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Independence Protests in Alqanian Antarctica
Topic Started: May 1 2012, 11:27 AM (60 Views)
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Alqanian Antarctica Daily, Cocktown Protests erupted today around Alqanian Antarctica following a Royal Decree confirming the establishment of the Protectorate of Vara as "an independent state under Alqanian military and diplomatic protection".

Vara is the area that was under Alqanian occupation at the end of the Hayran Conflict. The Royal Navy's 2nd Expeditionary Fleet under the command of Admiral James A Hunter had colonised an area on a newly discovered continent named Oilean. The Rogue Nation of Hayran claimed territory bordering the Alqanian Colony and started a genocide against the continent's native population. Natives fled across the border into Alqanian territory - the border had not yet come under full protection of Her Majesty's Armed Forces - and the Hayran military violated the Queendom's territorial sovereignty by following the natives and killing them on Alqanian soil, on which the foreign aggressor then remained in occupation.

Her Majesty's Armed Forces swiftly responded, resulting in annihilation of those Hayran troops that had invaded the Colony and after the territory had been secured, the Alqanian victors proceeded to secure the Hayran area closest to the border in a retaliatory occupation. Hayran officials protested the legitimate response and claimed they were not at war with the Queendom, but with the natives. Admiral Hunter demanded Hayran to surrender, to compensate the Queendom for their acts of war and to hand over to the Queendom those people that had been responsible for the Hayran genocide against the natives.

Instead of accepting these just ultimata, Hayran forces mobilised to invade a third party's territory with the goal of continuing the genocide. Her Majesty's Armed Forces swiftly responded by extending the occupied zone to now cover a substantial part of the Hayran territorial claim. The Hayran barbarians mobilised against yet another state and two other nations with territorial claims on the continent attacked and occupied territory under Hayran claims. This brought about the unconditional surrender of the Rogue Nation and their complete withdrawal of all forces and claims from the continent.

In the aftermath, the two other occupying forces greedily grabbed the lands under their respective occupation. Admiral Hunter, a compassionate naval officer, humanitarian and philanthropist, heard the cries of the Oilean natives that had against all odds survived the Hayran genocide. Worrying that there may be others like Hayran, Hunter generously offered the natives Her Majesty's protection. An offer of naturalisation into Alqanian citizenship was extended to all natives and the occupied zone was declared an Alqanian Protectorate, where the natives would rule themselves but remain under the Queendom's protection.

The Royal Decree constitutes the Queen's confirmation of this arrangement, a unique one in Alqanian history. In Wilborg there was much rejoicing, but in Cocktown and elsewhere in Alqanian Antarctica, emotions ran in the opposite direction.

"It's not fair!" cried a Cocktown protester. "While we civilised, upstanding citizens in Antarctica must remain subjects of a Queen far away, who's never even been here!, these savages get to live in freedom and have that freedom protected by the same Queen's army. And who pays for it all? Us taxpayers, that's who!"

"The situation in Oilean is completely different", Her Majesty's Chancellor Wilhelmina Black said in response to the criticism. "These natives have just survived a foreign power taking their land and attempting to exterminate them. They are in desperate need of our help and protection. Their land is not part of our territorial claims and frankly it sickens me to hear opinions that we should make our help dependant on these brave people giving us their home."

The protests have been peaceful and the police reports only minor incidences. But some protesters threaten to stay on the streets: "We'll be here as long as the Queen treats us worse than savages", one of them asserted.
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