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==== Operation Kipling ====

Already taxed by three ongoing military operations, the Burgundian Security Forces were slow to respond to the United Tribes cry for help. The Emir’s gathered a militia of loyal sheiks and engaged the communes for months in a back and forth skirmish that determined no clear victor. In January 1975 the Burgundian Security Forces finally committed to deploying ground troops to Battganuur. The 4th Parachutist Regiment of the Pukhgundian Gorkha Rifles was dispatched to support the Battganuuri militias and to coordinate the military effort. Finding the Burgundians domineering and condescending, the Emir determined to use them as little as possible. Having lost 85 men in three weeks the parachutists became enraged with the emir and began searching for disenfranchised sheiks to stage a coup. They found Sheik Jamal Amil al-Sharki to be the primary detractor and offered their services. Fearing that they might turn on him too, he instead asked them to try his men to conduct on a coup of their own. Three months later al-Sharki’s men were deemed trained enough to overpower bin Walid’s guard and Sheik al-Sharki was confident he could carry the other leaders with him. Leaving the Pukhgundian Gorkha Rifles to address the communists the al-Sharki faction set a coup in motion. Killing bin Walid in the first minutes of the coup those sheiks not loyal to al-Sharki were rounded up and imprisoned. Following a small engagement loyalist forces the couping militia subdued bin Walid’s force and executed the officers unwilling to take a loyalty oath to al-Sharki who subsequently named himself Emir. The following week saw nationwide reprisals and a driving focus on coordinating an offensive against the communist threat. The Burgundian Royal Air Service seconded a bomber squadron to the United Tribes and a combined arms assault leveled both communes, killed all those within and razed the structures. Yashwa Ali Saif, having been tipped off, escaped the slaughter and found safe passage to Pursat to continue his struggle. While his life was spared, not “going down with this people” made his lose credibility in the communist movement so his efforts were not as pervasive after that point.