Veikan Civil War

The Veikan Civil War was a multifaceted Civil War in the former Veikan Kingdom between government forces, the Ignatovist Communist People's Red Front (PRF) and the Democratic Democratic Action Movement (DAM) with later involvement of the League of Free Nations. Several minor factions sprung through the war but never managed to reach a major position in the conflict and were eventually defeated by the Red Front and Democratic Movement. The war began in 1972 after a series of pro-democratic riots and revolts threw the country into chaos and the Army's state of disarray allowed for the Red Front militias to take several key positions along the country's highlands. By 197X a multinational force composed of several League of Free Nations-member nations officially intervened in the war in favor of the DAM forces struggling to secure their hold over Southern Veikaia and facing a serious threat of invasion from the PRF.

The exiled Veikan Kingdom has not officially signed a peace treaty with either side, turning the Veikan Civil War into one of the longest military conflicts in history lasting over 30 years.

Background
Through the 20th century the Kingdom had suffered large amounts of dissent and an exponentially growing communist movement led by the Ignatovists with several large scale revolts rocking the country and slowly destabilizing it further. The power of the state had been already waning for at least a century and the newly ascended Oroket Anton II's liberal attitudes fueled the pro-democratic movement's strength and greatly increased discontent among the Veikan Old Guard; A group of high ranking military officers and important political figures that had great power in the Veikan Political System and were decidedly conservative.

In the other hand, the communist movement in Veikaia had been steadily growing since the 1940s, sometimes unhindered by an archaic military force and inefficient bureaucracy but remained somewhat contained only engaging in sporadic combat with government forces across the northern Veikan Highlands. Irakliy Petrov was chairman of the illegal Communist Party of Veikaia and the Voika Council; The head of the revolution. The man had led several Communist insurrections since his election as head in 1965.

Riots of '72
Through the early 1970s the political situation in Veikaia had begun to sour as King Bronislav's more liberal policy on the matters of the state had tremendously backfired. Lighter censorship and oppression of liberal movements in Veikaia had led to the noticeable radicalization of the democratic movements in the nation from a policy of slow reformation into open revolt. Through the early 70s the country started to experience mounting tensions as protests slowly escalated into open riots and terrorism.

This escalated until the September 21st 1972 when the largest riot in Veikan history erupted in the largest city in South Veikaia, Biratov. After an unsuccessful and bloody attempt at dissolving an ongoing protest, the riot raged and continued for several days as rioters barricaded themselves inside buildings and cut off entire roads, building makeshift tank traps across roads and slowing the advance of the severely outdated Veikan armor. The King's slow reaction and aversion towards violence caused the riot to escalate to a point where most of the major parts of the city were under the control of the rioters, now declaring themselves part of the Democratic Action Movement and under the orders of their leader Vlas Zelenko. For a period of at least a month military incompetence, low morale and uncertainty led to a standoff between the military and members of the DAM who were reportedly armed and ready to engage in open combat.

The extreme escalation and the outright refusal of the King to engage in open combat with the dissidents caused an uproar among the conservative elements of the military and government, who composed a large portion of it. This group of important members of the country's elite was eventually named the "Old Guard", as they defended the views of the older members of the Royal Family and refused to accept the new King's more liberal policy.

Across the country several more riots and protests sprung almost in unison while the standoff raged in Valopole with varying success, declaring themselves in allegiance to the DAM; The regional capitals of Samil and Biratov eventually becoming strongholds of the Democratic Movement after successful revolts in 1973.