User:Pixy/Kra Insurgency (Sandbox)
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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.
Background
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 and influence in the Jin's economy further intensified the Kra conflict when the bidding and approval process of the Daoan concession areas (post 2nd Cross-Strait War) allowed for the Kra holy mountain of Baixiangshan (lit. White Elephant Mountain) to be exploited and transformed into a large-scale commercial open pit mine. 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 PMCs to fight against the Kra insurgents.