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...often had no water and no fuel," said the goateed Kazak Thaji (Chief) Kussa In. "Sometimes we lived only on the animals' milk. Often we killed camels to get drinking water." Forty of the Thaji's party, including the youngest of his three wives, nine brothers, and two boys, aged one and five, were lost. One night while they slept in their tents at Urduk on the Tibetan frontier, the nomad refugees were attacked by Communists, who killed eight men and drove away 300 sheep, 13 camels and 25 horses. "But we killed ten Reds," said Thaji Kussa...
Better to Live Poor. Despite their hardships, the Kazaks were cheerful. The men were clean-shaven and clear-eyed. The women's cheeks were like red apples; their flowing black robes were hung with silver coins to denote the wealth of their menfolk. Once-wealthy Kussa In himself displayed a huge Swiss watch at the end of a silver chain on his corduroy jacket. "Of the hundreds of horses I once owned," he said, "only six are left, and now I am selling them. But it is better to live poor in a land where one can follow...
...Some of Kussa In's followers hoped to go on to Mecca to give thanks to Allah. Others planned to get jobs as teamsters. And what of those who had fallen into the hands of the Reds? "The lucky ones," said Thaji Kussa In, "were shot...
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