Sonalali War

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The Sonalali War was a military conflict between Sonalali rebels and Sagofagia. During the war the Sonalali Freedom Movement and the SAF fought for independence. 
On 14 March 2004, Dania invaded Sagofagia and forced them to give Sonalalia independence. On 18 May 2004, Sonalalia became an independent nation. The Dalanic invasion was condemned by foreign leaders and Dania recieved sanctions by the UN. Dalanic President Juan Despalas was impeached for dragging Dania in the conflict on 23 March 2004.
The Sonalali War marked the end of the Dania–Sagofagia proxy conflict a small cold war that began in 1959. 
Since 2011, the relationship between Sagofagia and Dania are generally warm under the presidency of Théo Dufresne.
== Background ==
After the fall of the People's Republic of Sagofagia in december of 1989 some parts of the country wanted independence from the democratic Sagofagia. One of those regions was Sonalalia. Sonalalia and Sagofagia were seperate colonies under the French. The Sonalali people started to rebel against the Sagofagi government.
== The War ==
=== Protests and campaign in Rutlemant ===
The Sonalali wanted independence and a group of rebels led by Armand Ardouin started riots in the streets of Savrona. The response of the Sagofagi government to arrest the rioters led to even more protests and the original protesters and new rebels formed the Sonalali Freedom Movement.
In January 1998, the SFM took over the first major city Ogniati. It later moved to the south taking Saint-Pierre and Nozieres.
=== Sagofagi interventions ===
On 8 Febuary 1998, Sagofagi forces launched a three-pronged ground attack towards Savrona. Civilian losses quickly mounted, alienating the Sonalali population and raising the hostility that they showed towards the Sagofagi forces. As a reaction Dalanic president Juan Despalas began supplying the rebels. 
Sagofagi forces forced the SFM out of Savrona in August 1998. A new capital was set up in Braloni. The Sagofagi offensive toward Braloni was halted after a rise up in Apeo. In September 1999, Apeo was back in Sagofagi control and would stay that till the end of the war. Ogniati fell in January 2000. Rutlemant and Braloni are the only major cities in rebels control.
From 2000 to 2001, Sagofagia fought a campaign to take Braloni and successfully captured the city on 3 May 2001. President Yves Beaux opened camps for captured rebels near Venet. In another campaign Sagofagia took Longo in North Sonalalia.
=== SAF ===
In October 2000, the Sonalali Alliance Force formed with Giovanni Assilio as its head. The SAF performed terroristic attacks outside of Sonalalia on several occasions mainly in Itasago and Sagradin. Assilio was killed in August 2002 and replaced by a Dalanic former soldier Martinez Helano. After that the SAF stopped with most of the attacks and joined the Freedom movement.
=== War crimes ===
During the war Sagofagia used chlorine gas on civilians. As response the UN put sanctions on Sagofagia but did not interfere in the war due to a veto by Russia and China. Dalanic president Juan Despalas was ferious by the actions of Sagofagia and wanted to interfere but he was stopped by the parliament.
=== Dalanic invasion ===
On March 14, 2004 Dalanic President Juan Despalas was preparing his army for an invasion. He excluded the Dalanic parlement from interfering and demanded the army to cross the border with Sagofagia. TV footage with Dalanic tanks crossing the border quickly spread all over the world. People were shocked to see two nations attack eachother especially after the the UN-Invasion of Iraq (2003). The UN was upset with the Dalanic interference and put sanctions on the nation. The Isladanic Community of Nations that recently stopped military coorporation were unamused and started to presure Dania aswell.
Despalas still held on to his plan and the armies meet at Libarsini a small village. It was a small battle and quickly came to an end. In Sonalalia the Rebels gained more influence and more people started joining them. On 17 March 2004 Sagofagi gave up and promised Sonalalia its independence. Deputy President of Sagofagia Alexandre Lambert said: Yves Beaux had succumbed to the pressure.
== Aftermath ==
=== Sonalali independence ===
The Republic of Sonalalia got its independence on 18 May 2004. Venerio Giorgi was elected president. Sonalalia was not allowed to the join the Isladanic Community of Nations for 25 years.
=== Aftermath in Dania ===
On 23 March 2004, only six days after Dania had won the war, Juan Despalas was impeached from office after the unauthorised invasion of Sagofagia. His successor Umberto Hurtado repaired relations with the ICN and UN. Sactions were lifted in August 2004.
Among nationalists in Dania, Despalas is still seen as a hero.
=== Aftermath in Sagofagia ===
Yves Beaux held on to power in Sagofagia, but his presidency never recovered from the loss.
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