Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Save for Judas, those named for the Passion play sympathize with these outcasts. Manolios, the shepherd playing Jesus, finally leads the town to revolt against its leaders. Their revolt soon deflates, however, and they join their pope in a battle against the exiles which forces the Turkish Agha to deliver Manolios to death at the hands of his townspeople. Shocked by the crime, townsmen begin to join the exiles against the Turks...
...could do. At Budapest, in October and November 1956, Hungarian freedom fighters, workers, students, soldiers proved the Communist puppet government to be a hollow sham, reveled in five days of freedom, looked to the U.S. and the U.N. for help. The U.S. had no plan of action, and the revolt was smashed, but with it were smashed Communist pretensions of benevolent big brotherhood and Moscow's hopes for reliance on satellite armies...
Most of the converts were Hakkas, members of an outsider ethnic group to which Hung himself belonged. Social scientists might call them havenots; Toynbee would call them an internal proletariat. What with famine poverty, and the corruption of the Manchus, the Hakkas were ripe for revolt...
Asian Algeria. The smashing of the revolt in Lhasa was as brutal as the action of Soviet Russian tanks in Budapest. But Tibet is not another Hungary: it is more likely to become Red China's Algeria, a festering war to the knife that can be neither won nor lost. The Communist garrisons should be able to hold the cities and the main roads. They can even find a handful of Tibetan collaborators, like their tame puppet, the tenth Panchen Lama, a wan young man of 22 who is unable to control the monks of his own lamaseries...
...week's end the Khamba rebels were reportedly joined by equally fierce Amdowa and Golok tribesmen, spreading the fires of revolt the length and breadth of Tibet, and putting into the field against the Chinese Reds an estimated 100,000 warriors, who were carrying the fight to the Chinese provinces of Szechwan and Tsinghai as well as Tibet proper. The Red radio protested plaintively that "reactionary elements" from China itself had joined the battle...