And that idea recurs in David Edgar's equally fine Black Tulips, which shows how the Soviet troops who occupied the country from 1979 to 1989 learned the same bitter lesson: that "the Afghan people have never accepted occupation by foreigners with guns".
It went on to note that the legal recognition of sex work as an accepted occupation like any other "enables sex workers to claim benefits, to form or join unions and to access work-related banking, insurance, transport and pension schemes".
Iyad Allawi, speaking on television three days after being chosen prime minister, said his compatriots, "as Iraqis, can never accept occupation," and he vowed to reclaim the country's full sovereignty on June 30.
Mr. Muhammad was reluctant to criticize openly those who attack American forces here, insisting that no one was fighting for Saddam Hussein -- "all he brought us was wars" -- but noting, "It's a kind of religious belief that they should not accept occupation".
They won't accept occupation or humiliation.
Soas says plainly that it "does not accept occupations of its buildings as a legitimate form of protest".
Meanwhile, Napoleon I, through the agreements of Tilsit (July 7 and 9, 1807) and Erfurt (October 12, 1808), abandoned active opposition to Russia and accepted its occupation of the principalities.
One Englishman who worked in the Special Operations Executive, sending agents into France, put it well when he said later that most French people were objective collaborators, in the sense that they accepted the occupation, and also objective résistants, in that they wanted to be rid of it.
With the German invasion, however, rapidly accepted the occupation and became a major force in collaboration in Wallonia.
The resulting Treaty of Brussels not only accepted French occupation of Milan, but also confirmed Venetian claims to the remainder of the Imperial possessions in Lombardy (except for Cremona), effectively ending the war with a return to the status quo of 1508.
On October 28, 1940, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini presented Greece with an ultimatum: Accept occupation by Axis forces or face total invasion.
