Packet M: Tossup 12

The CIA’s Operation Paper supplied an army of this ethnicity that expanded the Shan Hills opium trade in the 1950s. (-5[1])Pedro Bravo de Acuña initiated the first (-5[1])massacre of traders of this ethnicity when they rebelled at confinement in Parián districts. (10[1])An inland minority of these people in Thailand is partly descended from (10[1])Li Mi’s (10[1])army (10[1])and partly (10[1])from (10[2])Panthay (10[1])refugees. (10[1]-5[2])The Peranakan (10[1])are descendants of early immigrants of this (10[1])ethnicity. (-5[1])Members of this (10[1])ethnicity (10[1]-5[1])founded mining “republics” (10[1])on Borneo (10[1]-5[1])such as the Lanfang (10[4]-5[1])Republic. (10[7])After gains by the Gerakan (-5[1])Party sparked a riot against this ethnicity on May 13th, 1969, (-5[2])affirmative action policies were initiated for the bumiputera (10[1])in Malaysia. (10[1])For 10 points, the term huaqiao (“HWAH-chyow”) refers to (10[1])overseas members of what (10[1])nationality (10[2])that uses (10[1])an endonym (10[1])referring to the Tang Dynasty? ■END■ (10[15])

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