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{{Infobox military conflict
|conflict    = Qusayr Emergency
|partof      = [[Cold War (Regnum)|Cold War]]<br>[[Wihda]]
|image       = File:Troops of 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment escort a captured Egyptian soldier on the beach at Port Said.jpg
|image size = 300px
|caption     = Colonial Soldiers escorting [[Saadallah al-Ashari]]
|date        = 3 June 1949 – 8 April 1954<br/>({{Age in years and days|3 June 1949|8 April 1954|sep=and}})
|place       = [[Zubaydah|Qusayr]]
|territory   = 
|result      = al-Hizbu Victory
*Colonial Forces leave Qusayr
*[[Party for National Liberation and Popular Democracy]] win [[1955 Qusayri Elections|1955 Elections]]
*Begining of the [[Wihda]]
|combatant1  = {{flagicon image|Flag of Aden (1937–1963).svg}} [[Crown Colony of Qusayr]]

|combatant2  = {{flagicon image|Zubaydah Flag.png}} [[Party for National Liberation and Popular Democracy]]<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (1918-1927).svg}} [[Fedayeen al-Shaeb]]<br>{{flagicon image|Om 1958.gif}} [[Qusayri Democratic Union]]<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of Afghanistan (1880–1901).svg}} [[Nahjiyyah|Talibani Militias]]
{{Collapsible list
|title=Supported by:
| {{flag|Sarvatia}}<br>{{flag|Federal Union of Arcadia}}
}}
|combatant3  = 
|commander1  = {{flagicon image|Flag of Aden (1937–1963).svg}} Gov. [[William Henry Phayre]]<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of Aden (1937–1963).svg}} Gen. [[Andrew McAuley]]<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of Aden (1937–1963).svg}} Lt Gen. [[David Androuse]]<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of Aden (1937–1963).svg}}[[James Mulryan]]<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of Aden (1937–1963).svg}}[[Robert de Havilland]]

|commander2  = {{flagicon image|Zubaydah Flag.png}} [[ Hidayatullah Bettayeb]]<br>{{flagicon image|Zubaydah Flag.png}} [[Riyadh al-Alusi]]<br>{{flagicon image|Zubaydah Flag.png}} [[Hussayn al-Baqir ibn Ka'b Naqbiyli ]]<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (1918-1927).svg}} [[Amr ibn Hassan]]<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (1918-1927).svg}} [[Qahtan al-Amuli]]{{KIA}}<br>{{flagicon image|Om 1958.gif}} [[Abdul Majid al-Dimashqi]]<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of Afghanistan (1880–1901).svg}} [[Sayfullah al-Khafaji]]<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of Afghanistan (1880–1901).svg}} [[Zuhayr ibn Ka'b al-Nabhani]]{{KIA}}
|commander3  = 
|strength1   = 30,000
|strength2   = Unknown
|strength3   = 
|casualties1 = 1,293 Killed<br>4,293 Wounded
|casualties2 = 6,277 Killed<br> ~16,000 wounded
|casualties3 = ~9,000 Civilian Casualties
}}

The '''Qusayri Emergency''', also known as the '''Revolution of Dignity''' (ثورة الكرامة), or the '''Anti-Colonial Struggle''' (النضال ضد الاستعمار), was an armed rebelion in the [[Crown Colony of Qusayr]] by {{wp|Arab People|Khatti}} locals and the !British Colonial State in Qusayr.

The conflict is traditionally consitered to have started when members of the [[3rd Royal Parachute Brigade]] executed 18 year old [[Saadallah al-Ashari]] while quelling a riot in the [[Khatti Quarter]]. His killing was photographed by [[Edward Fidaki]] and the image of his death led to the [[Qusayri General Strike]]. A {{wp|State of Emergency}} was declared by Governor [[William Henry Phayre]] in 1949. The conflict led to the draw down and eventual end of !British rule in the area and the Proclomation of the [[Democratic People's Republic of Qusayr]], which now makes up part of [[Zubaydah]]. 

==Background==
Qusayr was founded as a colony by the !British initially as a naval staging point for forces operating in the [[Lakhimadian Gulf]]. Qusayr would eventually grow to become a major trade colony which facilitated shipping between [[Erisia]], [[Boutara]], and [[Mauria|Southern Mauria]]. The port of [[Qabr Thaqafi|Khorisa]] became the center of economic life in the colony and hosted a sizable [[Erisia|Erisian]] population of 167,000, or roughly 14% of the colonies population. The colony became a significant military outpost during the [[Great Wars (Regnum)|Great Wars]] and became host to the Gulf Flotila, and a staging area for the larger Viridian Fleet. Khatti people occupied a lower social level in the colony and were typically of the {{wp|Working Class}}. At the start of the 20th century, Khattis were allowed access to higher education, and assimilated khatti were allowed to occupy bureaucratic roles. This shift in privlidge to led to the formation of an {{wp|urban}} {{wp|intelligentsia}} which found itself both in opposition to colonial rule, but also instisicly linked to the privlidges that it offered in terms of {{wp|education}}, and {{wp|social mobility}}. Native Khatti would be allowed to become {{wp|junior officers}} within the {{wp|Askari|Junud}}. 

Qusayrs economic fortunes started to come undone as the !British Empire started to fracture. {{wp|Arab Nationalism|Khatti Nationalism}}, [[Nahjiyyah|Nahyanism]], and {{wp|Communism}} were factors which erroded at the states grip on power. The [[Qusayri Workers Party]], led by !Oxford educated {{wp|Bureaucrat|Mu'ajhizat}} [[Hidayatullah Bettayeb]] was growing in membership and was a key organizer in post-war labour agitation. This growing nationalist and anti-colonial movement instigated the start of a limited {{wp|apartheid}} in the colony in an attempt to break up resistence to the colonial state.