Khyar Aziouel
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Khyar Aziouel | |
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| Amizar of Charnea | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Office Created |
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| Born | 14 October 1983 Hatheria, Charnea |
| Spouse | Seda Souri |
| Children | Ilbak Souri Askiou Souri |
| Alma mater | Senusret Military Academy |
| Profession | Military leader |
Khyar Aziouel is a military officer and political leader in the Republic of Charnea. He currently serves as the first Amizar of the Republic, having assumed office on the 20th of January 2024 to begin his term. Khyar is one of the key figures of the nascent Republic as one of the founders of the system of franchise earned through service which he helped established in part during his time in the Provisional Military Government and expanded at the beginning of his term as Amizar. He is an important ideological proponent of a strand of Charnean Nationalists dedicated to the integration of ethnic and religious minorities into the Charnean Nation in part through the new model of national service open to all. This nascent political movement, sometimes dubbed Aziouelists, also contains a strong anti-corruption bend, attracting members of the military old guard and civilian supporters alike united by their dissatisfaction with the open corruption of the previous AKE regime. Prior to his political career in the Republic, Khyar was a career officer in the Charnean Army serving as part of the Desert Rangers. His first combat deployment was during the September War in 2004, after which he would be reassigned to the Ranger training school in Agnannet as an instructor. He would later rise to the command of the entire Ranger school, occupying a senior position in the Ranger Corps by the time of the Muttay uprising.
Early life
Khyar was born on the 29th of September 1983 in a rural hospital outside of the city of Azut to a family of eastern Coptic Kel Dinik displaced by the ongoing Ninvite War. The first few years of his life were spent in the Mawla Refugee Camp in the Adjer mountains, a site infamous for its poor conditions. Khyar's mother, Manat, along with his three sisters were the only surviving members of the family together at Mawla. Khyar's father and adult brother had both stayed behind in the conflict zone to protect their village and died early in Khyar's childhood. What remained of the Aziouel family remained in mawla until the camp was disbanded in 1987, forcing its residents out. Those whose homes had been destroyed during the war, including the Aziouel family, were forced to fend for themselves. Manat, Khyar and the three girls were taken in by a Deshrian Coptic anchorite hermit turned farmer known only as Sidi Anoub.
Sidi Anoub provided for the family in exchange for labor on his small farm nestled in the northern hills of the Adjer massif. In particular, Khyar was expected to work hard to help keep the farm operating and to provide for Manat and Khyar's three sisters, whom Sidi Anoub did not believe should be made to preform manual labor around the household. Sidi Anoub assumed responsibility for Khyar's education through his teenage years, teaching him to read and write the Tamashek, Deshrian and Hatherian Gharib languages, as well as providing a formal religious education in Coptic theology and scripture. Known as a strict diciplinarian, Sidi Anoub nevertheless encouraged Khyar to make more of himself. This would eventually lead Khyar down the path of a military career as he was unable to find a job or further opportunities for advancement while lacking a formal education and living in an economically depressed post-war Charnean far east.
Military career
Field duty
Khyar Aziouel presented himself to the central military recruiting station in inner Azut city on the 3rd of December 1999. As a member of both a religious and ethnic minority in Charnea, Khyar was an undesirable candidate in the main body of the Charnean Army dominated by Ashniist Ajamite Tenerians. However, he would be recommended to join the Desert Rangers military intelligence unit when the officers of the intake station discovered that he could speak Hatherian Gharabic without an accent.