Shonar Bangla
15-12-2003, 22:06
It was a cold night, on December 9th, 2003, while the peaceful nation of Shonar Bangla slept, and the president Utsav Banerjee was away on a diplomatic visit to the Protectorate of Narasimha, when a tightly-disciplined small group of around 6000 orange-clad youths with Swastika flags overpowered the gate guards of the Presidential Compound on Esplanada Street, Shutanuti.
After that, the group split up, and took over the National Public Radio Station, which was a few blocks away.
As the Bangalis woke up next morning, few turned on the TV or the radio, as they are a peaceful, isolationist people who only want their bellies filled. Rumors began to float about a coup d'etat in the Presidential Compound. The military (totally loyalist to the president) was in a state of confusion, because they had been ordered to drop their weapons, go home, and enjoy a good, rare vacation.
The new government, which had started calling itself the Margist Party of Bangla, was now being known to all the people of the nation. The nation was in a state of shock and confusion. Rumors were spreading in all directions, of the new government starting a genocide of the slightly majority Muslim population. The Muslim population, which by no means took religion that seriously, bonded together, took out its knives, and swords from their local mosques (no right to own firearms), and attacked the non-Muslims (mostly Hindus, Buddhists and Christians). Suddenly, the secular progressive nation had been radicalized and divided on two sides, and the Margist Party suddenly had more followers than ever.
Shonar Bangla was in a civil war.
The western part of the country, was where the secularists held strong, and the soldiers who had realized that they had been tricked, sought refuge in that region, known as the Poshchim Bongo.
The president meanwhile, was given a very general and unconvincing account of what had happened, so he decided to remain in Narasimha, and co-ordinate the recapture of the capital.
Surprisingly, even though most of the military had remained undivided, and had escaped to Poshchim Bongo to continue the fight, they started getting pushed out, till December 11th, by when most of the military had either been destroyed, or at least, rendered harmless.
At such a time, when all was lost, and the new right-wing Margist government began to settle down, and the president had started leading a government-in-exile, the president got help from two unusual allies, the Republic of Rakenshi, and the People's Republic of Francezina. While Rakenshi provided with moral support, the Premier of Francezina sent in his top secret agents, to completely destroy the base of the Margist Party. This was a risky operation, with all odds stacked against the agents, but these honorable men had been in the job for decades. The operation required destruction of the Presidential Compound, capture of the radio towers, and destruction of the ports in the east, through which aid for the Muslim resistors poured in from the oil-rich Muslim nations.
The plan was perfectly executed, with absolutely no flaws, and there was never a little mishap whatsoever.
Next morning, the president was flown in to the region of Poschim Bongo, from where he announced on the radio (this time, he was heard, as the Bangalis had become radicalized, or rather, "politically active"), that he had regained control of the nation.
The nation was in shambles, desires for revenge were high, and getting the citizens to work together again was a rather difficult task. The president immediately ordered an investigation into discovering the origins and leaders of the Margist Party (counter-intelligence really sucked), but nobody confessed. He also turned down all the death sentences, as that would mean killing the whole nation (every family member had at least one murderer), and started cracking down on the Islamic terrorists who had entered on the pretext of fighting the Margists.
Now, the economy is slowly getting back up, defence spending is higher than ever, and the intelligence services are being improved.
Even the killers have learnt, that it is easy to be lured into hatred, but it is not easy to forget about it.
After that, the group split up, and took over the National Public Radio Station, which was a few blocks away.
As the Bangalis woke up next morning, few turned on the TV or the radio, as they are a peaceful, isolationist people who only want their bellies filled. Rumors began to float about a coup d'etat in the Presidential Compound. The military (totally loyalist to the president) was in a state of confusion, because they had been ordered to drop their weapons, go home, and enjoy a good, rare vacation.
The new government, which had started calling itself the Margist Party of Bangla, was now being known to all the people of the nation. The nation was in a state of shock and confusion. Rumors were spreading in all directions, of the new government starting a genocide of the slightly majority Muslim population. The Muslim population, which by no means took religion that seriously, bonded together, took out its knives, and swords from their local mosques (no right to own firearms), and attacked the non-Muslims (mostly Hindus, Buddhists and Christians). Suddenly, the secular progressive nation had been radicalized and divided on two sides, and the Margist Party suddenly had more followers than ever.
Shonar Bangla was in a civil war.
The western part of the country, was where the secularists held strong, and the soldiers who had realized that they had been tricked, sought refuge in that region, known as the Poshchim Bongo.
The president meanwhile, was given a very general and unconvincing account of what had happened, so he decided to remain in Narasimha, and co-ordinate the recapture of the capital.
Surprisingly, even though most of the military had remained undivided, and had escaped to Poshchim Bongo to continue the fight, they started getting pushed out, till December 11th, by when most of the military had either been destroyed, or at least, rendered harmless.
At such a time, when all was lost, and the new right-wing Margist government began to settle down, and the president had started leading a government-in-exile, the president got help from two unusual allies, the Republic of Rakenshi, and the People's Republic of Francezina. While Rakenshi provided with moral support, the Premier of Francezina sent in his top secret agents, to completely destroy the base of the Margist Party. This was a risky operation, with all odds stacked against the agents, but these honorable men had been in the job for decades. The operation required destruction of the Presidential Compound, capture of the radio towers, and destruction of the ports in the east, through which aid for the Muslim resistors poured in from the oil-rich Muslim nations.
The plan was perfectly executed, with absolutely no flaws, and there was never a little mishap whatsoever.
Next morning, the president was flown in to the region of Poschim Bongo, from where he announced on the radio (this time, he was heard, as the Bangalis had become radicalized, or rather, "politically active"), that he had regained control of the nation.
The nation was in shambles, desires for revenge were high, and getting the citizens to work together again was a rather difficult task. The president immediately ordered an investigation into discovering the origins and leaders of the Margist Party (counter-intelligence really sucked), but nobody confessed. He also turned down all the death sentences, as that would mean killing the whole nation (every family member had at least one murderer), and started cracking down on the Islamic terrorists who had entered on the pretext of fighting the Margists.
Now, the economy is slowly getting back up, defence spending is higher than ever, and the intelligence services are being improved.
Even the killers have learnt, that it is easy to be lured into hatred, but it is not easy to forget about it.