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Re: Kazulian News Service

Postby Dregs » Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:27 pm

Kazulian Army Mobilized
Advance on Thorgerd announced to force the surrender of VPK ministers to Kazulian law


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VPK refusal to surrender the capital or leave the old Parlimentert has lead to a military advance from Skalm

The FAF, Communist militia and now official army of the 3079 government, has blockaded roads and fortified towns in southern Kazulia, certain that their refusal to abide by recent legislation in the Skalm government will lead to a government backlash. The Kazulian army, rearmed by millions poured into private contractors by the RFF government, has begun to move south to bring the Hulstrian and Dranish dominated states back under central control. Large numbers from the army and police have already deserted, swearing their alligience to the 3079 government.

However, old RFF links to the military, reinforced by their heritage in the 2600s party the NFL and the governing body of the NUC have reinforced loyalty in the upper structures of the military, who have formally taken control from the police on enforcement of the law in the north.

The RFF is determined to disband the FAF and the LO, the union who finance the VPK and FAF. As The Head of State James Forsyth has stated, this shall be done by any means necessary.
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Re: Kazulian News Service

Postby Vänster » Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:56 pm

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FAF mobilises as parliament passes new emergency law

The VPK-controlled parliament in Thorgerd has passed by 478 votes to 3 a new emergency bill giving sweeping powers to the revolutionary government. Although restricting several important freedoms the bill is widely seen as a necessary step at a time when Kazulia's entire democratic system faces being crushed under the boot of fascist tyranny. Some of the measures included are as follows:
* The banning of all newspapers and media outlets sympathetic to the RFF.
* New powers of arrest and detention for anyone suspected of terrorism or crimes against the state.
* Increased state control over the economy to ensure economic output is geared as much as possible towards the war effort.
* The revolutionary cabinet headed by Maria Svensson and Göran Lundqvist to be given new powers of decree so as to be able to bypass parliament in times of emergency.
* A compulsory military draft to be introduced allowing anyone with the appropriate skills to be conscripted into FAF.

Also being discussed by parliament is a new electoral system which would give seats not just to registered parties but also to various pressure groups such as unions (primarily the communist LO and anarchist SAC) and feminist or environmentalist campaign groups. These organisations would appear on a separate electoral list and would hold slightly under half of the seats under the proposed new system. According to the government such a system would be more democratic in that it would allow people to choose from a greater range of organisations to represent them and it would also make it harder for any one party to dominate the system in future.

FAF meanwhile has made a number of important military advances. As well as consolidating its control over Hent and Kelvon FAF is attempting to move into southern Dreton and to take more and more of Flindar in order to secure the capital Thorgerd. According to FAF the brave forces of the revolution are meeting stiff resistance from a number of well-armed pro-RFF army units however already tens of thousands of working-class soldiers have joined the revolution and it appears that many of those who have not have been drugged, terrorised or killed by their wealthy, fascist officers.

President Maria Svensson has called upon the factory workers to step up armaments productions as fast as possible so as to ensure FAF is not left under-equipped in the face of an RFF which is clearly being armed with the support of fascists in other countries. She has also issued a request for assistance from sympathetic parties and governments in other nations and has announced that new weapons shipments should arrive shortly to boost FAF defences.

In other news top RFF figure Peter Jaeg has been sentenced to 14 years in a maximum security prison for the crimes of incitement to terrorism, fraud, the dissemination of hate speech and treason. Jaeg must serve at least 8 years, the judge has ruled, in a sentence which will be interpreted by many as a warning to all others engaged in terrorist or counter-revolutionary activities.

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Re: Kazulian News Service

Postby Dregs » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:48 pm

Kazulian Army drives for Thorgerd
On the eve of Peter Jaeg's incarceration, military forces have lunged for the capital


Reports have come of full-scale shelling of FAF positions as Kazulian Army tanks, far greater in number than originally thought, smashed through rebel communist positions along the western borders between the 3082 and 3079 governments. FAF blockades and checkpoints, complacent after over a year of standstill and government silence, were swept aside by unprecedented Kazulian-on-Kazulian violence.

The Kazulian army, moving forwards supported by aircraft, artillery and tanks bought from multiple private military organisations, is far better armed than their communist counterparts. Although smaller in number, including only regular army forces rather than paramilitary and armed citizens in the south, entire FAF volunteer units have thrown down their weapons after becoming encircled by the brutal blitzkreig of the plains around Thorgerd.

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The shock-and-awe of the massed artillery and tanks thrown forward by the Kazulian forces have left international observers and national journalists stunned. After months of silence, no one had expected the sudden assault.

Thrown into disarray, with only half a year until the expected re-election of the 3082 government, the FAF have been forced into retreat. However, the initial resistance was not the pitched battle the Kazulian Army has seemed to expect. Die-hard communists, raised in a communist state and fiercely loyal to the regime, have fortified every village, small town and woodland between the north and Thorgerd, forcing armoured divisions to bypass them entirely. The resulting pockets of resistance have made supply difficult, forcing the Kazulian army into an all-or nothing assault. Without supplies, the assault must either crush resistance or capture the capital before the election.

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FAF units which attempted to fight back against the advance found themselves faced with unexpected scale of firepower, carpet bombings of the plains resulted in walls of flames. The Kazulian army seems to be determined to terrify the south into submission.
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Re: Kazulian News Service

Postby Dregs » Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:06 am

The Situation Report: Kazulia, December 3087
Kazulian Army advances on the capital of Thorgerd threaten to cut the capital off.

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Above, the area of conflict shown, with relative positions of power of each government in their colours. Also, the defensive lines of the FAF in November and December 3087, forming a defensive bulge around the capital as the November lines are overrun.
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Re: Kazulian News Service

Postby Dregs » Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:55 pm

The Situation Report: Kazulia, March 3088
First action outside the capital province as the Thorgerd panics


Just three months after the Kazulian Army launched it's sudden assault on Thorgerd it shows no sign of slowing down. Very few elements of the swiftly erected December fortifications survived the massed firepower of RFF armoured elements, swept aside as the army bore down on the capital. However, the FAF, aware that they are unable to match the raw firepower of the Kazulian army on the plains around the capital have changed tactics. Withdrawing to the cities and rivers, new fortifications have been thrown up where the Army's armour cannot continue their rolling advance.

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Faced with retreat or destruction, the FAF has been prudent and withdrawn to the more easily defendable rivers and streets of the cities. However, lack of commitment to the plains has let the Kazulian army sweep around them, threatening to cut off the cities of the interior from the southern stronghold of the FAF.

However, the capital province of Flindar has not been the only place to see action over the past month. Although the majority of the contested battles have occurred there, other provinces have begun to feel the effects of civil war. Swift-moving elements of the Kazulian Army have swept into Hent, hundreds of miles south of the capital, with the apparent aim of the city of Gna. Loss of the city would province the 3082 with a strategic advantage over the plains and possible chance of advancing on the rich ports of the south. Realising this, paramilitary FAF elements and a rogue army battalion, initially marching north to relieve Thorgerd, turned around and formed a defense encircling the advance. Without slow-moving artillery or aircraft support, the assault ground to a halt just 15 miles from Gna.

February also saw the first advances by the FAF. Strongholds in the south east gathered their forces and stuck north towards the RFF base of Skalm. The unexpected assault caught the Kazulian Army by surprise, forcing them to fall back to defensive positions around the mountainous cities of Dreton. The RFF seems to be responding in panic at the sheer manpower of the advance bolstered by Hulstrian paramilitary forces sneaking over the border to aid their cousins of southern Kazulia. Success could also completely cut off the forces involved in the battle for Gna, leaving them with no line of supply or support from the northern strongholds of the RFF.
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Re: Kazulian News Service

Postby Dregs » Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:47 pm

Kazulian Army Advance slows as Front Stabilises
Gains in the last year have been small as the first pitched battle of the war occurs around Sutherland


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The KA and FAF seem locked in a north/south division

The Kazulian Army failed in it's objectives last year of capturing Thorgerd before the new elections of the 3079 government exactly one year ago today. Predictably the election was won overwhelmingly by the VPK, but ministers left their swearing in ceremony to see a terrifying sight before them. In the months of the summer of 3089, ten years after they had first taken office, the Kazulian army had broken the defending forces on the flank of Thorgerd and were rolling past the city en masse.

The ensuing "Autumn Offensive" swept down the western border of Kazulia, surrounding the VPK-held cities of Krigsvatn River. Only halted just north of Hafleikn as 3080 rolled around, it left the three major strongholds of western VPK power completely surrounded, facing assault and barrage from all directions. However, six months on, neither city seems to be falling.

The ill-fated third army assault on Gna, which would have turn FAF defensive lines in two, was surrounded and destroyed utterly by the fifth and seventh armies, having turned to the FAF forces in the eve of revolution. The land around Lake Grontius is now known as the tank graveyard for the sheer number of armour left destroyed or abandoned as the army poured back towards Ulfmaerr. Hasty defences were thrown up in the passes around the mountain city as the saviours of Gna closed in in the winter of 3079.

North, the FAF advance continued, stopped just short of Drenton cities by KA reservists sent from Skalm. The deadlock in the mountainous passes and forests has disolved into disjointed clashes, guerrilla retreats and sporadid advances. However, FAF forces, with vast superiority in numbers, seem to be gradually pushing towards the defensively vital town of Borgny.

As the spring of 3090 came around, and KA forces prepared for a massive assault on the cities of the west, the FAF saught to re-open the eastern front. A sudden all-out assault towards Borgny and on the now layers of defences of Ulfmaerr surged forwards.

Initial advances in March through to May came to a stuttering halt as the rise of summer allowed KA armour to move south from the capital. Horror stories of entire squads simply run down by tanks as they attempted to block their path were heard. A surrounding effort about Borgny was thrown back, retreating and injured fleeing back into what was swiftly becoming known by both forces as the "Eastern Bulge". However, as lines returned to those of winter, both forces found themselves stalemated once more by July.

August brought a new event in the civil war. The Fifth and Ninth army, releaved from the siege of Ulfmaerr by Hulstrian irregulars, moved north to attempt to flank the KA defensive line at Suthrland. At the same time, the Second and Eighth armies, loyal to the KA, were moving south to relieve Ulfmaerr. The two forces, completely without ariel support or any real information of opposition movements, stumbled into eachother at Suthrland. The battle of Suthrland was joined.

Two army units, nearly equally matched, met at the border of the mountains with the plains. A month later, both are tightly locked in a strategic and tactical deadlock, the battle could very well decide the war.
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Re: Kazulian News Service

Postby Dregs » Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:12 am

AUDA LANDS
The Fascist Private Army has made it's interests clear, landing at Lamond


The summer 3080 deadlock has been broken. In an unprecedented event in Kazulia, international interests have been involved. With what initial reports say number over two million armed forces, AUDA, the fascist international private army, has landed and smashed aside the flank of the western FAF forces. Joined by the largest elements of the KA forces they have swept across the plains, leaving the FAF in full retreat by November.

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The involvement of AUDA could spell the end of FAF resistance in the west

KA forces also finally secured the city of Katla in an all-out advance on the city in October 3080. This was followed only a week later by the FAF forces in Thorgerd managing to link up with those in Ashilde. This linked front has proved unwavering in the face of KA aerial and artillery bombardment. Apparently over 200km of concrete bunkers and walls have been placed around the two cities over the last two years of civil war. Tanks have become useless and the bombardment have left few gains.

In the east, the battle for Suthrland took a turn for the worse for FAF forces, the lightly equipped fifth and ninth, unable to repair lost vehicles and running critically low on fuel, began to fall back as the first snows fell on the eastern front. AUDA fuel and infantry advances finally broke their moral, and in december, just two weeks ago, they broke and fled back into FAF strongholds to the south and east. Already FAF reservists are advancing to secure the feeble front.

Further north, the KA defences around their Drenton strongholds finally fell. Borgny and Elle have become warzones with FAF forces flooding in from the south. This danger further north has resulted in the loyalist second and eighth, fresh from their victory at Suthrland, unable to march further south, their supply lines no longer secure. As a result, the defence of Ulfmaerr has begun to shrink, slowly being battered back by sheer force of manpower.

However, it is the western front which has international observers captivated, rather than the closer events in the east. The KA advance, once slowed almost a year ago, is now in full advance once more. AUDA, one of the strongest international forces in the world, has made use of it's startling manpower and resorces to reduce FAF resistance to more of a nuisance than a serious enemy. With Idunn and Hafleikr the only obstacles to the complete collapse of the western front, the east would only be a step away for the united forces.

Far more shocking is the brutality of the AUDA forces. Drawn from fascist, authoritarian and racial supremacist forces worldwide, it has stuck with no hesitation against both civilian and military targets.

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AUDA has simply shot all FAF prisoners they have captured. This is becoming a war of no limits

Using their famous "no-prisoners" strategy of horror-warfare, honed from the ethnic cleansings of Hutori, which some international observers believe AUDA forces to be veterans of, the force has left tens of thousands of dead lying in the lush fields of the south. Hulstrians have begun to begin mass emigration across the border into Hulstria as news arrived that KA forces, under dictate of the RFF, have given AUDA permission to drive the entire ethnicity out of the south, to eliminate RPK support there. AUDA has taken the task to heart, shooting those unwilling to leave and burning down entire villages along the river. Many of these rumours have reached both fronts, but they are impossible to verify and impossible to support, leaving international human rights commissions unable to involve themselves as of yet, even as relief lands in Idunn.
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Re: Kazulian News Service

Postby Dregs » Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:31 pm

AUDA Swings the Tide
FAF-controlled land continues to shrink in the face of a united onslaught


Things in Kazulia look bleak for the liberal communist RPK and their paramilitary FAF. The oncestable, even matched front with the KA controlled by the RFF has swung with the arrival and march of AUDA. With western forces destroyed or retreating over the border into Hulstria, the FAF has been forced to redirect forces from the seige of Ulfmaerr to face the massing legions sweeping in from western Kazulia.

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Stars have been added to show the major battles ongoing as summer of 3090 begins to come around

Ulfmaerr, moral bolstered by the ongoing seige and the approach of friendly forces, has rallied even as the first line of defences finally fell to the FAF. With FAF forces now within the mountain city, they have become bogged down in house-to-house fighting with the elite third army, which had previously been defeated in the assault on Gna early in the war.

However, in the face of a war being lost, the FAF has had it's advances. Unable to advance for fear of their supply lines, the second and eighth armies at Suthrland have been locked in battle only 10km south of the city for nearing half a year, unable to advance but also too strong to defeat. The result has been the survival of the eastern bulge, where FAF forces continue to launch attacks dangerously near the RFF capital of Skalm.

Similarily in the west, Thorgerd and Ashilde have held strong, shrugging off repeated attempts to breach the impenetrable defences surrounding them. Gna, once a primary target for the RFF has become the centre of the FAF military and has been able to lead a counter attack against joined AUDA and KA forces advancing from the west, momentarily halting their advance in march. Thorhall, the command centre for the FAF has sent requests for aid over the borders to Hulstria and Dranland, pointing to alleged cruelty and killings of Hulstrian and Dranish ethnics by AUDA and KA forces in the south. The river Hent, forming the border between Hulstria and Kazulia, has become the refuge for many FAF forces defeated in the west, and Thorhall hopes to rally them and lead attacks across the border to disrupt the KA advance.
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Re: Kazulian News Service

Postby Dregs » Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:40 pm

Talk of International Intervention Mounts as the FAF Collapses
AUDA and the KA begin to crush what remains of communist resistance


The Winter of 3092 will be long remembered for being the season the communists lost the war. After the losses of 3090 and 3091 following the intervention of AUDA, things went from bad to worse in 3092. In a massive offensive in October, FAF resistance crumbled outside of their military powerbase of Gna, where the last rebel army elements are still holding out. FAF active personnel have been estimated at only 3 million, facing up against 5 million KA operational forces and 2 million AUDA forces, leaving them for the first time in the war, dramatically outnumbered.

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The outlook is poor for FAF forces as their controlled territory crumbles under united fascist firepower

The KA has finally halted the active seige of Thorgerd and Ashira, confident that a defeat of all FAF forces outside of the capital will result in the surrender of the VPK.

However, talk of international action has mounted as the battles spill over the borders of Kazulia. FAF forces, freshly defeated in the south, have poured over the border of the Hent river into northern Hulstria. Striking back over the river with artillery barrages, rocket attacks and sporadic raids has goaded AUDA into counter attacks. Artillery and aircraft have bombarded the northern Hulstrian countryside where the FAF has been launching attacks from.

Even as violence spreads south, the Hulstrian parliament has been openly discussing intervention. Initial calls for intervention followed word of violence against ethnic Hulstrians in the south, who had been major supporters of the FAF and VPK. However, word of such violence has halted as the KA has secured it's grip over the south, ending reports from emerging. Trigunia, in support of it's sovereign in Hulstria, has already begun to move naval forces to the coast of Kazulia. However, the route is not clear. AUDA naval forces, still active from the landings which swept aside the last major resistance in the southwest, have fired warning shots, warning Trigunia that any attempt to enter Kazulian waters will result in violence.

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AUDA naval forces are primarily transports, but any serious naval confrontation may prompt second thoughts in Trigunia against involvement
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The Royal Kazulian Chronicle

Postby Eryk » Sat Aug 06, 2011 9:41 pm

Today, The Royal Kazulian Chronicle has opened its doors to inform the people of Terra of the whereabouts of the Kingdom of Kazulia. In the name of His Majesty, other Royal Officials and the Kazulian Council of Ministers, we wish you happy reading of our Chronicle.
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