Ghur–Tadhir War

The Ghur–Tadhir War also known as the Pigs' War was a military conflict between the Ghur Republic and the Kingdom of Tadhir that lasted six months between 954 and 957. The Crescent Empire sided with the Ghur Republic and declared war on Tadhir a few months after the conflict started in November 955. Historians debate on the exact causes of the war, but it is universally accepted that the main event behind the conflict was the assassination of Ghur President Bharazdurri Golalim at the hands of a Tadhir Secret Police officer in February 954.

Background
Tensions between the Ghur Republic and Tadhir had grown ever since the dissolution of the Ghur Confederation in 907, when President Ikhnurpaz Ayonath declared the southern Ghur-speaking regions of Tadhir to be part of the Republic, including the territories of the defunct Itumzutuh State.

In the Uzghur Civil War of 921 the Tadhir Secret Police became involved in the killing of ethnic Ghurs in Uzghur territory, bringing the Ghur Republic and the Tahirate to the brink of war in 923. In 949 Bharazdurri Golalim became President of the Ghur Republic after being elected by the Senate, becoming the nation's youngest person to ever take office. Bharazdurri was known to have close ties to the Divine Hand, a Ghur nationalist group operating in the northern bordering province of Nurayadd and a declared enemy of the Tadhir State.

In August 950 the King of Tadhir Alkhim II survived an assassination attempt while staying in his lake villa in Turpaz, in the Tukhlim of Qetahar. Alkhim's royal councellors believed the assassination had been commissioned by Ghur Republic officials and in September 950 the Tadhiri Prime Minister Enokh Surgath sent a letter to President Bharazdurri demanding justice for the offense. Bharazdurri never responded.

Assassination of Bharazdurri Golalim
On February 5 954 President Bharazdurri was in a diplomatic visit in the Crescent Empire imperial city of Pawle meeting with Prince Imperial Wamgwu as part of the President's diplomatic missions to the east. In previous months she had been in Nurghur, Tohor, Iyadim and Tajaz. She had plans to go further northeast Nahiir and the Kingdom of Sasak. The day after her meeting with the Imperial Prince she was found dead in her bedchambers by her handmaiden; her throat had been sliced. Her own guards and the Imperial Crescent Guard captured a suspect on 6 February in the outskirts of Pawle, later identified as Nerkhan Elajakh, a lieutenant of the Tadhir Secret Police. Elajakh confessed to having killed the President, but spoke no further.

Elajakh was transferred to Ghur, where he was inprisoned in Bhabhor. Army of the Republic Commander Nadrumor Ayonath became acting President. When it became public knowledge that Bharazdurri had been killed by a Tadhiri many Ghur cities emerged into chaos with riots and protests demanding Elajakh to be publicly executed. Many ethnic Tadhiris in Nurayadd and Pazlih were forced to retreat north into Tadhir. By 29 March 954 the protests had reached Itumghur and calls for the Presidency to take action were being heard across the entire nation. In August 954 the Tadhiri government released a public statement apologizing deeply for the situation, claiming Elajakh had been mentally unstable in previous months and had been discharged from his post in the Secret Police. The Tadhiris also requested Elajakh to be returned safely to Tadhir where he would be properly processed with a fair trial. Against the Ghur people's pleads, Nadrumor agreed. However before Elajakh could be returned to Tadhir, the Ghur government received information that the Citrang Imperial Police had found Tadhiri spies infiltrated in the Awet'gai who were tied to the assassination of Bharazdurri. The transference of Elajakh was held down and the Tadhiri government was questioned on the subject.