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COLOMBIAN PEASANTS CAUGHT IN WAR'S CROSSFIRE.(News) Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) (10/21/1999)
...a country that is already deeply fractured. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are being forcibly uprooted. Most are peasants caught in the crossfire between Marxist rebels and the right-wing paramilitary forces that seek to wipe them out. Fernando...rights groups estimate that more than half of the displaced have ...

Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside.(Review) (book review) History Today (5/1/2000)
Knights and Peasants The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside...population (the `knights' and `peasants' of the title). It is the...The war's impact on the peasant community is then considered...countryside, found both hapless peasants and their livestock being...

Innocent suffer in Angola war // Mined peasant farms become killing fields Chicago Sun-Times (9/14/1986)
...Angola's high central plateau, the war between the Marxist MPLA government and...become the country's new killing ground. Peasants increasingly are the victims. In what...Bie in the central zone, some 300,000 peasants have fled to government refugee centers...

Vietnam's southern revolution; from peasant insurrection to total war.(Brief article)(Book review) Reference & Research Book News (5/1/2009)
9781558496927 Vietnam's southern revolution; from peasant insurrection to total war. Hunt, David. U. of Massachusetts Press 2008 272 pages $28.95 Paperback DS559 Under contract with the US Department of Defense...

The power of peasant logic; Cold-war history.(Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary)(Book review) The Economist (US) (11/18/2006)
...fight against terror, the cold war seems to have been deceptively...do and neither really wanted war. Or did they? Aleksandr Fursenko...matters. "Khrushchev's Cold War" unravels the tangled contradictions...public record? Khrushchev used "peasant logic" to follow a convoluted...

War Nationalism and Peasants. Java under the Japanese Occupation: 1942-1945. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (9/1/1996)
...of rice and mobilization of labour for war effort. Sato does not offer a radical...rice surplus over subsistence needs of peasants. Sato argues that the shortage of rice...fourth less than that bought up by the pre-war rice sales centre in 1941 (p. 118...

ONE YEAR AFTER MASSACRE, WAR SIMMERS ON AS PEASANTS MOURN.(News) Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) (12/22/1998)
...has changed in Chiapas' sluggish war in the year since peasants aided by police marched into this...Acteal. Meanwhile, the low-level war between the government and leftist...Liberation Army rose up in a 12-day war in January 1994, then retreated...

UNO FEARS NICARAGUA CIVIL WAR SANDINISTAS GIVE PEASANTS AK-47S.(Main) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (3/8/1990)
...Officials of the National Opposition Union say they won't dislodge peasants from land that is being worked, even if it was expropriated...shouldn't give arms to civilians. It could provoke a civil war," Rivas said in an interview. Their rallies resound with...

A Land War In Brazil; Strengthened Peasant Movement Takes Farms, Clashes With Police The Washington Post (4/3/2000)
...Figueira Ranch, where about 400 landless peasants had been squatting for four months...By 9 that February morning, scores of peasants had emerged from shacks to confront the...they were wrong. Five days later, the peasants returned. "In the past, some people...

Marching to Captivity. The War Diaries of a French Peasant 1939-1945. (book reviews) History Today (11/1/1997)
...experience of the Second World War, it is the theme of memory...knowledge of the reality of the war for the French, a reality far...because it was kept by a French peasant from the Gard. As is often...Folcher's account is that as a peasant he is constantly noting details...

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