Imilur Jakhai

Imilur Jakhai (Koxori: Ímilur Jakhai /ˈi.mi.lʊɾ ˈja.xaɪ/; 9 November 1969 – 12 October 2020) was a Koxoriek war criminal and former politician. He served as Mayor of Jetharim from 1997 to 2002, Mayor of Hamezurakhel from 2002 to 2008 and Minister of Defence for Koxor from May to August 2020.

Early life and politics
Jakhai was born to middle-class parents in Jetharim, Koxor on the 9th November 1969. He entered politics at an early age, serving as a member of Jetharim Regional Council from 1994. He became Mayor of Jetharim on the 7th June 1997 after defeating his opponent Nelir Mokhar in all three rounds of the election. The Koxoriek Republican Party accepted him into their ranks in 2000, and he ran for Mayor of Hamezurakhel in that year's election. The incumbent Mayor, Jara Tarnatekh, won by only 2% of the vote. Jakhai ran again in 2002 and won, proving to be a successful but controversial figure over his six-year rule. He lost the 2008 mayoral election to Zemeti Olaj, at that time an emerging political figure who had a vastly different ideology to Jakhai. When Olaj became First Minister in 2019, Jakhai, having lost many of his more important positions, immediately declared his support, though he despised Olaj's Minister of Defence Kalakhat Rokhin.

Minister of Defence
Though Rokhin was a much-liked figure, his policies were more effective in a peacetime situation and his strategies in the first month of the Kaonashian-Hagstonian War were unpopular. Under heavy stress, Rokhin resigned in May 2020. Jakhai was appointed as Minister for Defence by Zemeti Olaj, which proved to be a controversial move as Jakhai's right-wing ideology upset Olaj's Humanist government. His first move as a strategist was to initiate the 'First Push', which was effective in pushing back the advancing Kaonashian forces. Jakhai's military decisions were brutally effective, and by the beginning of June, Koxor and her allies were beginning to win the war. However, throughout this time, Jakhai had been secretly sending teams of elite soldiers to arrest his old political enemies, including Jara Tarnatekh and Rezaxu Jeran.

Jakhai's popularity began to run out with the beginning of the first ceasefire, as he tried to withdraw from the truce on various occasions, saying that the war could only be won through attacking the enemy. After trying to overrule Zemeti Olaj's decision at a peace conference on Stella Island, Kaonashia, Jakhai was sacked as Minister for Defence.

Arrest and disappearance
After his dismissal, Jakhai moved back to Jetharim to try to regain his positions. On the 21 August, the day after the end of the war, an anonymous source contacted the Koxoriek police force and told them of secret plans hidden within Jakhai's home in the Narilat district of the city. The house was searched and records of orders given by Jakhai to the secret police to arrest his enemies were found, among other incriminating evidence. Jakhai was arrested the same day after returning from a peace celebration. His trial attracted international attention, with the public in uproar and riots beginning all over the country. He was sentenced as a war criminal for using both the state of war and his position for his own gain and was sent to the high-security prison on Kosorus. However, the Wolfstar-B3 transport vessel Pride of Hera that was carrying him disappeared outside of high Laraniem orbit and was not seen again until October.

On the 10 October 2020, a Koxoriek search vessel found the Pride of Hera in orbit around an uncharted planet in the Iter Magnam system. Jakhai and his associate Telak Nurmez were still alive inside, with most of the crew and prisoners having been killed by a radiation leak from the hyperdrive. They were taken to Kosorus to await trial.