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Communist faction falls in Taragai

Ebegei Qoriqacha, self-declared Khatun of Taragai, stands outside Khogne after the city's capture

The last stronghold of the former communist regime in Taragai has fallen to monarchist forces, ending a decades-long regime that once controlled that country.

Forces loyal to the self-declared Khatun of Taragai, Ebegei Qoriqacha, seized the city of Khogne today. Khogne was the capital in exile of the former government, and its capture has ended organized resistance by the former regime except for scattered remnants being mopped up by Qoriqacha’s forces. This has also ended the one-party regime of the Taragaian Peoples’ Revolutionary Party (TPRP), which ruled Taragai since 1931. A reformist faction of the TPRP is currently running the country as part of a transitional government, but Khoga’s faction represented hardline TPRP elements wanting to keep one-party rule.

The capture of Khogne also represents the fall of Chaghagan Khoga, once the most feared and notorious man in Taragai. As Director of State Security, Khoga ran the Internal Security Directorate, the country’s secret police. Khoga and the ISD were accused of committing numerous human rights abuses. Khoga was listed as a wanted criminal by Taragai’s transitional government, which wanted to try him for those alleged crimes. However, a terse statement from Qoriqacha’s spokesperson stated that Khoga had been summarily executed after his capture in Khogne “for his role in the former communist regime and his crimes against the Taragaian people.”

Khoga’s execution without trial was condemned by the transitional government in Bor-Öndör. “While Chaghagan Khoga was an evil man, every Taragaian deserves the right to a fair investigation and a fair trial for any accused crimes,” a spokesperson for the transitional government said. “The insurrectionists in western Taragai do not have the right to act as judge, jury and executioner.”

The fall of the communist holdouts in Khogne has raised security concerns in Bor-Öndör as well. Without Khoga’s followers separating the rebels in western Taragai from the transitional government’s territory in the east, there is now the possibility that the rebels may turn their attention eastward. An attempted offensive in northern Taragai against the rebels has stalled in the face of stiff resistance. The transitional government has also blamed Xiomeran intervention for their forces’ inability to break the stalemate.

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