Re: Kalistani Republic
Posted: Tue May 19, 2020 10:43 pm
Nationalists turn to violence
Paige seizes on weakness of State to declare "Republic of Kalistan"
Bennots requests assistance
Kaliburg, Ananto
August 1, 4758
Premier Bennots condemns violence on Kalistani Mainland and issues a formal request for Intervention
The capital city was rocked last week with four major explosions following a dramatic walk out of Nationalist Deputies who have long demanded more resolute action. Led by faction leader James Douglass Paige, the SP dissidents declared "We have had enough of the Government's dalliance on our issues. If we can not accomplish our goals in the Legislature, we will take to the streets." Paige and nearly 60 Socialist Deputies then walked out of the Assembly.
Three days later, four major bombs were detonated in the Capital, destroying the old Newspaper's "Haritza"'s offices on 4th Street, as well as severely damaging the chambers of the Constitutional Court, a major bridge over the Davon downtown, and the facade on the front of the Kalsie. The Nationalist faction, referring to themselves and the Kalistani Socialist National Militia immediately took credit, and a manifesto penned by Paige himself was issued to the National Assembly declaring open rebellion against the "Complicit Enskal traitors" who constitute the Government.
The bombings inaugurated three days of bloodshed where prominent local and District leaders had several attempts made on their lives. The Nationalists were able to murder the Brethrenist Mayor of Gendaris, and seriously injured the Governor of Suldanor's chief of staff. Reports of a new Nationalist Militia forming in Suldanor were later demonstrated to be false, and the alleged putschists were discovered to be a group of rowdy local men and women celebrating an engagement. But Paige has made it clear that more violence is to come unless the Current Government disbands immediately, and Nationalists are given control over Republican policy, and furthermore, Enskal is outlawed and the identity is suppressed.
The National Government, for its part, sat paralyzed over the last week. But today, the newly inaugurated Premier Joaquin Bennots-Hernandez issued the following statement:
"The security situation in Enskal Estatua/Kalistan has deteriorated, and the National Government will not be able to stand up security forces fast enough. We therefore, in coordination with the proposals of our emigre community in Eroncourt, request formal security assistance from the Royal Union of Lourenne. We believe that this assistence, in force, will allow us to both avoid deteriorating relations between our two nations at a time when Kalistan is weakest, and will allow us some breathing space to reorganize our own National security forces. It is our belief that Lourenne can provide security forces in such a strength as to both protect Kalistan as well as prevent further destruction of Kalistani and foreign property and life."
The Premier mentioned that he believes that Lourenne will accept this offer as an alternative to war, which will most certainly be costly for Lourenne but devastating to an unprepared Kalistan. "We have been circulating diplomats in the Lourenne Court for more than a year, and more than a few of them have gained some confidence in the Lourennaise Government. We believe this solution to our problems will provide the best outcome, given the range of equally terrible options we face currently." A last minute chartered flight from Kaliburg to Lourenne carried staff from the Foreign Ministry as Kaliburg and the Mainland brace for another round of terror in the immediate term.