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Taxes soared to pay for his wars, and more and more peasants had to abandon their fields when press-ganged into his armies.
Then come the hard men, often masked, who separate the important ones from the peasants.
The paper said an armed Islamic group in the Moroccan border town of Oujda had murdered about 10 peasants, and commented that "the appearance of Islamic terrorism in Morocco constitutes a grave danger for the stability of the Maghreb region."
The Communists, who had already organized the support of millions of peasants, gathered strength in the south.
He supported the Untouchables and defended the rights of village artisans and peasants, but his non-violent movement could not stop the escalating riots among the religious communities.