Kanjor

[Drax]

CLAIRON PICARD
 
KANJOR EXPECTS TO JOIN MORDUSIANS AND LUTHORIANS IN ATTACKING TERRORISTS IN ALDURIA


Governor General's Palace
 
Governor General’s Palace, November 20, 5602: The Governor General’s Office issued the following statement:
 

When we closed our border of Numineux Province with Vallee Region of Alduria, we began receiving many many refuges from the brutal terrorist rule.  We have refuge receiving stations in place organized by the National Gendarmerie who are assisted in processing and assessing the needs of refuges by personnel from the Foreign Ministry and the Directorate of Internal Security.
 
With refuges giving extensive reports of mass executions, enslavement and plans for worse by the terrorists, we have decided to intervene. We understand the Mordusians and Luthorians are doing the same.  We are making three initial steps.
 
First, the Canrille Union’s Imperial Command Headquarters has ordered 2nd, 4th and 5th Imperial Fleets to seal off coastal access to Alduria for receiving military supplies, reinforcements, arms and equipment supported by the National Navy’s Task Force 11, submarines of Task Forces 21 and 22 together with the long distance reconnaissance aircraft and multirole fighter bombers of Naval Air Wing 50.
 
Luthori will likely be also imposing naval interdiction as may Mordusia.  The 2nd Imperial Fleet is equipped with Soteira technology preventing a lot of aerial interference, and it is generally believed any Artanian or other distant power would bring with it inadequate air support to actually penetrate our defenses.
 
Second, the two National Army Corps stationed at the border of Numineux Province and Vallee Region, Alduria, each consisting of one armored and three mechanized divisions, are advancing steadily with ground support from two National Air Force wings of multirole fighter bombers.  The terrorists are believed to have earlier received some small arms and heavier weaponry from the Kundrati Union so some resistance was expected,  and some resistance has occurred in individual cases, but to date the main activity has been breaking up formations preparing to murder large groups of local inhabitants.  Most terrorists have fallen back in good order but some were so engrossed in their work that they waited too long to flee and escape capture.  We have advanced about 111 kilometers so far from all points of the border
 
Observed activity and accounts by freed villagers would make one believe all the terrorists do is kill their fellow Aldurians, but clearly they have  organized leadership.  Accordingly, the military assessment given the Government is that at some point either they will make a concerted stand with what weaponry they can concentrate or they will try to initiate cease fire talks.
 
Third, in any event we have a worse problem.  In addition to murdering a considerable amount of their citizenry, and trying to enslave quite a few others, the terrorists have severely disrupted economic activity and everyday life by creating a huge flood of Aldurians simply trying to escape. So as we advance we are encountering a tremendous quantity of victims who for the time being are simply looking for  safety, food, water and shelter.
 
Not an easy task or an inexpensive one but we will provide those things. A Provisional Support Corps has been formed by the National Army Staff largely from several infantry divisions to deal with the refuges in the areas in Alduria to the rear of our advance to take care of their immediate needs and try to restart something approaching normal life in the liberated areas to the extent possible.  A very daunting task.
 
While from a distance their only purpose seems to be imitation of the lamentable regime in the Kundrati Union, the terrorists in fact secured control of Alduria with little or no opposition collapsing the socialist government that had seemed viable and which at that time was part of the Union of Canrille.  Which leads us to believe the terrorist leadership may be far more clever and resilient than they appear and their elimination more difficult.
 
Further, should Luthori, Mordusia and Kanjor succeed in driving out the terrorists in Alduria and eliminating their leadership, we may well be hard pressed to find elements capable of governing Alduria in view of the quick collapse of the prior government and the lack of serious opposition to the terrorist regime taking control.  It appears there have been protests against the slave labor laws; this could be where citizens capable of bringing Alduria back from the abyss may be found.
 
As an entirely separate matter, Task Force 12 and National Army and National Air Force assets have been with withdrawn from the Lourennais naval base in Aldegar and have returned home.