Allimana's Tears

== Overview ==
The event of Allimana's Tears was the violent expulsion by the Iron Horde of countless PVT citizens from the city of Tiber Gracchus on the Mnelamin Coast into the wilderness of the Synovian Desert.
The expulsion began in late 4050 after the terroristic actions of PVT radical Daght Solari. The total distance marched is not known, however it is estimated that it was upwards of 300 miles. The march was characterized by severe climate conditions, torture and deaths by Laroussian raiding parties. Sources report widely differing casualties from the event, citing as much as 1.2 million, much of which were from starvation, disease, and exposure. There were also countless kidnappings into slavery by regional Laroussian warlords.
=== Details ===
Following the bombing of the Iron Apparat by Daght Solari, the Iron Coalition responded with horrifying military action, amassing a large force outside the Tiber Gracchus city limits. Tiber Gracchus's Pressemblant Oros Mannike recounted how this was done:
"They pulled up and stopped just short of the Arsenault (river). A single messenger was sent towards us with haste. Upon his arrival he stated that by order of Lord Overseer Berach Corsair the city is now forfeit, and under the complete jurisdiction of the Iron Coalition. There was to be a complete de-militarization of the city; all weapons were to be forfeit and destroyed, and before the next dawn that all men of fighting age were to be surrendered for imprisonment or execution, at the discretion of the Iron Gavel. I recoiled in disbelief, stating that such an edict was horrific and inhumane, if even possible to be completed within such a time. The messenger paused for a moment, studying me with a sorrowful look in his eyes. He said nothing more and left us. The following day, a hail of artillery shells descended upon our city with a ferocity that I had thought not possible. Life and structure alike were obliterated instantly. Entire high-rise domiciles were razed to the ground, their occupants inside. A city defense force was desperately amassed so as to rush the Coalition forces in a frontal assault, attempting to provide precious seconds for my citizens to evacuate to safety. During their short charge they were cut down by withering fire from waves of Onslaught Troopers. Not one single man survived. Channa grant them eternal rest for their selfless sacrifice."
As the siege of the city continued and Coalition units descended upon its streets, civilians were either captured, killed, or fled. The prisoners were put in groups of 100 men each, with four Coalition guards per group. At the beginning, there were rare instances of kindness by Coalition officers and those Coalition soldiers who secretively had sympathies to the faith, such as the sharing of food and cigarettes and permitting personal possessions to be kept. This, however, was quickly followed by unrelenting brutality, theft, and even knocking men's teeth out for gold fillings, as the common Coalition soldier had nothing but disgust and hatred for his "captives" due to the persistent and heavy propaganda of the Iron Apparat. The first atrocity—attributed to Edictant Charmain Varum —occurred when approximately 350 to 400 PVT city officers and guards under his supervision were summarily executed in the Arsenault River Massacre after they had surrendered. Varum—acting against General Toro's wishes that the prisoners be transferred peacefully—had issued clandestine orders to Coalition officers to summarily execute all PVT "captives". Although some Coalition officers ignored the orders, others were receptive to the idea of murdering captives.
During the expulsion, prisoners received little food or water, and many died. They were subjected to severe physical abuse, including beatings and torture. On the march, the "sun treatment" was a common form of torture. Prisoners were forced to sit in sweltering the direct sunlight of the Synovian Desert without helmets or other head coverings. Anyone who asked for water was shot dead. Some men were told to strip naked or sit within sight of fresh, cool water. Trucks drove over some of those who fell or succumbed to fatigue, and "cleanup crews" killed those too weak to continue, though trucks picked up some of those too fatigued to go on. Prisoners were randomly stabbed with bayonets or beaten to death. Prisoners were also forced at gunpoint to enter Blackfiend nests, where they would inevitably be horribly dismembered and eaten.
Once the surviving prisoners were a sufficient ways away from the city they were left to their own devices. poor hygiene caused dysentery and other diseases to spread rapidly. Many citizens died within the first week, most of which were the young and elderly. Military and veteran citizens were invaluable assets, as they were able to help others live off of the land while they made their way through the harsh and unforgiving desert. 
=== Casualty Estimates ===
In an attempt to calculate the number of deaths during the event on the basis of evidence, PVT Data Scribe Stanus Woolworth takes the number of PVT civilians known to have been present in Tiber Gracchus at the start of the siege, subtracts the number known to have escaped to Jyphranople and the number known to have remained within the city limits. He makes a conservative estimate of the number killed in the final days of the massacre and of the number who fled into the Synovian Desert rather than surrender to the Coalition. On this basis he suggests 60,000 to 65,000 military deaths and 500,000 to 1,000,000 civilian deaths. Other sources report death numbers much higher.