ocr: stained the far corners oft the empire with the blood of: suspect cousins and their collaborators. Some were murdered in darkly ingenious ways; two officials choked as their mouths were: stuffed with stones, and Guyuk's widow was sewn in a carpet and drowned. Mongke consolidated his grip on power by cloaking himselfi in Genghis Khan' s mantle, proclaiming, "I1 follow the laws of my ancestors. " This was certain to: appeali in Karakorum, where people had begun to worship idols of Genghis. He is still revered. Last spring before Mongolia's parliamentary clec- tions, the Democratic Union Coalitio ...
