If the army is seen as taking away their incomes, some officers say, more peasants will join the ranks of Shining Path.
The peasants and the peddler joined Conan's party aboard the ferry.
Many peasants joined the Revolution, attacking their enemies with pitchforks and sickles.
Both economic and direct police pressure were used to coerce peasants to join cooperatives, but large numbers opted instead to leave their villages.
Additionally, even German peasants who had recently come to the area as colonists joined his uprising for economic reasons.
Choe Deokyeong's 300 peasants joined them from the north.
Some peasants also joined in the protests, adding greater land reforms to the list of demands by the rebelling priests.
He was unable to prevent the peasants slaughtering their cattle and joining the collective farm without any livestock at all.
The peasants join together, and one girl envisions a future in which they will "make a free world for all men".
About 5000 peasants from 130 villages in the area joined the unrest.
