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runs away in panic from the body of the dead officer. Oates receives the plaudits of the English establishment for his enterprise but, when Cromer decides to arrest the villagers for assault on the officers, Violet, to Oates’ distress, tells him that he is on the wrong side. It is, she tells him, the villagers and not the British officers that deserve his support. Oates is chastened and mortified by this rejection.
Meanwhile, Ahmed’s brother, Fahmy tries to enlist the support of Mustafa Kamel in defending the villagers but issues are becoming complicated. Kamel realises that the unwarranted punishment of the villagers will create martyrs for the cause and decides to remain on the sidelines. Yasin is arrested as the ringleader of the assault on the British
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officers and Ahmed, seeking to defend his father, is knocked down and killed.
At the British-controlled trial of the villagers, Oates shows great moral courage in telling the true story of events in the witness box and recovers Violet’s affections. The Egyptian lawyer, Suleiman, puts up a brave and spirited defence of the villagers and the Egyptian members of the tribunal,
Boutros Ghali (the Justice Minister and later to be Prime Minister of Egypt) and Fathi Bey Zaghlul seek to mitigate the harshness of the Court’s sentences but to no avail. Despite the best efforts of Ghali, Zaghlul, Violet, Oates and Blunt, who recruits the assistance of George Bernard Shaw in London, Yasin is sentenced to be hanged with two other villagers and eleven more are sentenced to
be flogged publicly in Denshwai.
The outcome of the trial is great distress to all those seeking justice for the villagers.
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