20 août 1916 - Uprisings of 20 August

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A description of one such assembly – on the eve of the uprising – between the Atekinskaia and Sarybagishevskaia volosts is given in the deposition of a native Pishpek resident, Mulla-Sufi Konushpaev. According to Konushpaev, the first call to arms against the authorities came from Alimqul Taubaldin, who “vehemently agitated” against the draft, and took an oath, along with 100 other men of the Atekinskaia volost’, to “die fighting the Russians” in early August. The meeting of the Ateke and Sarybaghysh Kyrgyz took place on the day of the uprising, immediately after the first attacks of the Sarybaghysh Kyrgyz on the neighbouring Russian settlements, on 7 August. The dignitaries (or “honourable persons”, as they were known in colonial parlance, included figures as diverse as native administrators, community elders, popular leaders and religious figures), of the two volosts gathered on the bridge over the Kebin river and, after an exchange of vows, proclaimed the brother of the Sarybagishevskaia volost’ head, Makush Shabdanov, their khan. Collapsing p150

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