Samir Njari
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Overview
Samir Njari (b. ???? - d. ????) was the leader of a propoganda team within the Rim Worlds Republic during the lead up to the Amaris Civil War, before subsequently becoming Minister of Communications to Stefan Amaris.[1]
Biography
While serving as the head of a propoganda team in the 2760s Njari was responsible for the production of the fake Battle of Götterdämmerung, an entirely fictitious battle supposedly fought on the remote world of Gotterdammerung between twenty assorted regiments from the Rim Worlds Army and a terrorist or seditionist BattleMech division of the kind being encountered by the Star League Defense Force throughout the Magistracy of Canopus, Outworlds Alliance and Taurian Concordat. The intention was to create the illusion that the Rim Worlds Republic was as beset by the events of the Periphery Uprising as the other Periphery realms, but that the Rim Worlds Armed Forces were both loyal to the Star League and capably handling the situation.[1]
Njari's work was successful at the time; while it may not have stood up to more detailed examination in quieter times, the distraction offered by a war on three fronts simultaneously was enough that the Battle of Götterdämmerung was accepted at face value by First Lord Richard Cameron II. The deception enabled Stefan Amaris to keep the SLDF from focussing on the Rim Worlds Republic or sending troops into the Republic prior to Operation APOTHESIS, Amaris' coup that overthrew the government of the Terran Hegemony.[1]
After the coup, Njari became Minister of Communications for Stefan Amaris, with his performance compared to that of Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propoganda in Germany during World War 2 on Terra.[1]