Years of Wrath

Years of Wrath
Clockwise from top left: MADC members assume responsibility for the 1999 Desterro Stock Center bombing, UVC members pose with newly-painted mural in Blumenau, ERRG armoured units enforce the First Military Intervention in Santa Catarina, ERRG tanks stroll through Lages in the Second Military Intervention in Santa Catarina, MADC militant patrols a neighborhood in Desterro, eastern Desterro after the 1997 Battle of Lagoa
Date 11th November 1994 - Early 2005 Location Rio Grande do Sul Result Rio-Grandian victory MADC forces confined to Western Santa Catarina Militarisation of the Catarinan branch of the National Gendarmerie Stricter anti-terrorism laws Withdrawal of the ERRG military intervention in June 2005 Continuing sporadic violence
Belligerents
State security forces: Rio-Grandian Republican Army (ERRG) National Gendarmerie of Rio Grande do Sul	Catarinan secessionist paramilitaries Armed Movement David Canabarro (MADC) Catarinan Revolutionary Army (ERC) Catarinan People's Militia (MPC) United Action for Catarinan Sovereignity (AUIC) Anita Garibaldi Association (AAG)	Catarinan unionist paramilitares Union of Catarinan Volunteers (UVC) Catarinan Defense Association (ADC) Condor Resistance Commando (CRC) Desterro Death Squad Movement for the Defense of the Republic (MDR)
Casualties and losses
2,467 (ERRG) 1,050 (National Gendarmerie) Total: 3,517	1,022 (MADC) 133 (MPC) 94 (ERC) 34 (AUIC) 7 (AAG) Total: 1,290	318 (UVC) 217 (ADC) 14 (CRC) 10 (Desterro Death Squad) 4 (MDR) Total: 563
Civillians killed: 6,440 (6,772 including ex-combatants) Total dead: 11,810 Total injured: 165,000+ All casualties: c. 176,000

The Years of Wrath (Rio-Grandense Portuguese: Anos de Fúria), also known as The Wrath (Rio-Grandense Portuguese: A Fúria), were an decade-long ethno-nationalist conflict in Rio Grande do Sul, specifically located in the northernmost department of Santa Catarina, that lasted from 1994 to 2005, ending with a large-scale military intervention by the Rio-Grandian Republican Army in 2004. Even though most of the violence was confined to Santa Catarina, violence spilled to other parts of Rio Grande do Sul and to the neighbouring countries of Argentina, in the province of Palmas, and Brazil, in the province of Paraná and São Paulo.

Described as the "South American Troubles", the conflict consisted of what could be considered a highly assimetrical war of medium intensity, sometimes nearing a civil war. The reasons for the conflict were deeply historically rooted, and contained a strong ethnic and sectarian character. Secessionists, mainly based at the northern and western cities of the department, along with working class neighborhoods of Desterro, and descendants from the original citizens of the Juliana Republic, supported the independence of Santa Catarina as a independent republic. Unionists, on the other hand, were mainly based in the southern and eastern cities of Santa Catarina, along with other working class neighborhoods of Desterro, and had close cultural and historical ties with Gaúcho communities in the region of Santa Catarina, wished for the maintainance of Santa Catarina as a department of the Rio-Grandian Republic.