Казахский предводитель Калибек, один из начальников отряда беженцев:
Qali Beg, kazakh leader from around Lake Barkol, was ally of Osman Bator. He had not decided not to stay for independance conference Osman had called. Instead, he made his way across the Tarim basin during the cool of the winter to Timurlik. He planed to band together with kazakhs at Timurlik, or if that failed, to retreat through Tibet to India. ................................................................................
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...............................................Qali Beg rode a fine white stallion and was dressed in an astounding full-length coat of snow leapord fur............................His high cheekbones and slanted eyes showed the Mongol blood in his ancestral past. ................................................................................
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CIA Agent Douglas Mackiernan was trying organize nomads in Xinjiang against communist chinese army. But Kazak raiders from Timurlik swept into nomadic Mongol and Tibetan peaceful camps, killing the owners and galloped out again and again with hundreds of head of livestock. There was triumphant return for kazakhs from raids. But young kazakh men after all, undermined any unity among nomads in the face of the Chinese invasion.