First Chimuregga

First Chimuregga
Clockwise from top left: Ziromnian settlers with artillery Indigenous collaborators on patrol Settlers guarding a train from ambushes MN Monitor warship, near Bochō Riot in central Bochō, 1917 Bombed out trading quarters in Bochō
Date 17 April 1908 – 20 October 1921 (13 years, 6 months and 3 days) Location Mathral Result Status quo antebellum
Belligerents
Dominion of Mathral	Mathrali Liberation Army National Liberation Front
Commanders and leaders
TBA	TBA
Military dead: Over 25,800 Civilian dead: Over 12,300 Total dead: Over 38,000

The First Chimuregga was a 13-year long conflict between Ziromnian settlers and indigenous Mathrali citizens. It took place during the period that Mathral was granted dominionship, or limited colonial self-rule, by Ziromnia. During this time, the settler population established a wide variety of laws that essentially segregated the nation and granted the indigenous peoples a second-class citizenship. Acts of exclusion, the bulldozing of properties owned by indigenous peoples in the cities, disappearances, and violent police crackdowns were common, and spurred the begin of the conflict with the creation of the communist-aligned Mathrali Liberation Army (MLA) in March of 1908.

By April of 1908, the MLA had declared an all-out war against the Dominion of Mathral, and waged guerrilla warfare in the rural regions, often through local nomadic tactics, and urban guerrilla warfare and bombing campaigns.

Around 1910, the anti-communist and nationalist "National Liberation Front" (NLF) was also founded, and took up arms against the dominionship almost immediately. This group would also occasionally clash with the MLA until 1915, when both groups met and agreed to cease hostilities against the dominion of Mathral.

The war saw a disproportionate number of indigenous civilians killed, while the majority of military deaths were indigenous peoples taking part in collaborationist formations and guerrilla formations.

The war ultimately ended with the 1921 Bochō Peace Conference, where all parties ceased hostilities and the country was granted independence under a democratic rule. However, many Ziromnian settlers took this as a betrayal from the homeland, and during the transition to a free democratic state, Ziromnian settlers launched a coup on the 11th of May, 1922, re-establishing settler rule and relegating all indigenous peoples back to a second-class citizenship, when then started the Second Chimuregga.