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Easter War
Indonesian troops
Indonesian troops in West Papua after crossing the Papuan Trans-oceanic Highway
Location Maluku Archipelago, Timor
Result - New Guinean military victory
Belligerents
Morning Star flag.svg New Guinea

Supported by
Usa United States
Flag of Australia svg Australia
Confederate Rebel Flag Dixie volunteers
Britain British volunteers
Flag of Indonesia Indonesia
Vietnam Flag Vietnam
Flag of Cambodia.svg Cambodia
Flag of Thailand Thai volunteers
Flag of the Philippines Filipino volunteers
Flag of Malaysia Malaysian volunteers

Supported by
Flag of Persia Persia
Kazakhstan flag Kazakhstan
File:East Turkestan-0.png Uyghurstan
Commanders
Morning Star flag.svg William Sanders
Morning Star flag.svg David O'Leery
Morning Star flag.svg Lloyd Kieth
Morning Star flag.svg Isaac Harris
Morning Star flag.svg Edward Shaw (KIA)
Morning Star flag.svg Michael Wilson
Flag of Indonesia Mohammad Hamad
Flag of Indonesia Wibowoputra Dawud
Flag of Indonesia Ahmad Bagus
Flag of Indonesia Rahman Aburizal
Flag of Indonesia Utari Abu-Kuwat
Flag of Indonesia Aburajah Yusuf
Flag of Indonesia Shariful Tirto
Vietnam Flag Phó Bu
Vietnam Flag Nghiêm Liễu Danh
Vietnam Flag Phùng Can Dảm
Vietnam Flag Trần Thông Minh

The Easter War, also known as the April War, Spring War and codenamed by the Indonesian military as Operation Swift Justice (Indonesian: Operasi Keadilan Cepat) was fought between a coalition of Southeast Asian countries led by Indonesia and Vietnam, against New Guinea from April 13, 2036 to April 30, 2036.

Of the other Southeast Asian countries involved, Cambodia entered as a belligerent. While the Malaysian government did not choose to participate this time, volunteers from Malaysia, as well as the usual southern Thailand and the Philippines joined the Indonesian effort.

Most of the fighting took place in the Maluku Archipelago and West Timor respectively, and began when Indonesian forces launched a devastating surprise attack on New Guinean-held territory in the Maluku Archipelago and Sulawesi during Easter Sunday, one of the holiest days in Christianity.

Indonesian, Cambodian and Thai-Filipino volunteer forces began with a massive successful crossing of the East Kalimantan-North Sulawesi Transoceanic Highway, and then advanced virtually unopposed through the rest of Sulawesi and then through the Sulawesi-Maluku Transoceanic Highway. 

Further south, Indonesian and Vietnamese forces overran the join the New Guinean forces stationed in West Timor.

However, New Guinean forces mobilized within four days, halted the Indonesian and Vietnamese offensives, and performed successful counteroffensives deep into Indonesia. They returned to Timor to help secure East Timor from any Indonesian invasion from the west, and drove Indonesian and Vietnamese forces out of West Timor.

The war led to tensions between the Egyptian-Persian coalition and Australia, as both political entities had made efforts to resupply their allies. In addition, Uyghurstan supplied the Indonesian military with rockets, with the Uyghurstani government declaring a "Global Zakat" for Indonesia.

China and Russia both declared their neutrality from the conflict.

In the end, the United Nations brokered a ceasefire. In the end, Indonesians were vindicated by the early successes of the Indonesian and Vietnamese forces, as they had been humiliated during World War III, the Maluku Crisis and the 2032 War of Attrition. The 2036 Manila Accords that followed afterwards returned the Maluku Archipelago, Sulawesi and West Timor to Indonesia. However, the islands near West Papua and those south of the Maluku Archipelago were given to New Guinea.

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