Hanaki War

Hanaki War
Pulatec and Zacapine forces engaged outside Mtsanga, 1928.
Date 1927–1929 Location Malaio Karaihe Sea Ozeros Sea Result Mzanzi defeat Siva'Uia Peninsula remains under Pulaui control Pulatec north liberated; rebel dikgosi defeated Overthrow of the Mzanzi monarchy
Belligerents
1927: Zanzali Pulau Keramat Pulatec rebel dikgosi Anachak Kang 1928–1929: Zanzali Pulatec rebel dikgosi Anachak Kang	1927: Pulacan Onekawa-Nukanoa Zacapican 1928–1929: Pulacan Onekawa-Nukanoa Pulau Keramat Zacapican
Commanders and leaders
Zanzali monarch(?) Zanzali military commander Seretse IV Tshekedi PK overall leader PK military commander	Dumelang Tsogwane P.P. Molebatsi ZC military commander Air wing commander † PK overall leader PK military commander ON overall leader ON military commander

The Hanaki War was a continent-spanning conflict in Malaio. Waged between 1927 and 1929, the three-year long conflict saw the forces of a resurgent and irredentist Zanzali pitted against much of the rest of the Malaioan region. Their efforts to unite the coastline under ShiMzanzi rule were ultimately confounded.

The war saw several advances in technology, including in the fields of automatic firearms and aerial attack doctrine. Politically, the war saw the end of the monarchy of Zanzali and a total rearrangement of the balance of power in the Malaio-Ozeros region. The political legitimacy of the Pulatec Union State was confirmed by the defeat of rebel forces. The war reaffirmed the Nukanoa's control of Onekawa-Nukanoa following their own devastating civil war in the years immediately before.

Prelude

Onekawa-Nukanoa Civil War

Main article: Onekawa-Nukanoa Civil War

Outbreak of war

Open hostilities first broke out in April of 1927. Prior to this point, the MaZanzi government had been engaging in a campaign of subterfuge in western Onekawa. Agents from Zanzali were involved both in arming sympathetic Komontu populations with arms and in inciting Onekawan locals into ethnic violence against the Komontu. MaZanzi military units were even involved in false flag attacks on Komontu groups. The aim of the MaZanzi government was to create a credible narrative that the weakened post-civil-war Nukanoa government was incapable of protecting minority groups in the region. During one such incident, the Pūmāhumākū Incident of March 25th, 1927, one such false flag attack was repulsed by the chance intervention of a nearby Onekawan military unit. Following this, the Onekawa-Nukanor government issued an ultimatum to Zanzali, demanding the cessation of all subterfuge and espionage activities in the region. The government of Zanzali responded with a counter-ultimatum that either a plebiscite on the region’s entry into Zanzali be held or that Zanzali’s military would enter the region to enforce the security of minority groups. International intervention, including the Diplomatic Mission, failed to resolve the crisis. On April 14th, with no answer being provided to either ultimatum by either nation, the MaZanzi military crossed the Hanaki River in force and began a full-scale invasion of Onekawa-Nukanoa.

Course of the war

Pulacan

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