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The government responded by initiating a special combined operation by Army and BSP battalions to clear the city and the surrounding area. Power and water were shut off to the city, roads blockaded and supplies turned back while a massive artillery bombardment began. ACM forces attempted to repeatedly break the siege by using truck bombs and exploiting the temporary gaps created but air power turned them back everytime. After two months of sluggish advance amid heavy fighting, the government was in position to assault Khov and did so starting in September 1996. Of note in the [[Battle of Khov]] is the participation of a new entity called the [[Peace Brigade]], which had links but was not subordinated to the BSP. It is rumored however that the Peace Brigade was the brainchild of [[Prib Dodd]], head of BSP at the time. Three more weeks of fierce urban fighting ensured that most of Khov was destroyed and the brutality of the Peace Brigade made sure most of the population followed their city into oblivion. Only three members of the ACM's Directorate survived the battle and fled the fall of the city using tunnels dug under the city, escaping further west. | The government responded by initiating a special combined operation by Army and BSP battalions to clear the city and the surrounding area. Power and water were shut off to the city, roads blockaded and supplies turned back while a massive artillery bombardment began. ACM forces attempted to repeatedly break the siege by using truck bombs and exploiting the temporary gaps created but air power turned them back everytime. After two months of sluggish advance amid heavy fighting, the government was in position to assault Khov and did so starting in September 1996. Of note in the [[Battle of Khov]] is the participation of a new entity called the [[Peace Brigade]], which had links but was not subordinated to the BSP. It is rumored however that the Peace Brigade was the brainchild of [[Prib Dodd]], head of BSP at the time. Three more weeks of fierce urban fighting ensured that most of Khov was destroyed and the brutality of the Peace Brigade made sure most of the population followed their city into oblivion. Only three members of the ACM's Directorate survived the battle and fled the fall of the city using tunnels dug under the city, escaping further west. | ||
After the decimation of the ACM at Khov and the end of their territorial experiment, the vacant Directorate seats were slowly filled by BSP infiltrators acting upon Operation Maniphage. If the ACM's leader was not a government agent by this point, he was certainly surrounded by them. The new Directorate blamed the conservative leanings of the peasantry and their lack of revolutionary zeal as the root causes for the defeat and moved to suppress them. | |||
===Suppression of the Right=== | ===Suppression of the Right=== | ||
===Taming the Army=== | ===Taming the Army=== | ||
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*'''Operation Dendron''' - A two part operation, the first part was the orchestrated mass arrest and physical liquidation of the entire national and regional leadership figures of the [[Communist Party of Corumm]]. The second part was the taking of the infant children of the victims and their induction into BSP-run institutes to be raised as government assets. | *'''Operation Dendron''' - A two part operation, the first part was the orchestrated mass arrest and physical liquidation of the entire national and regional leadership figures of the [[Communist Party of Corumm]]. The second part was the taking of the infant children of the victims and their induction into BSP-run institutes to be raised as government assets. | ||
*'''Operation Eschaton''' - The targeted killing of leadership cadres of the [[Army of Common Men]] beginning in May 1995. The killings mostly took the form of car bombs, poisoning and in at least five instances with a remotely controlled machine gun. The operation lasted approximately two years and its success was a necessary precondition for the later Operation Maniphage. During Eschaton approximately 430 people were asassinated. | *'''Operation Eschaton''' - The targeted killing of leadership cadres of the [[Army of Common Men]] beginning in May 1995. The killings mostly took the form of car bombs, poisoning and in at least five instances with a remotely controlled machine gun. The operation lasted approximately two years and its success was a necessary precondition for the later Operation Maniphage. During Eschaton approximately 430 people were asassinated. | ||
*'''Operation Maniphage''' - The gradual infiltration of the leadership ranks of the [[Army of Common Men]]. In the months before the start of Operation Eschaton, BSP agents joined the ACM as low level operatives. The BSP's targeted decimation of the leadership forced the ACM to progressively rely on newer but apparently loyal members to fill the yawning gaps in the organization. By late | *'''Operation Maniphage''' - The gradual infiltration of the leadership ranks of the [[Army of Common Men]]. In the months before the start of Operation Eschaton, BSP agents joined the ACM as low level operatives. The BSP's targeted decimation of the leadership forced the ACM to progressively rely on newer but apparently loyal members to fill the yawning gaps in the organization. By late 1996 seven out of the ten members of the ACM's Directorate were BSP infiltrators. The new leadership proceeded to direct the ACM into even more radical actions, especially against civilians. This caused whatever popular support it still had, to completely collapse by 1998. | ||
==Directors of BSP== | ==Directors of BSP== | ||
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