Diash Mountain War
| Diash Mountain War | |||||||||
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 Alaoyian government troops patrol a mountainside during the New Year's Offensive | |||||||||
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 Alaoyi |
 Army of the Irreverent |
 Ndị Ogbugbu |
 Free Dialand Movement | ||||||
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President Minister of Defense General One General Two [[|23px|border]] Dialand Chair [[|23px|border]] Dialand Militia Leader |
Mikele Arrente Alaoyian Commander Major General |
First in Command Second in Command |
Political Leader Military Leader | ||||||
The Diash Mountain War (Diash: Cogadh Sléibhe Diann) began on January 17, 1999 and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between the government of Alaoyi, far-right Diash nationalist groups, the Army of the Irreverent (AI), and the Prophetist extremist group Ndị Ogbugbu (NO), fighting each other to increase their influence in the mountainous territory.
The conflict first began rooted in the Diash Rebellion of 1988, an attempted secession by the Free Dialand Movement. Shortly after the failed secession the SD's militarists retreated into the Diash Mountains. The conflict began intensifying in 1999 when President Johannes Rhoodie declared that the group's mild raiding activities posed a national security threat. The backlash from the military crackdown led to the SD escalating its attacks and attempts to control territory. Since 2006, the NO and AI began operating in the region.
The reasons for fighting vary from group to group. The Alaoyian government claims to be fighting for order and stability, and to protect the rights and interests of its citizens. The SD claims to be reacting to perceived threats by the Onslander and Ndibeanyan dominated government against the Diash population. Both the atheist AI and Prophetist NO oppose the Christian-dominated Alaoyian and Diash groups and each other, and have intensified conflict between each other.
According to a study by Alaoyi's Memorial Center, 120,000 people have died in the conflict between 1999 and 2021, most of them civilians (82,000 civilians and 38,000 fighters), and more than two million civilians were forced from their homes between 1999 and 2009. As of April 2022, the Alaoyian government reported 6,212,901 victims of the Alaoyian conflict, with 923,110 of them being children.
The Congress of Nations has estimated that 18% of all civilian deaths in the Alaoyian conflict were caused by Diash nationalists, with 71% caused by the NO and AI, and the remaining 11% caused by Alaoyian security forces.