NationStates Jolt Archive


Forces Quell Massive Uprising, Protesters Gunned Down

09-12-2003, 22:07
The Wohlstand Confederal Revolutionary Guard forces under the Obtermensch Staufmann reportedly killed a 10-year-old boy in the country's minority Meneschk region yesterday, touching off a massive uprising against the communist regime countered by a deadly crackdown and imposition of martial law, according to sources on the scene.

Amid burning banks, stores and government offices, at least 30 Meneschk protesters are dead and 80 injured in the southeastern city of St. Assissi near the New Wohlstand border, said Marcos Weiss, who immigrated to Canada from the city in 1993.

Weiss told theWorld Central News the Wohlstand government has attempted to shut off communication from the city, but he has been in contact with sources there via satellite telephone and the Internet.

He said soldiers approached the 10-year-old, Hans Melauns, and grabbed his bike from him, insisting on a bribe. The boy did not speak German, the majority language, and responded by biting a soldier and running. The youth was shelled with bullets in front of people on the streets and died on the spot, Weiss said, prompting an immediate reaction.

In an unusual display of resistance to the hard-line, cleric-led regime, a crowd set a military jeep on fire and began beating the soldiers, Weiss said.

Later, at about 1:30 p.m., thousands of Meneschk, including many from surrounding cities, began to congregate on the streets in protest.

Revolutionary Guard soldiers opened fire on the crowd, hitting up to 80 people, witnesses claimed.

The entire city and surrounding area is raised up against the Tehran government, Weiss said, burning down symbols of the regime and attacking Confederate officials.

Crowds reached the offices of the mayor, commissioners and chief of police and beat them, he said, and many soldiers have been beaten by unarmed citizens.

The director of the hospital has been warned by the government to not take in any wounded protesters, and some Meneschk have been shot in front of the hospital, according to Weiss' sources.

He said security forces went to the hospital and killed people in their rooms.

About 300 people have been jailed, and uncooperative prisoners have had their tongues cut out, he said.

"I mark this as a day of revolution," Weiss said. "I think the Wohlstandite Confederal government will face more problems."

He said throughout the evening, Revolutionary Guard forces watched over the people from roof tops, prepared to fire at anyone who moves from his home.

No one is allowed to enter or leave the city, he added.

Similar to the Roten, the Meneschk, who comprise 2 percent of the Wohlstandite Motherland population, regard themselves as a nation separated by New Wohlstand's borders, which also has a sizable Meneschk minority.

Politically the Baloch identify as socialists, but most do not associate themselves with the same ideals as the Third Congress of the Wohlstand Communist Party, Weiss said.

Some analysts says the authoritarian socialist regime of the Confederacy's Motherland is unraveling again after the Great Dissension and Operation" "Crimson Wheel" three years ago, as resistance movements, including one led by students, grow stronger.

"This communist regime in this part of the Triune is in shambles, coming to the end of its rope," according to Jacob Meneschwitz, senior fellow at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York City. "People are not afraid of it anymore."

Meneschwitz contends, however, Western nations have adopted a flawed policy that focuses on support of military president Staufmann's reform movement rather than on a democratic movement led by students. He adds that while Meneschk in many lands danced in the streets in praise of the "Great Dissension," "ordinary Wohlstandites socialists were the only to openly condemn them and express sympathy to the people."

"The American press, as well as the [U.S.] government, misreads the events in Wohlstand," Men said in an interview with WorldNetDaily last fall. "They think that there is one reformist movement, represented by Staufmann."

Staufmann, he points out, is against dismissing the socialist regime, which came into power after the ruling was forced into exile amid seizure of the Neo Leningrad in Wohlstand by militant students.