People's Army for the Revolution
People's Army for the Revolution Runakunapa Awqaqkuna Alsakuypaq | |
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| Abbreviation | RAA |
| Eternal Leader | Yaya Runa Kasuy (deceased) |
| Commander | Wallpa Nina |
| Founded | June 14, 1961 |
| Banned | Since foundation |
| Newspaper | Puka Alsakuy |
| Militant wing | People's Red Army |
| Political wing | Council for National Liberation |
| Membership (2022) | 5,000 to 13,000 (esimate) |
| Ideology | Werner-Tsenpoism, Yaya Kasuy Thought, self-reliance, anti-Achtilism |
| Political position | Ordosocialism |
| Religion | Atheist |
| Colours | Red |
| Slogan | Puka Alsakuy! ("Red Revolution!") |
| Anthem | For a Red Dawn |
The People's Army for the Revolution (Kaya Simi: Runakunapa Awqaqkuna Alsakuypaq, shortened to RAA) is a Kayahallpan Werner-Tsenpoist ordosocialist political-militant organization working for the overthrowal of the Sacred Kayahallpan Republic. It launched a wave of violent activity in 1963 with the aim of creating an armed mass movement against the Kamasqa's rule, the Kayan Priesthood and imperialism. Lead by Yaya Runa Kasuy ("Supreme People's Leader"), an intellectual critic influenced by Jhengtsang's Cultural Revolution, much of its activities have been focused on hijacking, assaults on state troops, drug trafficking and the creation of liberated zones in rural areas. Runa Kasuy was captured by Kayahallpan operatives in 2002 and summarily executed, after which the group has been led by Wallpa Nina, a close associate of Kasuy; it has largely only operated undercover since. It is considered the largest and most active resistance group in the Sacred Republic, and has shown the capacity to inflict the most damage upon the nation's theocratic government.
The movement's founding dates to June 14th, 1961 as a clandestine association between Yaya Runa Kasuy and other Kayahallpan socialist thinkers who wished to restore the ordosocialist regime Kaman Yashakphi had established and end the newly-established Sakbeist regime under Pitiy Achtil, and was one of many opposition groups active at the time. After an initial "inactive phase" where the group focused on building a proper organization and network, it asserted itself in national affairs in October 1963, when the RAA released its manifesto and seized control of several rural localities. Throughout the rest of the 1970s, the RAA fought for control with the Enforcers and Kayahallpan army across much of the country. During this time (the 'Uru pacha, "vermin time"), widespread human rights abuses were committed by both sides. The movement would suffer splits as Kasuy's control of the organization grew to near-total power and all libertarian socialist elements were purged.
At the group's peak in early 1965, the RAA was active across much of the Kayahallpan countryside, regularly rocked neighborhoods of Tupawasi with massive explosions and brazen weaponized assaults, and had informal diplomatic connections with several leftist governments abroad. However, the launch of Operation Kuntur in June that year saw the operations of the organization almost totally demolished over a period of five years, with high-level members being killed or forced into hiding. In the 1980s all RAA militants and their supporters, real or imagined, were executed on Achtil's command; estimates for the death toll of the "White Purge" range from under 40,000 to more than 160,000. A number of members went into exile to socialist states, where they maintain contact with the remaining Kayahallpan cells and attempt to increase foreign pressure on the Kamasqa's regime. The RAA operates its own newspaper, Puka Alsakuy ("Red Revolution"), which is banned in Kayahallpa but circulated internationally and, reportedly, clandestinely in Kayahallpa as well.