Journal of Akhadic Studies

[Hadash]

Journal of Akhadic Studies

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By: Ahmet Irekur
Published: Vintyr, 1582


Hayreddin Bal-Kabir had been the leader of the Akhadist northwestern insurgency since 1577.

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Last week, Kyrzbekistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed the death of Hayreddin Bal-Kabir, military and spiritual leader of one of the most active armed groups of the Akhadist insurgency in that country.

Hayreddin Bal-Kabir, 46, died in a counter-terrorism operation planned and executed by the Kyrzbekistani Armed Forces. He was allegedly hiding in a bunker in the Moshavek mountains in northwestern Kyrzbekistan, only a few kms from the A'Sirian border. According to Yalgän Sharek newspaper, his group hidden military camp had been bombed by the Kyrzbekistani Air Force, and fighting continued in Nashami, a nearby village. About 276 militia fighters were killed -along them Elbrus Alimur, another wanted Akhadist insurgent leader- and about a hundred were either severely wounded or arrested. Terrorism experts agree that Bal-Kabir's death is likely to be a huge blow for Radical Akhadist insurgency in the Near East country.

While groups such Dakh-Sumakh (the terror group behind the attack of the Florinthian Swan cruise) have been the ones which have gathered more attention outside Kyrzbekistan, the truth is that such groups were barely a threat to the Kyrzbekistani state for a long time. Specially after the end of the Wadiyah Civil War, the activities and membership of the Dakh-Sumakh terror group was highly reduced to bloodthirsty and mediatic actions but very often bad planned and ineffective. A report of already 1577 declared that Dakh-Sumakh was believed to have about 20 militants in all Kyrzbekistan, some of them likely young and unexperienced.

For a while, it seemed that Ut-Konçareq -a split from another Akhadist terror organization, Bal-Zurmakh, now defunct- seemed to replace Dakh-Sumakh's place. Between 1573 and 1576, Ut-Konçareq was able launch a guerrilla war against Kyrzbekistani state in eastern Kyrzbekistan. The group, which was slightly more pragmatist that Dakh-Sumakh, with many local fighters, was however almost completely crushed by early 1576. But the group, which aimed to the establishment of a theocratic government in Kyrzbekistan, faced the ideological constraints of similar armed groups, and it proved unable to expand their influence and activities beyond some of the most isolated provinces of eastern Kyrzbekistan. This proved more obvious when non-violent Akhadist political parties suchas the Kyrzbek National Party started to gained ground in the state of Yartushia. Ut-Konçareq's long leader, Ildus Narimanur, was killed in 1575, and since them, the group saw their military commanders dying one after another.

Hayreddin Bal-Kabir's insurgent group, known as Tönyaq Bal-Mokatdezh, attempted a shift of strategy which seemed to differentiate them from other similar Radical Akhadist organizations in the country. Tönyaq Bal-Mokatdezh had more realistic aims, and the activity of the group was reduced to the northwestern and northeastern provinces of the border, along the long and porous border with A'Sir. Hayreddin Bal-Kabir was an ethnic Yisärian, an ethnic group which populates northern Kyrzbekistan. Tönyaq Bal-Mokatdezh was founded in 1575 or 1576 as the merger of a small local group with several cells and remnants of other Radical Akhadist terrorist organizations, such as Bal-Zurmakh, Bal-Manakh or Gaskar Bal-Akhadi (Akhadic Army). Although many of their fighters were ethnic Kyrzbeks, by 1579, the group had already become in a separatist insurgency group, which aimed to the independence of Western Yisäria -a long strip along Kyrzbekistan and A'Sir border with a population of barely 1-2 million people- in a state guided by the Zokuk, the Akhadic religious law, as basic political organization.

Tönyaq Bal-Mokatdezh was said to be supported and founded by the Akhadic Republic of A'Sir, however this claim was always strongly denied by the A'Sirian government. It was also said that Hayreddin Bal-Kabir had been in contact with Septar Bekur, who had been Minister of National Security of the Akhadic Republic of Kyrzbekistan during the Kyrzbekistani civil war. Bekur, who was allegedly seen alive for last time in 1571 in A'Sir, it is under an international warrant and his current whereabouts are unknown.

Under Hayreddin Bal-Kabir's leadership, the group went as far as -although expressing their moral support to the fight of the Rojadavi people- did not recommend to their supporters to move to New Galasia to join the fight as foreign fighters. Some anaylists believe, however, that it is expected a long succession infighting between whatever it remains of the terror group, and that Bal-Kabir's influence is not likely to survive his physical death, and that many of their fighters may opt to join the struggle in eastern New Galasia. Specially now that Akhadist groups in that country are experienced their momentum in the Galasian Civil War.

Kyrzbekistan's Chairman of the People's Council, Damir Kazbekur, has declared that Kyrzbekistan will never cease the fight against terrorism until it is completely eradicated. A former guerrilla commander himself, many political commentators have noted the irony of the increasingly harsh methods of the government's counter-terrorism strategy in the last years. Kazbekur has promised the creation of a development federal fund for those areas affected by fighting between government and insurgent forces in the last months.