Word: counterterrorism
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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British Governor General Sir Knox Helm (since resigned) ordered the Negro soldiers to surrender to the authorities. Trusting the British, some 700 mutineers gave themselves up, but a campaign of counterterror launched by the northern Sudanese put the rest to flight. Some Negro rebels cast off their uniforms and returned to tribal life; others went on pillaging villages. Thousands of tribesmen fled with their families to the Belgian Congo and Uganda. District commissioners tried captured rebels in drumhead courts, ordered 168 executed by firing squads...