Muttay
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| The Muttay | |||
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| ⵎⵓⵜⵜⴰⵢ | |||
| Date | 7 - 10 June 2023 | ||
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| Methods | Mutiny | ||
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The Muttay (Tamashek: ⵎⵓⵜⵜⴰⵢ, lit. "The Change") was a military uprising which took place in Charnea in early June of 2023 which resulted in the fall of the civilian government and the end of the Charnean Empire. The uprising took the form of a violent schism within the Charnean Army instigated by a radical changes with respect to military-civilian affairs and state oversight of the Army. Many of the mutineers were part of military units which had previously been known for their high level of autonomous operation and had garnered reputations for straying from the orders of the Army high command, most notable in the case of the Desert Ranger Corps which formed the nucleus of the mutiny in the Charnean city of Azut. The uprising itself lasted four days from the 3rd to the 7th of June during which sporadic skirmishes between Charnean Army units were reported all along the the length of Charnea's central Xallalbatan railroad as well as the zone of permanent military occupation in the far east of the country as fighting took place within and between garrisons and dispersed detachments of the Army. The disintegration of the civilian government and the later resignation of the state's Defense Minister on the 7th of June with the mutineers at the gates of Agnannet decapitated the chain of military command and brought about an end to the hostilities, narrowly avoiding the onset of a full-scale civil war the likes of which had recently torn apart neighboring Fahran. Of those in the Army that had fought against the mutineers, a significant portion reintegrated with their former enemies in the reconstituted post-Muttay Charnean Army, while the remainder resigned from military service and were allowed to return to civilian life. A minority of the most hated counter-mutineers, especially the non-Army paramilitary security forces, self-exiled from the country out of fear of reprisals from the victorious mutineers.
The rapid and unexpected collapse of the AKE party's rule in the face of the Muttay left a major institutional vacuum at the head of the Charnean government which the mutineers struggled to fill. In contrast to a conventional military coup, the successful mutiny lacked a clear leader around which to establish a stable military dictatorship. Most of the mutineers were part of disparate and unrelated parts of the Army each with no strong ties to the officers of the other, having been unified more out of opposition to the regime of Premier Marus Ibiza and his high command rather than by loyalty to any central leadership. Lacking the direct loyalty of most of the Army, the newly established junta in Agnannet was only able to reconstitute the fractured military and establish control over the country by gaining the conditional support of the rank and file soldiers and junior officers of the Army with promises of political rights under the new regime. Over the next several months, the Provisional Military Government (PMG) would become increasingly dependent on the support of these groups to survive, support predicated on self determination and the investment of political power outside of any central clique in Agnannet. This dynamic would eventually transition into the limited democracy of the modern Charnean Republic as the new state continued to gain the support of key demographics through the provision of political rights and other benefits earned through various forms of national service.