Thread:Liquid Ink/@comment-5365119-20140214071409/@comment-24480594-20140214192919

It seemed to me that all wars are chaotic, and that armies dont seem to care all that much about civilians. The insurgents would, in my opinion, kill pretty much anyone seeing how they are likely not as disciplined, and they are not attempting to truly take over East Africa, but to devastate them so they cant fight back, and to see France's reaction. East African Alliance probably wouldnt have very many civilian kills, because if they did, they would be killing their own people; however, maybe they simply do not know who are insurgents and who are innocents, and that would definitely lead to events like the My Lai Massacre. In my story, they killed civilians mainly because they were all people who worked on the ship, but i would not have put it above them to rape and pillage, nor would i put it above the African armies, though they are probably more disciplined, and might not consider the people they capture spoils of war (plus, as i stated above, this is on their own land/space, and the civilians are their own).

Although, this raises a question; Do the insurgents have land? Are they simply a rebel group living in the territory of the EAA, or is it like in the American civil war, where a very defined section of territories separated from the nation? Or is it both, like in Vietnam? I assumed that it was simply the first one, although thinking about it now, it doesnt seem like a war, simply a bunch of terrorists inside the nation, trying to overthrow the government.