Cleansing PeriodTawaryan Targets "Counterrevolutionary Plots"January 4484Barmenia's new leader Levon Tawaryan has proclaimed a
"Cleansing Period". The development came following the Government's revelation of a failed assassination attempt on him. Four junior officers tried to kill him during a military parade in Sekhmet. Upon "sharp questioning", the four all revealed that they were part of a wider "counter-revolutionary" conspiracy aimed at reversing the Social Revolution to the benefit of what Tawaryan called, "foreign powers, traitors, domestic vulture capitalist leeches and other filth."
Tawaryan reviewing troops in SekhmetThe Government has declared a state of emergency over the entire country and boosted the power and capacities of the security forces in order to carry out the so-called Cleansing Project. Civil society organisations have expressed concern over the latest developments and have called on the Government to minimise any effect of this new process on Barmenistani civil liberties.
BSNP Sweeps RCC ElectionsTawaryan's Barmenistani Social Nationalist Party has won all of the seats in the new legislature, the Revolutionary Command Council. The party ran mostly uncontested, the few opposition candidates who registered to run, generally dropped out due to what one claimed to be "violent persuasion by regime supporters". The Information Ministry rejected allegations of coerced withdrawals as "counterrevolutionary propaganda."
The newly elected legislature has dived into its work enthusiastically - it has conferred the ancient title of Shfet (Shophet) to Interim President Levon Tawaryan. The title which translates to "judge" originates from the Qedarite (OOC: Phoenician) colonial era. The RCC has also affirmed its intention to follow through with the party's ambitious "Social Economy" plans which economists have described as a
"Kodonist hodgepodge of public investment, industrial protection and populist spending splurges."