Kartvelian National Liberation League

The Kartvelian National Liberation League (KELL or Kartveli Erovnuli Liberaluri Liga) is a and   active in the southern regions of Yarova. It is the largest and most active paramilitary group in the United Federated Districts and is designated an unlawful by the federal government, as well as the League of Free Nations.

In KELL’s so-called ‘national manifesto,’ the organisation lay out their aims of removing traditional Kartvelian territories from the United Federated Districts and creating a “.” Throughout their existence, the organisation has sought a united front with other national liberation guerrillas in the Dzyunakaz Steppe, such as the Independence Army and the  Freedom Front. It has waged a campaign of against the United Federated Districts and its Federal Armed Forces, involving shootings and bombings in ‘areas of economic and political importance.’ KELL has also practised a strategy of raiding sheep and cattle  in Kropokhovo Oblast, which are typically owned by ethnic Yarovars descended from settlers who arrived to the region during the Plantation of the Dzyunakaz.

Numerous allegations of connections between KELL and the Kartvelian Tributary State in Avalonia have surfaced, especially considering the radical nature of the constitution of the KTS, which states that the current state is only the temporary domain of the Kartvelian people and they shall eventually reclaim their homeland. However, disputes between KELL and KTS ideologies are numerous. In the past, Yarovan intelligence organisations, including the Federal Intelligence Agency (FRU), have stood by such claims.

History
The Kingdom of Kartvelia was annexed by the Vojiskiy Empire in 1730, following the Battle of Khankalgorod at the end of the Second Dzyunakaz War. Historians estimate that some 120,000-210,000 Kartvelians were slaughtered during this conflict, and acts of genocide are documented to have continued through the course of the mid-to-late eighteenth century, claiming an additional 45,000 lives in the Kartvelia region. Kartvelian nationalist resistance has existed since the fall of the Kingdom of Kartvelia, however, the earlier strategies were not significantly impactful, other than occasional raids on ethnic Yarovar settlements, such as Sterlisk.

KELL was preceded by the Kartvelian Republican Front, which emerged in 1926 as a direct result of the foundation of federal reservations and the non-contiguous nature of the Severnaya Kartveliya and Yuzhnaya Kartveliya reservations, which divided ethnic Kartvelian communities territorially and opened up further ethnic Yarovar settlement. The Kartvelian Republican Front split into two separate factions in 1955, owing to irreconcilable ideological differences between the membership. KELL, which boasted majority support, was established as a organisation, whereas the smaller Popular Front for the Freedom of Kartvelia (PPKT or P’op’ularuli Pront’i Kartuli Tavisuplebistvis) aspired to the reconstruction of the Kartvelian monarchy.

Under the command of chief of staff Malkhazi Darchidze, KELL entered into talks with the federal government during the Dadei administration in 1967.