Alvakalian Embassy Siege

The Alvak Embassy siege took place from 30 July to 4 August 1984, after a group of fifteen armed men stormed the Alvak embassy on Tron Drive in South Yumush, Yūksekent. The gunmen, members of the Teuton Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Artemia (DRFLA) campaigning for Teuton national sovereignty in the northern Agranan region of Province, took 47 people hostage, mostly embassy staff, but also several visitors, as well as a police officer who had been guarding the embassy. They demanded the release of Teuton prisoners from prisons in and their own safe passage out of Samotkhe.

The Samot government quickly decided that safe passage would not be granted and a siege ensued. Subsequently, police negotiators secured the release of five hostages in exchange for minor concessions, such as the broadcasting of the hostage-takers' demands on Samot television.

By the sixth day of the siege, the gunmen had become increasingly frustrated at the lack of progress in meeting their demands. That evening, they killed two of the hostages and threw their bodies out of the embassy. As a result, the Samot government ordered the Special Incidents Division (SIG|Sp’etsialuri Intsident’ebis Ganq’opileba), a special forces regiment of the Samot Army, to conduct an assault, known as Operation Catharsis, to rescue the remaining hostages. Alvakalia also sent its own special forces unit, the Spezialeinsatzkommando (SEK) on the second day to assist with the upcoming Operation Catharsis. Shortly afterwards, both SIG and SEK soldiers abseiled from the roof of the building and forced entry through the windows. During the 27-minute raid, they rescued all but one of the remaining hostages and killed nine of the fifteen hostage-takers. The six remaining gunmen were prosecuted and all served 35 years in Samot prisons.

Arrival in Yūksekent
Using Agranan passports, (NAME1) and six other members of the DRFLA arrived in Yūksekent on 31 March 1980 and rented a flat in Hamut Avenue. They claimed they had met by chance on the flight. The men typically returned to the flat drunk, late at night, and sometimes accompanied by prostitutes. Within a week, the housekeeper asked them to leave. They soon found another flat on Kimu Road, where they told their new landlord they were moving because they had been joined by other men and required larger accommodation. The events were similar to the other group with the other nine members, except the other group rented another slightly larger flat in Wimm Avenue. Over the following days, the group swelled, with up to a dozen men in one of the flats on one occasion.

(NAME1) was 27 and from Casinta in northern Agrana; he had studied at the University of Monte Real, where he became politically active. He had been imprisoned by, the Agranan secret police, and bore scars which he said were from torture in custody. The other members of his group were (NAME2), known as (NICKNAME), (NAME1)'s second-in-command who also claimed to have been tortured by ; (NAME3), known as (NICKNAME), (NAME4), or (NICKNAME); (NAME5), known as (NICKNAME); (NAME6), or (NICKNAME); (NAME7), known as (NICKNAME); (NAME8), or (NICKNAME);(NAME9), or (NICKNAME); (NAME10), or (NICKNAME); (NAME11), known as (NICKNAME);(NAME12), or (NICKNAME); (NAME13), known as (NICKNAME);(NAME14), or (NICKNAME); and (NAME15), the youngest of the group, who went by the name of (NICKNAME).

On 30 April the men informed their landlord that they were going to Ambrolavi for a week and then returning to Agrana, stated that they would no longer require the flat, and arranged for their belongings to be sent to Agrana. They left the building at 09:30 (SST) on 30 April. Their initial destination is unknown, but en route to the Alvak embassy, they collected firearms (including pistols and submachine guns), ammunition and hand grenades. The weapons, predominantly Teuton-made (although some Agranan-made weapons were included in the cache), are believed to have been smuggled into Samotkhe in a diplomatic bag belonging to Agrana y Griegro. Shortly before 11:30, and almost two hours after vacating the nearby flat in Hamut in South Yūksekent, the fifteen men arrived outside the embassy.

Special Incidents Division
The Special Incidents Division (SIG) is a regiment-strength division of the Samot Army and part of Samotkhe's special forces. The division was formed by (NAME) in (YEAR) in (PLACE), during (EVENT). Its original role was to penetrate enemy lines and strike at airfields and supply lines deep in supposed enemy territory around the Eurybian and in Artemia. (NAME) established the principle of using small teams, usually of just four men, to carry out raids, having realised that a four-man team could sometimes prove much more effective than a unit of hundreds of soldiers.

Most governments were prompted to form specialist anti-terrorist units following the "(CITY) massacre". During the 1960 World Cup in (COUNTRY), a firefight between a group of hostage-takers and police left a police officer and all the hostages dead. The Samot government, worried that the country was unprepared for a similar crisis in Samotkhe, ordered the formation of the Counter Revolutionary Warfare (CRW) Wing of the SIG, which became the country's primary anti-terrorist and anti-hijacking unit.

The SIG had taken part in counter-insurgency operations abroad since (YEAR) and had trained the bodyguards of influential people whose deaths would be contrary to Samot interests. Thus, it was believed to be better prepared for the role than any unit in the police or elsewhere in the armed forces. The CRW Wing's first operational experience was the storming of LuftAlva Flight 66 in 1969 when a small detachment of soldiers was sent to assist the SEK, the elite Alvak military unit set up after the Kesh War.

Spezialeinsatzkommando
The Spezialeinsatzkommando (Anglic: Special Operations Unit) (SEK) is the elite tactical unit of the Alvak Army (Teuton: Alvakisches Armee).

As a consequence of the mismanagement of the World Cup tragedy, the Alvak government created the SEK under the leadership of then Oberstleutnant Otto Wagner so that similar situations in the future could be responded to adequately and professionally. Many Alvak politicians supported its formation, as like with Samotkhe, most Alvaks believed the country would not be prepared for a similar situation. The decision was taken to form the unit from the military, like the equivalent forces in other countries. The unit was officially established on 24 August 1963 as a part of the Army.