The new Egyptian army suppressed a peasant revolt by killing thousands including kin
Evidence
In the event, forty-five officers were shot in front of their soldiers. Eventually the rebellion was brought down by Osman Bey, the colonel of the first regiment, which was on its way to the Sudan. … In one incident it was reported that one of the sergeants of Osman Bey’s regiment, when attacking a certain village found his own father among the rebels, and failing to convince him to give in peacefully, proceeded to kill him. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 410
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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- Egyptian conscripts fought and killed their own rebel relatives (similarity 0.85)
- Egyptian peasants overwhelmingly resisted conscription despite ideological appeals, via open rebellion (similarity 0.84)
- Over 30,000 Egyptians rebelled against Mehmed Ali’s conscription in 1824 (similarity 0.84)
- Egyptian peasants blinded and mutilated themselves to evade conscription. (similarity 0.84)
- Egyptian peasants maimed themselves to escape conscription into Mehmed Ali’s army (similarity 0.83)
- Egyptian peasants openly rebelled against Muhammad Ali’s conscription policies (similarity 0.83)
- Egyptian conscripts resisted the Pasha’s army through desertion and self-mutilation (similarity 0.83)
- Egyptian peasants strongly resisted conscription into the modern army (similarity 0.81)
- Egyptian peasants strongly resisted conscription into Mehmed Ali’s army. (similarity 0.81)
- Hospitalized Egyptian soldiers violently resisted medical authority. (similarity 0.80)
- Egyptian soldiers feigned illness to escape front-line duty. (similarity 0.80)
- Conscription triggered two major open rebellions in Egypt (similarity 0.80)
- Egyptian peasant conscripts hated the army so much they deserted and maimed themselves. (similarity 0.80)
- Egyptian peasants universally hated conscription into Mehmed Ali’s army (similarity 0.80)
- Conscript soldiers resisted the Pasha’s project and undermined his army’s power (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Egyptian peasants blinded and mutilated themselves to evade conscription.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1306 - Egyptian peasants maimed themselves to escape conscription into Mehmed Ali’s army
#exemplifies(0.80) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1352 - Egyptian peasants strongly resisted conscription into the modern army
#expands(0.70) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 41 - Egyptian peasants overwhelmingly resisted conscription despite ideological appeals, via open rebellion
#expands(0.70) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 471 - Egyptian peasants strongly resisted conscription into Mehmed Ali’s army.
#expands(0.70) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 92