Nochoy Dain: Dogs of War

The war with Sankofa was inevitable following their defeat twenty years in the past. Why they were defeated changed with each speaker, but agreed they were blameless, it was the opposing governments and their fifth columnists that had stabbed them in the back and then bled them dry in repatriations.It was bound to happen that someone charismatic would join an opposing political party to attempt to defeat the government in an election by mobilising the popular vote by playing on the feelings of hopelessness that had gathered around the people.The Great Khan had watched with a sense of foreboding as the thugs pretended they were civilised enough to enter Sankofa parliament as regional representatives.His concern was proved correct when Sankofa began its march into Pele with its eyes on recreating the Grand Sankofa region to govern the land between the two great seas.Offering his military to assist the western forces to push the Sankofa back was at first rejected by the peace council and the Great Khan surmised that the rejection was a manifestation of their prejudice of the Asiatic people.Still the Sankofa had to be defeated.Pele and Nord Pele were two of the new countries created by the armistice drawn up at the end of the last war and the Sankofa leadership was determined to remove these from the map as this was stolen land and theirs by right.Corinth was one of the old-world countries that felt bonded to support the new countries and their right to govern without fear.When Sankofa crossed Pele borders it was an act of war that had to be answered.