Pohnei War

Background and the War

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On August 10th 1955, the Federation of Pohnei was proclaimed by Bunarto as the old colonial power was defeated by the multiple liberation militias.
Those decided to install Bunarto as an interim leader given his multiple reconciliatory talks between the independentist factions, his patriotic poetry was an inspiration for many to join the liberation movement.
In the first democratic elections of 1957 he decided to run as an independent.
He brought together the ''Five principles'' proposing them to be the leading national philosophy.
Those principles were :
1. Belief in The One True God
2. A fair-minded and civilized humanity
3. Unity of Oraniteras
4. Democracy from the people led by Wisdom of consultation
5. Social Justice for every people of Pohnei.

The Five principles were a way to bring together communists, religious people, moderates, Oranitera nationalists and liberals and thanks to it Bunarto in the presidential elections won 68,4 % of the vote.
Despite this the parliament was divided in almost equal number of deputies by 8 parties.

As time passed, Bunarto, always more vigorously pushed for an agrarian reform, nationalization of many sectors, protection of the rights of women and minorities which angered the old colonial power which still had stakes in the country, the muslim religious leadership and the bavanese aristocracy while winning at the same time the loyalty of the Communist Party of Pohnei.

The military officers, businessmen and many islamic scholars started forming a deep state which effectively controlled the armed forces.

Behind closed doors in the late 1964 some of the highest ranking military officials discussed about an epuration within the armed forces to subsequently make a coup d'etat undeterred and the negotiation with the bourgeoisie to dramatically cut the production of goods so to make Bunarto highly unpopular in the months preceding the coup attempt.

On January 2nd the secret special forces of the army killed the Bunarto-loyalist General Akeros Barindo and General Musando.

The Chief of Military Staff Gen. Ambanto declared that the communist forces were attempting to take full control of the nation in order to unite it with Kergstan.

President Bunarto was put under arrest while Gen. Ambanto declared himself Interim President and with his most loyal subordinates formed a military junta named the Council for the Restoration of Peace and National Unity.

The armed forces and various paramilitary groups immediately started the killing of communists, ethnic corandians (the majority group in Kergstan) and other allegedly sympathetic minorities.

Most of the Communist Party of Pohnei leadership was killed or arrested while many were able to escape in time to seek asylum in Kergstan.

Kergstan was deeply worried that the coup was in fact organized by the old colonial power, which in fact aided it by sharing intelligence and helping logistically.
Kergstan feared that the colonists would use Pohnei as a base for later attacking Kergstan and thus after a harsh internal debate within the KPK, Kergstan decided to launch an amphibious invasion of Pohnei.

The KPK was already in contact with the PPLF at the time and before the invasion through clandestine operations with fishing boats and helicopters provided them with an arsenal of rockets, grenades, rifles, ammunition and mines.

The PPLF immediately launched an internal insurgency in the north of the country, synchronized with the invasion of Kergstan.

PPLF was able to keep the pohneian army busy and Kergstan was easily able to outnumber the troops stationed in the Senkep regency by the end of march 1965.

Kergstan was able to supply itself through the maritime route but the PPLF was easily falling to the shellings of the pohneian army.

On April 16th the kergstani forces launched the second offensive to the northern coast of Langga in support of the PPLF and a war of attrition happened with heavy attacks by the two sides for three years forcing almost the entirety of the local population to move away.

After three years of inconclusive war on March 15th 1968 the two parts agreed to stop the fighting in exchange of the liberation of political prisoners who were to be taken as refugees by Kergstan, an end to the killings of communist sympathizers and minorities and the acquisition of 8 uninhabitated islets and tolls by Kergstan who resulted in an increase of its territorial waters who were now directly bordering Pohnei.

The Military Junta ruled for an other 10 years, after that a popular uprising due to corruption and poverty brought liberal democracy to the nation.

Aftermath

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Even though there was a power transition in Pohnei the draconian anti-communist laws were kept, communists are still scapegoats for the governments shortcomings and many members and sympathizers of the junta are part of the existing political parties.

On the other side Kergstan strengthened its ''Oranitera Unity'' rhetoric which aims to unite all the Oranitera ethnicities under Kergstan, and most of the pohneian population is part of that ethnic macro-group.

The countries often clash around the islets at the border and recently it resulted in the Ankedo Crisis and the short kergstani invasion of eastern Basi, which was repelled by Pohnei with the aid of the regional power Nacrad.

Kergstan keeps financing and offering weapons to the PPLF and BNLA but despite of this the groups have been greatly weakened in the past decades.

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