The Great Rebellion of Tartarystan was one of the largest and bloodiest revolutions in recent history. It was notorious for depopulating the entire country of Tartarystan of more than nine-tenths of it's population and for the intense ethnic cleansing that every side practiced.

Prelude to Rebellion

Hundreds of members from the People's War Group mounted a failed assassination of the Emperor after the National Assembly passed laws even more virulently racist than the ones already in place. Every single member in the assassination attempt was either killed, or captured and extra-judicially executed by the Imperial Guard, much to the chagrin of human rights organizations. 273 members of the People's War Group perished along with 17 deaths for the Imperial Guard and 40 members injured.

In an emergency session, the National Assembly voted 834 - 74 - 92 to order the military to reform launch "reprisal" strikes against several cities the People's War Group drew their membership and support from. This bill was surprisingly vetoed by the Emperor, but the veto was overridden given the overwhelming consensus. Tartarystan drew condemnation from human rights organizations when the Imperial Tartar Army (ITA) attacked the cities of Mohenjo, Daro, Hoysola, Maurya, Madho, and Bahadur with chemical weapons. These six cities were fairly similar in most ways. They were all mostly Indo-Aryan speaking, had no Altaic citizens, and were mostly ghettoes. According to local sources, the Imperial Tartar Army assaulted these cities with VX gas, mustard gas, hydrogen cyanide, sarin, soman, among with many other chemical weapons. ITA forces immediately followed it up with artillery strikes, as well as napalm launches that burned all six cities. Most survivors were shot trying to escape though a few escaped after hiding in the wreckage and were lucky enough not to get torched. Urban planners have moved to the burnt ashes of these cities are rebuilding "new" cities for the burgeoning Altaic population as Tartarystan followed a strict system of urban planning.

Absolutely disgusted by blatant expansionism, ethnic cleansing, and Imperial violations of human rights, various underground revolutionary movements, Indo-Aryan, Sino-Tibetan, Japanese, Korean, and Dravidian all came together in the United Revolutionary Alliance, a five-way alliance against Imperial authority. The URA immediately launched huge revolutions in the countryside.

The War Begins

In the first stage of the war, Imperial forces were routed almost without a flight. The Imperial Army fled the vast territory of Tartarystan to only a few fortified cities. With more than ninety percent of the country under their control, the United Revolutionary Alliance declared victory and decided to redistribute the land formally owned by Altaic aristocrats to the indigenous peoples who comprised the five nations of the United Revolutionary Alliance. However, disputes and historical ethnic tensions went over the boiling point as each side demanded a ridiculous amount of land and disfranchisement of the other five. Dravidian forces started with the massacre of tens of thousands of Indo-Aryan civilians, and the People's War Group responded in kind! Another war had begun.

Second Phase of the War

In the second phase of the war, Dravidian forces fought with Indo-Aryan forces in a war of racial extermination. Korean and Japanese minorities immediately commenced massacring each other in their multiethnic and bilingual section of the country. Sino-Tibetan forces carefully exterminated the small minorities in their segment of the country and defended it ruthlessly. The brutality of the Second Phase of the War was unmatched by anything in Imperial history. In the end, Indo-Aryan forces prevailed against Dravidian and forced the surviving Dravidians to join them. However, both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian military forces had taken a million losses each, reducing the combined army to barely above 1.5 million fighting men. Korean and Japanese forces completely decimated each other with their fighting. Sinic forces quickly dropped upon both forces and utterly crushed both, forcing the reminder of both to join them. Sinic forces controlled about 1.8 million enemy forces as they entered the next stage of the war.

Third Phase of the War

Indo-Aryan and Sino-Tibetan forces brutally massacred each others civilian populations but left their respective militarises relatively safe. After the population of both populations collapsed completely, the two armies met in force. In a brutal battle that left 500,000 Indo-Aryan forces dead, and 300,000 Sino-Tibetan forces, unifying forces on both sides seized control of each army and combined them into one fighting force that controlled the entire countryside of Tartarystan. After replenishing most of their losses, they controlled about 4.36 million troops in total to face the true enemy, the Imperial government. The infighting has absolutely torn apart revolutionary populations and military power. Four out of every five murdered civilians died in the second and third phases of the war, most of the rest in the last.

Battle of Tataria Magna

The combined army of 4.36 million members of the New United Revolutionary Alliance faced off against a newly reinvigorated army of 720,000 Imperial Altaic troops and reserves. In the most climatic battle of the war, the NURA threw its soldiers and revolutionaries at the major capital of Tataria Magna. The Imperials used every trick they could muster. The NURA had no air or armored support and resorted to mass human wave assaults. The Imperials used mines, machine gun emplacements, air strikes, artillery, armored support, strong tactics, and usage of many fixed defences to wreak terrible losses on the NURA. In addition, the Imperials were unhesitant to use chemical weapons against masses of NURA troops. At the end of the battle, huge swarms of NURA troops lay dead, dying, or soon to be executed by Imperial forces. Imperial forces suffered around seventy-thousand dead and around a hundred and seventy thousand wounded, a number representative of about a third of the entire army. NURA forces were even worse. 3.4 million NURA troops had died in the sustained attacks on Tataria Magna.

Last Phase of the War

The Imperial Army sallied out of its fortified city, and with heavy use of artillery, air power, armored power, and chemical weapons, systemically cleansed the countryside of all non-Altaic (which is pretty much the entire countryside) life. Civilians were murdered efficiently and cruelly with chemical weapons and buried in one of what would become tens of thousands of mass graves. Rebels were exterminated without quarter as all surviving non-Altaic forces fled Tartarystan madly. Some stayed behind and were not killed, but the vast majority perished in the cleansing of the countryside. Though the Imperial Army was not aiming to exterminate all non-Altaic populations, their complete disregard for collateral damage had the exact same effect. With the countryside cleansed of all rebels and human life, with Altaic citizens streaming to the new "frontier" and colonizing these now unpopulated lands, and with fighting generally over, the government of Tartarystan declared the rebellion OVER. The difference between the twelfth and thirteenth censuses can clearly show the demographic shift in the extermination or expulsion of almost all non-Altaic populations.