Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night fell, the shellfire began again, but this time it was the Greek guns firing out of the town on rebel positions high in the mountains to the northeast...
Brown-eyed Dimitri Kutseos, 16-year-old rebel guerrilla, was one of 40 captured in the battle at Konitsa. Dressed in a grey-green Rumanian military tunic, as were many of his comrades, he looked a sad little figure. Colonel Valadas, commanding the Loyalists in Konitsa, remarked: "When you catch them they say they were forcibly recruited; but when they fight, they fight like hell...
...rebels had dynamited the Bourazani bridge across the rain-swollen Aoos River, apparently the only avenue of relief (see map). When Greek army engineers tried to repair the bridge, they were dispersed by rebel shells from high ground to the north...
...Mountain Division, sent a detachment up to Konitsa by a mule track. This force, pushing through a thin screen of snipers, got into the town across an old Turkish bridge. Thus Konitsa was reinforced by 2,000 men. Ebullient government communiqués claimed that the "routed" rebels were fleeing north into Albania and east into their Gramos Mountain stronghold. But next day the rebels attacked Konitsa again. At week's end, they attacked Philiates, near the coast opposite Corfu, 45 miles from Konitsa. Government officers, somewhat apologetically, explained that the stubborn rebel campaign was planned by a Russian...
Greek soldiers, sitting in ditches, stared incredulously at the bus and its occupants. The commissioners stared back. They saw and heard plenty to indicate that rebel leader Markos Vafiades was getting help from "abroad." Artillery officers said that Greece had never had a 65-mm. gun, such as the rebels were using. Rebel prisoners admitted that they had moved freely back & forth across the Albanian frontier. Greek Spitfire pilots said they saw a column of trucks moving toward the border from the Albanian town of Leskovik. But the "Greek Situation" would not be resolved by U.N. commissions...