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| | date = 7 - 23 June 2023 | | | date = 7 - 10 June 2023 |
| | place = [[Charnea]] | | | place = [[Charnea]] |
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| | causes = {{plainlist| | | | causes = {{plainlist| |
| * Arrest of [[Murab Kubalt|Cobalt Square]] leaders
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| | methods = | | | methods = {{wp|Mutiny}} |
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| * Abolition of the Charnean monarchy | | * Collapse of [[Congress of Progress and Prosperity|AKE]] one-party rule |
| * End of one-party rule
| | * Dissolution of the Charnean monarchy |
| * Establishment of the provisional military government (PMG) | | * Establishment of the Republic |
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| | side1 = Charnean Empire<br>AKE Party<br>Army Loyalists | | | side1 = {{flagicon image|Ninvaflag.png}} Ibiza regime<br>{{flagicon image|CharArmy.png}} Charnean Army |
| | side2 = Veterans Movement<br><br>Free Charnea Society | | | side2 = {{flagicon image|CharArmy.png}} Azut mutineers |
| | leadfigures1 = [[Marus Ibiza ag Haqar]]<br>[[Derim Elwafil]]<br>[[Kazbar Mohmed]] | | | leadfigures1 = |
| | leadfigures2 = [[Khyar Aziouel]]<br>[[Hrakhel Kabte]] | | | leadfigures2 = |
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| | injuries = 3,107 | | | injuries = |
| | fatalities = 487 | | | fatalities = |
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| The '''Muttay''' ({{wp|Tamashek}}: ⵎⵓⵜⵜⴰⵢ, lit. "The Change"), also known as the '''Charnean Revolution''' or simply the '''June days''', was a period of mutiny and unrest within the [[Charnean Army]] which resulted in the collapse of the incumbent [[Congress of Progress and Prosperity|AKE Government]], chief of state [[Marus Ibiza ag Haqar]], and abolition of the Charnean monarchy. The military uprising took place over the course of the month of June in 2023 and was described as a "severe and prolonged lapse in discipline" that saw active duty soldiers together with military retirees number in the tens of thousands mobilize against the Charnean government and the military high command. The mutiny was ultimately successful in toppling the government, creating a powerful vacuum into which stepped a number of notable junior officers and figures of the Veterans Movement in the form of the Provisional Military Government, the precursor of the [[Charnea|Republic of Charnea]]. The uprising was catalyzed by the death of Regent [[Matruf Lamine]] the month prior, which triggered a reshuffling of government ministries and a purge of Lamine loyalists by the incoming ag Haqar regime. | | The '''Muttay''' ({{wp|Tamashek}}: ⵎⵓⵜⵜⴰⵢ, lit. "The Change") was a military uprising which took place in [[Charnea]] in early June of 2023 which resulted in the fall of the civilian government and the end of the Charnean Empire. The uprising took the form of a violent schism within the [[Charnean Army]] instigated by a radical changes with respect to military-civilian affairs and state oversight of the Army. Many of the mutineers were part of military units which had previously been known for their high level of autonomous operation and had garnered reputations for straying from the orders of the Army high command, most notable in the case of the [[Desert Rangers|Desert Ranger Corps]] which formed the nucleus of the mutiny in the Charnean city of [[Azut]]. The uprising itself lasted four days from the 3rd to the 7th of June during which sporadic skirmishes between Charnean Army units were reported all along the the length of Charnea's central [[Xallalbatan]] railroad as well as the zone of permanent military occupation in the far east of the country as fighting took place within and between garrisons and dispersed detachments of the Army. The disintegration of the civilian government and the later resignation of the state's Defense Minister on the 7th of June with the mutineers at the gates of [[Agnannet]] decapitated the chain of military command and brought about an end to the hostilities, narrowly avoiding the onset of a full-scale civil war the likes of which had recently torn apart neighboring [[Fahran]]. Of those in the Army that had fought against the mutineers, a significant portion reintegrated with their former enemies in the reconstituted post-Muttay Charnean Army, while the remainder resigned from military service and were allowed to return to civilian life. A minority of the most hated counter-mutineers, especially the non-Army paramilitary security forces, self-exiled from the country out of fear of reprisals from the victorious mutineers. |
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| The fallout of the Muttay has had immense consequences for Charnea. In the immediate term, the Muttay precipitated what has become known as the Summer of Crisis, the three-pronged disaster of political collapse, disorder, and economic meltdown. The mission of the Provisional Military Government was to curtail the Charnean collapse, an effort which was met with mixed results. The establishment of the Republic was successful in remediating the lack of political leadership following the fall of the national government in the Muttay, while the military crackdowns in most major Charnean cities succeeded in restoring security of the country's most important urban centers. Post-Muttay economic policies failed to restore the national economy to its pre-crisis state, although the rates of GDP contraction and currency inflation were successfully curtailed by mid October. Taken as a whole, the events of the Muttay represent a sudden and unexpected departure from the political legacy of the Charnean Modernists of the 1920s who established the underpinnings of the Charnean state, as well as a severing of the link to the 700 year legacy of the Charnean Empire. Views on the Muttay are extremely mixed within the Charnean population, where celebrations over the fall of the unpopular ag Haqar regime are tempered by the sobering economic reality of the revolution. | | The rapid and unexpected collapse of the [[Congress of Progress and Prosperity|AKE]] party's rule in the face of the Muttay left a major institutional vacuum at the head of the Charnean government which the mutineers struggled to fill. In contrast to a conventional military coup, the successful mutiny lacked a clear leader around which to establish a stable military dictatorship. Most of the mutineers were part of disparate and unrelated parts of the Army each with no strong ties to the officers of the other, having been unified more out of opposition to the regime of Premier Marus Ibiza and his high command rather than by loyalty to any central leadership. Lacking the direct loyalty of most of the Army, the newly established junta in Agnannet was only able to reconstitute the fractured military and establish control over the country by gaining the conditional support of the rank and file soldiers and junior officers of the Army with promises of political rights under the new regime. Over the next several months, the Provisional Military Government (PMG) would become increasingly dependent on the support of these groups to survive, support predicated on self determination and the investment of political power outside of any central clique in Agnannet. This dynamic would eventually transition into the limited democracy of the modern Charnean Republic as the new state continued to gain the support of key demographics through the provision of political rights and other benefits earned through various forms of national service. |
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| ==Background==
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| [[File:Slums_in_Accra.jpg|220px|thumb|left|The post-war economy pushed many formerly middle-class Charneans into slums on the outskirts of cities.]]
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| The end of the [[Ninvite War]] in 1986 marked the beginning of a new era in the modern history of Charnea. The new post-war paradigm across Charnea was the final nail in the coffin of the midcentury halcyon days of meteoric growth and optimism for the future of the desert nation. The war was to many a shattering revelation of Charnean weakness, tempered only by the eventual victory of the Charnean forces after decades of attrition. Many in the military considered the Ninvite War a pyrrhic victory for the Army, one which should never be repeated, although such views were never permitted within the circles of the high command. Economic stagnation combined with the renewed military pressure in the east from the brief but demoralizing [[September War]] in 2004 saw the beginnings of opposition against the status quo from within the government itself. These reformers voiced the concerns that the military establishment could not, proposing a change in course for the nation's domestic policy - including a move away from the exploitative extraction economy which was thought to contribute to eastern unrest. The conflict within the state came to a head in 2013 with the [[Seven Day Coup]], in which a fringe faction of the Madounist status quo resorted to extra-legal measures and political violence to eliminate the reformist threat to the established power, only to fail in securing legitimacy for their coup and falling swiftly to a military counter-coup led by Martuf Lamine.
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| The regency under Lamine laid the groundwork for the events of the Muttay. While the Regent secured his power through a puppet child-monarch in the form of Queen [[Amina N'Okha]], he failed to present a viable political alternative to the Madounists and in so doing allowed the status quo party to re-consolidate its power around [[Marus Ibiza ag Haqar]]. Marus Ibiza was the original political heir of [[Pazir Madoun]] and the inheritor of his post-war legacy. He sought above all to centralize power around himself and to establish the same system of political clients and subordinates that Madoun had held during his three decade Premiership. In order to advance this aim, Marus Ibiza spent the late 2010s stacking the deck in his favor, quietly placing loyalists in the military high command and at the top of civilian institutions. Regent Lamine counter-balanced this by encouraging lower military officers, emboldened by the Charnean Army's deeply entrenched culture of officer autonomy, the most organized being the [[Murab Kubalt|Cobalt Square]]. When Martuf Lamine died in May of 2023, however, this delicate balance was destroyed and Marus Ibiza quickly moved to consolidate his personal power. He saw the military factions Lamine had encouraged as a vestige of the Regency and a direct obstacle to the centralization of power under himself. However, his aims to purge disobedient junior officers flew in the face of the Army's culture and inadvertently broadened the opposition to him and his high command loyalists within the military, a failure likely due to Marus Ibiza's civilian background as a career politician.
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| ==June days==
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| On the 7th of June the office of Premier Marus Ibiza issued a comprehensive order to the military to demote or remove from service a laundry list of officers who had spoken out against the government or the ruling party in the past. The order especially targeted the leaders and members of the Cobalt Square faction, mandating the removal Colonel [[Khyar Aziouel]] from the command of the [[Desert Rangers|Ranger Corps]] and discharging many of his associates outright. This is used as the start date of the Muttay uprising, as military disobedience began on this first day with widespread refusals by the lower officers to step down or otherwise carry out the discharge of those under their command. A split within the Army formed on the 7th, one which would be exacerbated by both the Cobalt Square and the high command as the latter began to mobilize loyal units in an attempt to strongarm the disobedient ones back into compliance while the former used this to agitate uncommitted mid-level leaders against the high command. This power struggle within the military would continue until further escalation on the 17th, with a raid on known Cobalt Square members in [[Azut]] which killed [[Chekkadh Amanrassa]] and saw [[Amastan Elmoctar]] and [[Hrakhel Kabte]] taken to a military prison. Khyar Aziouel, former head of the Rangers, evaded capture and led rogue Ranger units in retaliatory actions against forces loyal to the high command, including the June 21st attempted assassination of Marus Ibiza himself using a mortar carrier to attack a train the Premier was in, which was later connected to a Ranger unit.
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| [[File:36th Anniversary of the US military failure in Tabas (16).jpg|220px|thumb|right|Wreckage of the Air Corps transport shot down over Awakar. Marus Ibiza and 15 other high ranking passengers were killed in the incident.]]
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| Within just two weeks, the situation had escalated to the brink of civil war without the public being made aware. There was no media coverage or official statements regarding the rapid escalation, which made what would come at the end of June all the more shocking to the public. The failed assassination attempt on Marus Ibiza had only been the precursor to what was internally known as Operation Autumn, a move by the Cobalt Square and their allies to move on Agnannet itself and remove their opponents from power directly. Operation Autumn consisted of an initial wave of attacks on various targets in Agnannet carried out by Ranger special operations units loyal to Aziouel in the early hours of the morning of the 23rd, including the headquarters of the [[SET]] and the AKE Party in the city. These attacks were diversionary, intended to provoke the high command to deploy its loyalist forces into the city. This cleared the way for the second phase, which saw rebel officers in league with Aziouel advance on the ground with their own vehicles as well as an aerial insertion launched from Azut airport late the night of the 22nd jointly converge on key positions in Agnannet and wider Achra region while the government's forces were dispersed. By the end of the day, the mutineer forces had secured Tamat N'Ifri international airport and the smaller Ageldan airport inside the capital, parts of the Palace district and the three broadcasting towers which serve the greater Achra region.
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| Operation Autumn was a shock to the public and led to an almost immediate breakdown. Many officials as well as members of the public feared that Autumn signaled the beginning of a civil war, causing panic to set in. Marus Ibiza was not in the city at the time and disappeared from the public eye after the fall of Agnannet to Aziouel's mutiny. It would be revealed more than a month later that he was killed alongside several high ranking AKE and ICA high command officers by one of the ICA's own air defense systems when an Air Corps transport was shot down over the Erg Awakar while flying north to Tyreseia. Who gave the order or why that battery targeted a Charnean aircraft was targeted in such a manner was never revealed. Every member of Marus Ibiza's cabinet resigned on the 24th, the day after the fall of the capital, dissolving the government. Hundreds of members of the Agraw Imgharan, the AKE Party, and a number of military officials promptly fled the capital, while many attempted to escape the country with many meeting success thanks to the general disarray of state security forces and border patrols. Operation Autumn resulted in the onset of immediate military chaos, with forces stationed all over Charnea pulling back to the core regions or else engaging in unannounced maneuvers for various purposes, many anticipating the outbreak of a civil war. Instead, the forces that had remained loyal to the high command reported in to Agnannet and the mutineers one by one, spurred on by the collapse of the government and disappearance of many of the high command as they attempted to flee. Civil war was narrowly avoided and a new junta established on the 27th of June to re-establish order in the military and head an emergency government.
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| The Muttay |
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| Date | 7 - 10 June 2023 |
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| Methods | Mutiny |
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- Dissolution of the Charnean monarchy
- Establishment of the Republic
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The Muttay (Tamashek: ⵎⵓⵜⵜⴰⵢ, lit. "The Change") was a military uprising which took place in Charnea in early June of 2023 which resulted in the fall of the civilian government and the end of the Charnean Empire. The uprising took the form of a violent schism within the Charnean Army instigated by a radical changes with respect to military-civilian affairs and state oversight of the Army. Many of the mutineers were part of military units which had previously been known for their high level of autonomous operation and had garnered reputations for straying from the orders of the Army high command, most notable in the case of the Desert Ranger Corps which formed the nucleus of the mutiny in the Charnean city of Azut. The uprising itself lasted four days from the 3rd to the 7th of June during which sporadic skirmishes between Charnean Army units were reported all along the the length of Charnea's central Xallalbatan railroad as well as the zone of permanent military occupation in the far east of the country as fighting took place within and between garrisons and dispersed detachments of the Army. The disintegration of the civilian government and the later resignation of the state's Defense Minister on the 7th of June with the mutineers at the gates of Agnannet decapitated the chain of military command and brought about an end to the hostilities, narrowly avoiding the onset of a full-scale civil war the likes of which had recently torn apart neighboring Fahran. Of those in the Army that had fought against the mutineers, a significant portion reintegrated with their former enemies in the reconstituted post-Muttay Charnean Army, while the remainder resigned from military service and were allowed to return to civilian life. A minority of the most hated counter-mutineers, especially the non-Army paramilitary security forces, self-exiled from the country out of fear of reprisals from the victorious mutineers.
The rapid and unexpected collapse of the AKE party's rule in the face of the Muttay left a major institutional vacuum at the head of the Charnean government which the mutineers struggled to fill. In contrast to a conventional military coup, the successful mutiny lacked a clear leader around which to establish a stable military dictatorship. Most of the mutineers were part of disparate and unrelated parts of the Army each with no strong ties to the officers of the other, having been unified more out of opposition to the regime of Premier Marus Ibiza and his high command rather than by loyalty to any central leadership. Lacking the direct loyalty of most of the Army, the newly established junta in Agnannet was only able to reconstitute the fractured military and establish control over the country by gaining the conditional support of the rank and file soldiers and junior officers of the Army with promises of political rights under the new regime. Over the next several months, the Provisional Military Government (PMG) would become increasingly dependent on the support of these groups to survive, support predicated on self determination and the investment of political power outside of any central clique in Agnannet. This dynamic would eventually transition into the limited democracy of the modern Charnean Republic as the new state continued to gain the support of key demographics through the provision of political rights and other benefits earned through various forms of national service.
