Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make sure that no one was going against his will, Japanese Red Cross officials reminded all repatriates they were "free to choose to live in Japan, in South Korea or in North Korea." But in private interviews, only one 16-year-old girl backed out. After years of feeling unwanted in a-strange land, even those not lulled by Sung's song agreed with Bok Young Kyun, father of four, who said: "The children have no future in Japan and neither have...
...Japanese Red Cross predicted that some 50,000 of Japan's 600,000 Koreans would eventually depart for Communist territory. Crowed the North Korean newspaper Minju Chosun, "A great victory for the Socialist states...
Among Peking's suffering subjects, special torments are visited on those who live in Red China's own Wild West, the twice-Texas-sized, rugged but rich Sinkiang province. On one side it abuts Russian Kazakhstan, on the other Tibet, to which it is linked by the disputed Ladakh Road through Indian-occupied Kashmir. In Sinkiang as in neighboring Tibet, the Chinese are an invading minority. Half a million Chinese are outnumbered by 4,500,000 hard-riding, xenophobic Moslem herdsmen, the Uighurs and Kazakhs, who pledge friendship by daubing their foreheads with lamb's blood...
Since then, according to refugees from Sinkiang who have made it to Hong Kong, Moslem resistance has flickered across Sinkiang. In the Altai mountains, tribesmen fought Red troops for two months. From Kara Kash came word of a 23-year-old Moslem woman called Pashakhan, who, waving a star-and-crescent flag, led a crowd from a mosque to sack the local police station and to fight on with captured weapons for two weeks before being taken and shot...
...fighting heroes last week. Major Huber Matos, former commander of Camagüey Province, stood accused before a rebel tribunal of what Armed Forces Chief Raul Castro called "the dirty business of anti-Communism." But Matos, who was jailed after he quit the army charging Red infiltration, managed to turn the force of the trial against Fidel Castro's leftist dictatorship...