The French engaged in punitive raids into S?n D??ng, burning down 69 homes, forcing the villages to pay extra taxes and perform corvee labour to rebuild the destroyed French property in L�m Thao.
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Later versions are set in the Qin dynasty, when Lady Meng Jiang's husband was pressed into service by imperial officials and sent as corvee labor to build the Great Wall of China.
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French concentrated on the development of infrastructure, the abolition of slavery and indentured servitude ( although corvee labor was still in effect ), trade including opium production, and most importantly the collection of taxes.
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One type of tax was corvee labor under the supervision of " kuni ", and the other was a tax on farm products ( about three percent of rice or other farm products ).
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The prolonged drought, labor migration, harassing corvees which caused a loss of time and the fleau de profiteurs de gurerre were the key elements in the Ruzagayura famine that struck Ruanda in 1943.
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Zhidar was unpopular for his corvee tax ( he sought to rebuild a major dzong in one year, an unreasonable goal ), as well as for his overtures to the Manchu Emperors which threatened Bhutanese independence.
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During this period, Anouvong's retinue and one of his sons were impressed into corvee labor projects, including digging canals, felling of sugar palms, harvesting bamboo, and constructing the Phra Samut Chedi.
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Most probably, the great mass of workers were neither being paid nor were they slaves-- they were peasants fulfilling corvee obligations . . . talk ) 15 : 53, 12 December 2011 ( UTC)
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Historians have noted that in " Kurdistan Jews, Nestorians and Armenians were subject to tallage and corvees at whim of authorities, and this period witnessed massacres of Christians in Kurdistan in the mid-19th century ".
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The history of forced population transfers, corvee labor projects, loss of national symbols and prestige ( most notably the Emerald Buddha ) formed the backdrop to specific actions taken by Rama III to directly annex the Isan region.
