Egyptian conscription seized men arbitrarily, roping them by the neck in groups

Evidence

Lacking this vital information, the conscripting officers, on receiving their orders, would descend upon any given village and seize as many men as could be found “without any order, arrangement, inscription, or lot-drawing.” These men would then be tied together with ropes around their necks in groups of six or eight. They would then be marched off to the training camps escorted by the “conscription gang.” leaving behind a “heart-stricken, sorrowful group” of wives, mothers and children wailing and screaming and hopelessly trying to prevent the soldiers from taking away their men. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 469

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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Broader Connections

• Egyptian peasants experienced conscription as oppressive taxation rather than patriotic service #exemplifies (0.70) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1670
• Egyptian peasants strongly resisted conscription into the modern army #exemplifies (0.60) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 41
• The Egyptian army replaced spectacular punishment with rehabilitative discipline #complicates (0.40) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 732
• Egyptian conscription pioneered Foucault’s disciplinary power on soldiers’ bodies #complicates (0.35) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 728