Governments and individual citizens are warned about the risk posed by a group labelling itself the Patriotic Front of Kinitaria (Kinitar: Liga Nasariveša Kinitarii), among other names. This group has been reported as active around the town of Osaniča in northern Kinitaria. There, owing to the fragility of the existing Kinitar government, the PFK has been able to seize control of a number of towns and villages around its base of operations in Osaniča.
The board of the GTW has decided to advise against all travel to Kinitaria. All foreign citizens in Kinitaria should contact the embassy of their home nation as soon as possible or, if such consular assistance is not available, to contact an embassy of a nearby country, or one in the same region. It is the opinion of the GTW that there are no areas of Kinitaria which could be considered reasonably safe. Most international travel operators will not enter Kinitar maritime territory or airspace, however, it may be possible in limited circumstances to get a flight out.
Party flag of the PFK
The PFK also seeks to assert Kinitar military superiority over its neighbours. They place a high priority on the rebuilding of Kinitaria's armed forces, which they claim have been depleted by years of mismanagement. In their manifesto, they claim the following:
That our nation's army should have been allowed to degrade to its present level is nothing more than an indictment of Kucinič as a traitor to Kinitaria. His methods would leave Kinitaria wide open to attack by whichever foreign enemy wishes to plunder her. The Kinitar navy, once heralded as the jewel of the Secocia, has been left a mere shadow of its former self. Our air force is poorly trained, abysmally commanded, and suffers crippling shortages of both men and material [...] The only way for the nation to account for this gross incompetence of the existing order is, once the Kinitar state is back in the hands of the Kinitar nation, to create an effective deterrent to our foes. No emeny would dare to tread on our sacred soil if they knew that the consequences would be swift and severe.
It is clear that such provocative language has no place in the Atlantian Oceania of equals that the regional council would seek to create. Even more worryingly, the hard-line elements of the group have declared their ambition for Kinitaria to become a nuclear state. Kinitaria's nuclear ambitions have been shrouded in mystery ever since communist dictator Mako Levaki announced that the nation had enriched weapons-grade uranium almost a century ago. It is not believed that Kinitaria has ever launched a successful missile test, but leaders including Kučera, Nevus, and most recently, Kucinič, have toyed with the idea of making Kinitaria a nuclear power.
Technological superiority is also an important point for the PFK. As little as three decades ago, technological innovations in Kinitaria threatened to make the nation into a major technological player, at least within Atlantian Oceania. Ever since the seizure of power by the late dictator Irin Kucinič, funding for technological advances was cut sharply, partially because of the need to cut the country's alarming deficit, and also because of the need to operate the massive, crippling state bureaucracy that had arisen out of Kucinič's state-socialist policies. The PFK seeks to reverse this trend and provide the proper funding to technology companies in Kinitaria, in order that the nation might play a leading role in the region's battle for technological supremacy.
In this, and some other regards, the PFK has admitted that it takes inspiration from the Corvidae party which currently forms the government of the Inevitable Syndicate (see also GTW's articles on Corvidae). This has earned it some derision from segments of the Kinitar population, and indeed the standing government of Rosa Lisineva, who denounce the PFK as contrary to Kinitar interests on this basis alone. It should be a matter of concern to anyone who supports the propagation of democracy that the PFK is denounced on these grounds, thus opening up the field to other nationalistic organisations, instead of on the basis that their ideology is fundamentally damaging to the Kinitar people. Given the rising power of Corvidae and its aligned parties in other nations, a seizure of power by the PFK would be a disaster for human rights in Atlantian Oceania in general and Kinitaria specifically.
To see the impact that this would have on the Kinitar people, one need only look at the effect the organisation is having on the swathe of territory in northern Kinitaria that it already controls. Currently, Osaniča is the only major dwelling entirely within its control, although insurgent activity has been reported in Tiplesti, some 40 miles to the south. Obviously, it is difficult to get information out of Osaniča. The Kinitars are, historically, a particularly insular people in any case, and the flow of information out of the country has been severely limited even from its normal rate in the past few weeks.
The rump Kinitar government is obviously keen to discredit the PFK. They have released numerous statements slamming the organisation as "a band of corrupt robbers and opportunists who would take our nation back centuries," amongst other descriptions. The Kinitar government is not seen as a reliable source of information, but the fact that it has seen fit to make such a statement on multiple occasions proves that it is concerned about the impact of the PFK. Furthermore, it has proven unable or unwilling to send forces under its control to the north to directly confront the organisation, indicating that its control even over the armed forces may be slipping.
But what little information we do have out of Osaniča tells us that the PFK are enforcing a regime of strict adherence to what it says are Kinitar cultural norms. They proclaim the Kinitar Orthodox Church as the only permissible religion, although their actions are surely abominable to most conventional observers of the Orthodox faith. Anything that represents foreign interests or foreign culture is destroyed. Books are burnt. Immigrants and those of foreign stock have, according to reports, generally been left alone, although whether this is because the PFK doubts that it has the capacity to fully enforce its policies is unknown. They claim that, should they seize power, those who wished to peacefully leave the country would be able to do so.
Therefore, it becomes necessary to ask the question - is it possible that the PFK can seize power in Kinitaria? As it stands, the answer is no. They remain a small but fanatical group, isolated up in the mountains, well away from Kinitaria's major hubs. However, as the situation in Kinitaria reaches crisis point, the possibility remains for the PFK to recruit more members, acquire more weapons, make international allies, and seize more cities. They are, of course, not the only group looking to benefit from the total collapse of Lisineva's short-lived government, and many irregular groups currently active in Kinitaria - including the government forces themselves - require significant scrutiny from human rights and pro-democracy organisations throughout the region. It remains the case that the hardline approach of the PFK leaves them as one of the most dangerous groups in the emerging Kinitar conflict, and one of the greatest concerns to the international order should they take over.
