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Kra Insurgency
Part of Kra Conflict
Date 21 July 2013 - Present (11 years, 3 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) Location Da Huang Status Ongoing Start of Kra genocide Start of Kra refugee crisis Intensified persecution of the Kra people Deployment of the Everlasting Army Ground Forces Deployment of Daoan security contractors
Belligerents
Da Huang Non State Actors Eclipse Corps Jin Nationalists	Kra Liberation Front
Commanders and leaders
Yingjie Emperor Dajiang Cao Fang TBD TBD	TBD TBD TBD
Units involved
Jin Forces TBD Army Unit Eclipse Forces 1st Security Group 3rd Security Group 10th Air Wing Jin Nationalists Unorganized vigilante groups	Kra Rebel Cells Group X Group X Group X
Strength
- TBD - TBD security contractors	- TBD
Casualties and losses
Jin Casualties TBD+ Killed TBD+ Wounded TBD+ Died of wounds Total: TBD casualties Daoan Casualties TBD+ Killed TBD+ Wounded TBD+ Died of wounds Total: TBD casualties	Kra Casualties TBD+ Killed TBD+ Wounded TBD+ Died of wounds Total: TBD casualties

The Kra Insurgency is an ongoing low intensity armed rebellion in the northern province of Da Huang on the Ochran mainland. It is fought primarily between the state of Da Huang against the Kra Liberation Front, a network of loosely aligned Kra insurgent groups whose ultimate goal is the independence of the Kra dominated northern provinces of Da Huang. Various non-state actors are also involved in the conflict, though the motive for their involvement varies from one group to another. Examples include the Daoan private military company Eclipse Corps as well as various vigilante groups organized by Jin Nationalists. The insurgency is often considered as a continuation if not escalation of the Kra Conflict, an umbrella term used to describe various Kra rebellions as well as the the historical ethno-racial tensions between the Jin and Kra dating back all the way to the 14th century. Kra seperatist and rebel groups have staged multiple rebellions with mixed results though all has ultimately ended in continued Jin rule over the Kra. Kra refugees who have managed to escape the fighting to other countries often stage protests in front of Jin embassies against the actions its armed forces, accusing them of gross human rights violations through extrajudicial killings, summary executions and gang rapes. Non-governmental organizations and international observers have accused the Jin's armed forces and vigilante groups for conducting ethnic cleansing and genocidal campaigns against the Kra population and it has been estimated that between XXX,XXX and XXX,XXX native Kra had been killed by Jin security, military forces and vigilante groups. The involvement of Daoan private security contractors in the conflict has further complicated matters and was largely caused by the perceived failure of Jin government forces to provide adequate security guarantees to safeguard the assets owned and operated by Daoan companies on the Jin mainland.The insurgency has had far reaching political, social and economic impacts for both Da Huang and Ochran-Malaio region. The most profound being the Kra refugee crisis where large numbers of Kra civilians have attempted to flee Da Huang in search for a safe haven.

Background

Kra-Jin Relations

It is widely attributed that the Kra people are treated as such in Da Huang because the Jin view the Kra as "foreign barbarians who are illegally squatting in their lands". This view is also primarily attributed to the ancestral grudge of the Jin against the Two Conquest Dynasties that had controlled Da Huang in the past, in which the Kra minority ruled as the Kra—Na dynasty from 1358 to 1674. So evident was the despise of the Kra, the Jin character for the Kra people was written with the graphic pejorative Zhuàng, 獞 (or tóng, referring to a variety of wild dogs). In 1902, after the Wucheng Heavenly Rebellion, the logograph 獞 was officially replaced with a different graphic pejorative, 僮 (Zhuàng or tóng, meaning "child; boy servant"), with the "human radical" and has been in used till this day. The Kra people have consistently faced human rights abuses by the Jin ever since the establishment of the Republic of Jin. The Jin government has refused to acknowledge the Kra as Da Huang citizens (despite the Kra living in Jinae proper since the late 1300s). Most recently, the Kra people have been denied Jin citizenship since the enactment of the 1991 constitution. The Jin government has many times (since the fall of the Kra—Na dynasty) forcibly tried to relocate the Kra into undesirable lands and bring in non-Kras to replace them—a policy which has resulted in the forceful relocation of at least 800,000 Kras from central Jinae to the northeastern less hospitable mountain ranges. This act has, of course, resulted in many Kra rebellions (known as the Kra conflict) that the Jin has put down repeatedly, which resulted in harsher methods of which the Jin employed to relocate the Kra forcefully. Today, the vast majority of the Kra live in the northeastern impoverished provinces, far away from the bustling cities on the coast. The Kra, already profoundly hated by the Jin population, were pushed into further isolation when the Jin people, already residing in the northeastern provinces, further discriminated against them, viewing them as thieves, vagrants, and beggars.

All this came to a boiling point on 21 July 2013, a series of riots in various cities throughout the northeastern provinces. Tensions between the native Jin and Kra ethnic groups flared into violent clashes in Beixuefeng and continued until the 23, killing at least 40 and wounding 102 people. The violence started after a Jin gold shop owner, his wife, and two Jin employees assaulted a Kra customer and her husband in an argument over a golden hairpin. A large Kra mob formed and began to destroy the shop, looting the gold. The heavily outnumbered police reported told the mob to disperse after they had destroyed the shop, but the mob did not stop there. In the evening, a local Jin monk, not involved in the incident, was dragged from the local temple, doused in petrol, and burnt alive by six Kra youths at a nearby park. News of the killing of the monk spread like wildfire. It caused the relatively contained (in a manner of speaking) situation to explode, significantly increasing intensification and violence, leading to an armed uprising by the Kra people. The armed uprising by the Kra did not go unchecked by the Jin government, more specifically, the Everlasting Army Ground Forces (EAGF). In response to the conflict and seeking to pacify the rebellion as quickly as possible, the northern garrisons, under the order of Dajiang Cao Fang (and against the demands of the central government), conducted what is known as the Kra genocide, a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of all Kra people living in the northeastern provinces. These killings have also inspired radical Jin nationalists to form their own vigilante groups to hunt innocent Kra people and have resulted in wide-scale human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings; summary executions; gang rapes; and arson of Kra villages, businesses, and schools; and infanticides. The crisis forced over a million Kra to flee to other countries. The actions of the EAGF have been referred to as "ethnic cleansing" and have been harshly condemned by the central government, but lacking complete control over the military's ground forces; the central government cannot do much to stop it.

Daoan involvement

Main article: Daobac-Huang dynasty relations

Daoan involvement and influence in the Jin's economy further intensified the Kra conflict when the mining and economic rights of the Kra holy mountain of Baixiangshan (lit. White Elephant Mountain) were given to Daobac as part of a peace treaty in the aftermath of the Second Cross-Strait War, although negotiations and mining operations did not begin until the late 20th century. Exploration of the mountain began in 1993 and formal negotiations to exploit and transform the mountains into a large-scale commercial open pit mine began in 1995. The concession area's entire bidding and approval process was rife with allegations of corruption and political bribery. While small-scale mining operations by Kra companies had begun in the 1800s, the desecration and sacrilege act of turning the important socio-cultural mountain into an environmentally degraded area has led to frequent skirmishes between the Kra insurgents and the employed workers (of which the discriminated Kra were not allowed to work in) of the Daoan companies. In response to the skirmishers and the perceived lack and distrust of the Jin government forces' protection (despite the Vinhhang Group paying significant annual dividends to the Jin government for security), the Daon companies brought their own private security contractors to defend its assets and, allegedly, actively attack the Kra insurgents.

Factions

Da Huang

Main article: Huang dynasty

Eclipse Corps

COP "Trinity" located in Baixiangshan Mine.

Main article: Eclipse Corps

Eclipse Corps is a private military company that provides security services to Vinh Gang Group, a mining & energy conglomorate that owns and operates the Baixiangshan Coal Mine in Da Huang since 1999 though Eclipse security personnel were not contracted until 2001. Both entities are part of Tran International, a Daoan megacorporation. With a total concession area of 27,850 hectares Baixiangshan is often considered as one of the largest open pit coal mines in the northern hemisphere, which consequently requires Vinh Hang to protect its investment over a large area. Initial deployment of Eclipse Corps personnel were limited to unarmed security personnel who were trained primarily to deal with internal security, with the task of providing an armed response force delegated to the Jin's armed forces as part of an agreement between Vinh Hang and the Jin government. In 2012 there were only 150 unarmed security personnel stationed in Baixianshang, this number swelled to 900 by the end of 2013 when the insurgency began. Kra rebels regularly attacked both the mine itself and coal transports which required EAGF troops to provide additional security. However as the insurgency dragged on, more and more EAGF personnel were redeployed else where to partake in the pacification of the Kra rebels which prompted Vinh Hang to request additional manpower from Eclipse to supplement their shortage. The absence of standing EAGF quick reaction force also meant that the contractors Eclipse deployed became increasingly more well equipped and armed, transitioning from non-combat to full combat gears. Eclipse took advantage of its position as a subsidiary of the larger Tran International ecosystem, a megacorporation who also tapped into the defense industry. Combined with the absence of regulations that governed private security entities, this gave Eclipse near unlimited access to military-grade hardware & software. This included automatic rifles, modern body armor, armored personnel & fighting vehicles as well as weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles. Eclipse troops also have access to the Net Battle system, a sophiticated integrated information network that helps provide information for both command, support and combat elements of Eclipse Corps. As of 2023, there is approximately X,XXX Eclipse security contractors deployed in Da Huang comprised of two Security Groups (equivalent to army batallions) and one Air Wing (equivalent to an air force flight). Eclipse have recorded a total of XX instances of engagements with Kra rebel groups, most of which were centered around the defense of Baixiangshan and Vinh Hang coal transports. It has been alleged however that the Office of National Intelligence (ONI), Daobac's intelligence agency, has used Eclipse to conduct clandestine activities in Da Huang as well. Eclipse Corps personnel in the Baixiangshan mine are stationed in Forward Operating Base "Hell's Gate", with many other combat outposts (COP) scattered throughout Vinh Hang's concession area that guard strategic points.