Tambethra Kumar Returns To Vanakalam; Pledges Financial Support To Pro-Democracy Forum
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Above: Wealthy heir T. Kumar
The son of wealthy expat Tambethra Surevan, Tambethra Kumar, has returned to his birthplace in the rural north to pledge support to the Vanakalamese Pro-Democracy Forum and offer his family's financial support to the movement. This could be a major aid to the pro-democracy fighters, with the possible implications of international ties and financial backings being huge in possibly securing better equipment for their side of the fighting. Some even suggest the Tambethras may finally get their revenge as darlings of the democrats, after having had their attempts at ecocommunalism forestalled by the communists. After a major PR victory on the behalf of the anti-communists and the military in peacefully defeating the police at the siege in Srishayini, the Forum is looking for international aid so as overthrow the communist government 'via pressure and as non-violent a process as possible' - according to its leader T. Sagana, former head of the now-dissolved Independent Electoral Council.
The now officially dismissed former national armed force - renamed the "Democratic Fighters" - have moved across the north to take control of key resource centres the communists are not holding. Their advance has so far taken hold of 1/5th of the nation, and many commentators on the situation suggest that only communist support in the cities and the mountains in the centre of the nation are preventing the advance from continuing even further as of yet. The government is trying to hold the line, but is losing ground up and down the north as the communist-backed and communist-backing People's Authorities - formerly the national police force - have disintegrated in areas of strong Forum support.
The crops in much of the south have failed, and with the military swiftly gaining the loyalty of farmers in the north the PA are becoming harder and harder to properly upkeep. While the situation may look bad for the communists because of this, the communists are planning soon to call upon their massive number of supporters to form a communist army, according to inside sources. The concern there would be that they would end up with a very badly trained and unprofessional force squaring off against the properly trained and equipped military - though you should and must never doubt the popularity of the communists, and the potentially massive force they may field if these plans go forward.