Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having failed last autumn to win Konitsa for a capital of his "free Greek" shadow state, Vafiades was now expected to try for loannina, capital of Epirus. He was also expected to attack Salonika; 30 miles from that strategic port, a village was seized last week by 350. guerrillas. Two important tobacco towns in Thrace, Xanthe and Komotine, were shelled for the first time by guerrilla guns. In Thrace, and other parts of the fighting zone, Communist-laid road mines were making serious trouble. General Alexander Assimak-opoulos, able commander of the government's Seventh Division, was killed when...
...government [in China] not restricted to a small group and to clean up waste and corruption. But even more important, it must give definite, active consideration to the land problems of the peasantry. . . . This is critical from a purely military point of view. You can't win guerrilla warfare with the people against...
...many Greeks felt the way the captain did. The Greek Army, on its part, was learning the phrase which Major Ehrgott and the other Americans liked to use: "Oxi avrio-tora!" (Not tomorrow-now!). The Americans were learning, well before the spring thaws opened up the whole north Greece guerrilla country, that the military solution to the Andartes would involve more than night patrols...
Brown-eyed Dimitri Kutseos, 16-year-old rebel guerrilla, was one of 40 captured in the battle at Konitsa. Dressed in a grey-green Rumanian military tunic, as were many of his comrades, he looked a sad little figure. Colonel Valadas, commanding the Loyalists in Konitsa, remarked: "When you catch them they say they were forcibly recruited; but when they fight, they fight like hell...
...rebel squad was armed in Albania specially for the Konitsa attack with the Panzerfaust (a German-type bazooka) and Rumanian mines. Three of Dimitri's friends from Lamia tried to run away from the guerrilla band. "They were caught," said Dimitri, "and tied with ropes and the oldtimers came and kicked them to death before us in the light of the moon...