against the French in 1935, when he refused to yield to French soldiers and fought back with his crossbow to prove to his fellowmen that French troops weren’t invincible.

He was fully depicted in Ngoc’s novel in historically accurate detail. The novel has since been adapted into a film.