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{{Infobox military conflict
| conflict    = Vilcasuamanian Bush War
| partof      = the [[Phoney War]]
| image       = [[File:UH-1D Operation MacArthur Vietnam 1967.jpg|350px]]
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| date        =  4 July 1969 - 12 December 1991<br>({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=07|day1=04|year1=1969|month2=12|day2=12|year2=1991}})
| place       =  [[Vilcasuamanas]]
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| result      = Government victory<br />[[New Haven Peace Accords]]
*Legalization of the [[Cooperativist Party of Vilcasuamanas|Cooperativist Party]]
*Liberalization and move towards democracy in Vilcasuamanas
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| combatant1  = {{flagicon|Vilcasuamanas}} [[Vilcasuamanas|Vilcasuamanian government]]<br>{{flagicon image|JDF NTemp.png}} [[Joint Defense Force|JDF]]
*{{flagicon image|FedFlag.jpg}} [[Federation of Asteria]]
*{{flag|Marirana}}<br>
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| combatant2  =  {{flagicon image|Belgica 1789.png}} [[Workers and Peasants' Solidarity Front|DVSF]] <small>(until 1976)</small>
*{{flagicon image|CAL.gif}} [[Ciapist Army of Liberation|CAL]]
*{{flagicon image|Flag of the Shining Path.svg}} [[Cooperativist Party of Vilcasuamanas|Cooperativist Party]] <small>(until 1976)</small>
*{{flagicon image|Flag of the EZLN (vertically divided).svg}} [[Indigenous Peoples Self Defense Forces|VTSP]] <small>(until 1981)</small>
*{{flagicon image|RDA.png}} [[Revolutionary Democratic Army|RDA]] <small>(until 1976)</small>
{{flagicon image|Bandeira da FNLA.svg}} [[July 27th Movement|L-27]] <small>(until 1975)</small><br>
{{flagicon image|Reconstrucción Comunista RC flag (RC) alternative.svg}} [[Eisenkuste]] <small>(material support)</small>
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| commander1  = {{flagicon|Vilcasuamanas}} {{wpl|Augusto Pinochet|Mauricijus Sprogys}}<br>{{flagicon|Vilcasuamanas}} [[Kazys Drusutis]]<br>{{flagicon|Vilcasuamanas}} [[Salemonas Sakatauskas]]<br>{{flagicon|Vilcasuamanas}} [[Adolfas Svirelis]]<br />{{flagicon|Vilcasuamanas}} [[Lauras Lagūnavičius]]<br>{{flagicon|Vilcasuamanas}} [[Vladas Pranskunas]]<br>{{flagicon|Vilcasuamanas}} [[Kristupas Preikavičius]] {{KIA}}<br>{{flagicon image|FedFlag.jpg}} [[William Haley]]<br>{{flagicon image|FedFlag.jpg}} [[Allen Black]]<br>{{flagicon|Marirana}} [[Paolo Vinciguerra]]<br>{{flagicon|Nimear}} [[F.A. Vredeling]]
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{{flagicon image|CAL.gif}} [[Stepas Bisikirskas]]<br />{{flagicon image|CAL.gif}} [[Vytis Bajarunas]] {{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon image|CAL.gif}} [[Saulius Kiuras]] {{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon image|Flag of the Shining Path.svg}} [[Skirgailas Sprindis]]<br />{{flagicon image|Flag of the EZLN (vertically divided).svg}} [[Domas Leita]] {{Executed}}<br />{{flagicon image|Bandeira da FNLA.svg}} [[Jokubas Pakalnis]] {{Surrendered}}<br />{{flagicon image|Bandeira da FNLA.svg}} [[Faustas Kristonaitis]] {{Surrendered}}<br />
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| casualties3 = 70,000–80,000 (total Vilcasuamanian dead); 2,000 disappeared; 550,000 internally displaced
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The '''Vilcasuamanian Bush War''' ({{wpl|Lithuanian language|Ruttish}}: ''Vilkasuamanos Krūmo Karas'') was a conflict between the government of the [[Vilcasuamanas|Republic of Vilcasuamanas]] and various left-wing movements and armed groups. The conflict began in the late 1960s and quickly escalated into a full-scale {{wpl|guerilla war}}, prompting a military intervention by the [[Federation of Asteria|Federation]]. The [[New Haven Peace Accords]] in 1976 demobilized most of the guerilla forces, while forcing the {{wpl|military government}} to concede significant steps towards {{wpl|democratization}}; however, certain factions, such as the [[Ciapist Army of Liberation]] (CAL) would continue the fight until 1991.

The war is seen as a reaction to the repressive policies of {{wpl|military dictator}} {{wpl|Augusto Pinochet|Mauricijus Sprogys}}, who had ruled the country since 1958, but was more generally rooted in the wide social discontent caused by vast {{wpl|corruption}} and {{wpl|income inequality}}. Various suppressed leftist groups would coalesce to form the [[Workers and Peasants' Solidarity Front]] ({{wpl|Lithuanian language|Ruttish}}: ''Darbuotojų ir Valstiečių Solidarumo Frontas'', DVSF), which would declare open warfare on Sprogys' government after a failed coup in 1969; the {{wpl|Urban guerilla|urban}} [[July 27th Movement]] (L-27), while not explicitly socialist, would join in 1971. The expected resistance to Sprogys within the military failed to materialize, and instead the conflict became characterized by {{wpl|unconventional warfare}}, particularly in the {{wpl|Amazon rainforest|Sythian rainforest}} region of the country. Federation involvement, initially in the form of {{wpl|military advisors}}, would escalate dramatically as part of the anti-leftist measures of the [[Phoney War]]; Vilcasuamanas invoked the mutual defense clause of the [[Joint Defense Force]], and by 1972 there were several thousand Federation, [[Marirana]]n, and [[Nimear]]ian troops "in-country". 

The government-aligned forces conducted vast {{wpl|search and destroy}} operations against the rural guerillas; these bloody tactics were controversial in both the Federation and in Vilcasuamanas, as their effectiveness against the insurgents was dubious. From 1974, Federation troops began a {{wpl|Vietnamization|gradual withdrawal}}, straining the Vilcasuamanian armed forces that had relied on Federation support. Fearing the unpopularity of the war among his supporters threatened to undermine his regime, Sprogys made concessions to the L-27 movement, restoring the [[Vilcasuamanas#Government|Seimas]] and releasing hundreds of {{wpl|political prisoners}}. This brought the DVSF to the negotiating table as well, and the [[New Haven Peace Accords]] of 1976 officially ended the conflict, with Sprogys pledging to hold free elections. In 1976, the first general elections were held, with the military relinquishing power and allowing for presidential elections shortly after Sprogys' death in 1978. However, the CAL refused to demobilize and broke with the DVSF following the New Haven Agreement, continuing a {{wpl|low-level conflict|low-level}} {{wpl|asymmetric warfare|asymmetric conflict}} for fifteen years.

Although estimates vary, scholars believe around 75,000 Vilcasuamanians were killed in the course of the war; approximately 6,000 foreign troops were also killed between 1970 and 1976. The war was also notorious for the {{wpl|human rights violations}} committed on both sides; the rebels forcibly recruited {{wpl|child soldier}}s, the government launched indiscriminate {{wpl|strategic bombing}} campaigns, and all combatants regularly executed civilians believed to be collaborating with the enemy. In the initial stage of the conflict, the Vilcasuamanian dictatorship significantly cracked down on civil liberties; Sprogys' government is thought to be responsible for nearly 2,000 {{wpl|forced disappearance}}s during this period. The war precipitated a vast {{wpl|refugee crisis}} as disaffected Vilcasuamanians migrated to [[Nimear]] and [[Satucin]], leading to tensions in both of those nations. However, the return to democracy in Vilcasuamanas can also be credited to the conflict, as both the insurgents and the government's allies pressured the Sprogys government to liberalize and return to traditional {{wpl|party politics}}, initiating the [[Vilcasuamanas|Fourth Republic]].

==Background==
===Sprogys dictatorship===
[[File:Augusto_Pinochet_foto_oficial.jpg|200px|left|thumb|{{wpl|Marshal}} {{wpl|Mauricijus Sprogys}} led the Republic of Vilcasuamanas from 1958]]
===Emergence of leftist groups===

==First phase (1969-1976)==
===Initial attacks===
===Government crackdown and escalation===
[[File:ARVN_in_action_HD-SN-99-02062.JPEG|200px|right|thumb|Vilcasuamanian forces in combat against a VTSP stronghold]]
===JDF intervention===
===Velykų Offensive===
===Federation withdrawal===

==New Haven Peace Accords==
===Split of the DVSF===

==Second phase (1976-1991)==
===CAL steps up campaign===
[[File:Vietcong.jpg|200px|left|thumb|CAL guerillas lie dead in the town of Šv. Steponas, Juodopė]]
===Failed negotiations===
===Rutuliukas massacre===
===Failed offensive of 1986===
===Ceasefire===

==War crimes==
===Government and JDF war crimes===
===Insurgent war crimes===
===Truth Commission on Vilcasuamanas===

==Aftermath==
===Democratization of Vilcasuamanas===
===Effects on Asteria Inferior===
===Cost of the war===