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| The Allied States of Zambiwa | Feb 26 2015, 08:24 PM Post #1 |
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The market place was hot and stuffy. Small market stalls were filled to the brim with merchandise, breads, meats, and different tools. On the corner there was a little girl helping her mother knit small pot handles. This was the way of most rural Zambiwans, the marketplace grind and the smell of salt water bearing over the crowds was as common as school was for the children in the cities. Education for rural Zambiwans was a rare commodity, most could not afford to attend school, or lived to far away from the school to walk, or use a car. In this way, the children learned something other than math equations and the proper way to write. They learned street sense, the trade of their father's, and the know-how to fend for themselves. The street was full of patrons, all carrying their purchases around in small carts made specifically to maneuver through the seemingly endless wave of people. Intense arguments about the freshness of a fruit, or the craftsmanship of a homemade knife in comparison to price were heard through the thousands of different conversations going on at once. The marketplace was a buzzing metropolis in the middle of a rural savanna in eastern Zambiwa. The market was surrounded by small homes, built by the same company, and in the same way. They were pale brown with shingled roofs and bright red doors. Some foreigners might say that the town was beautiful, a quaint and timeless gem in the sparse Zambiwan wilderness. But the civilians would say nothing more, than that it was their home, and that it was all they needed to survive. It was not fancy, not a vacation, but a living. The day had gone by normally, until the moment just before the pin was pulled from the grenade. The live bomb hit the ground, and the first person to notice was a small boy, about 3 or 4 years in age. Turning to his father who was in the middle of a stern bartering match with a customer, he yelled. That was the last sound before the blast. The yell of the boy was soon drowned out by the screams of the patrons far enough away to not have been hurt. Gunshots were next. From the coast, the men came from the fishing boats, storming into the marketplace, killing patrons and vendors alike, slashing down the market stalls, breaking merchandise, pottery, art work. When it was over, the market had been left to rubble. Debris and lost hopes filled the streets. Cries were the only thing left, almost as if they were the echoes of the gunshots, ricocheting off the walls and into the clear Zambiwan sky. The story is portrayed in news stations all around Zambiwa later that day. "The terrorist group "Haram Bo-Kay" is taking credit for this attack, as leader "Aldbu-Mohammad Sha'l" speaks in this video." - The news station plays a clip from a video posted to the internet later that day. "The group claims that this is the first in many attacks on the mostly catholic state of Akashi. They claim that Islam in the country of Zambiwa has been over run with followers of a false religion and that in order to reclaim the land for God, they must begin an ethnic cleansing. These statements have been sparking cries of rage from catholics as well demanding that the state take immediate . President Abu is reportedly scheduled to release a statement on the attacks later this evening, and will discuss the state's policy towards 'Haram Bo-Kay' moving forward." |
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