Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bagdad newspapers accused the Assyrians of coming down like wolves on Irak troops and starting all the trouble. Their story was that an Assyrian rebel chief named Yaku has been weaving back & forth across the frontier between Irak and French Syria where he is suspected of obtaining arms. Not long ago Yaku, after treating with agents of the Irak Government, agreed to return and give up his arms. Instead he swooped with wolflike treachery upon a small Irak force sent to accept his surrender, killed 20 Iraki, wounded 45. Worse than treachery, according to the Mohammedan point of view...
...reprisal King Feisal's commander on the Irak-Syrian frontier, fierce Bekir Sidqui Beg, hired Kurds to reenforce his troops and started a slaughter of all Assyrians he could lay hands on, despite the fact that wolf-raiding Rebel Yaku headed a band of not more than 1,000 Assyrians, whereas the Assyrian minority in Irak numbers 40,000, mostly peaceful. In a few days of fanatical Mohammedan slaughter 600 Assyrian villagers were put to the sword, according to British investigators. In Bagdad suave Irak Premier Rashid Ali Beg called the British reports "exaggerated," partially confirmed them when...
...hope this favorable action will at least keep one damned rebel...
...Oriente Province, where armed rebellion still sputtered and flared last week, Cubans learned of the resourcefulness of Corporal Gort. With two privates Corporal Gort captured six men accused of participating in the rebel raid on San Luis fortnight ago (TIME, May 8) and started to march them back to Santiago. Suddenly he realized that he was outnumbered two to one. Drawing his revolver he shot four prisoners dead and herded the other two into town...
...Rebel...