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Official Diplomatic Communique

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The Commonwealth of Peltapavlosk

Comrades and friends,

As the aftermath beings to settle on the March Revolution, the people of the Commonwealth face an exciting time ahead; they are about to embark on the next phase in the history of our people, developing a new and better society for all people, not just the minority elite that exploited any and all resources and people they could acquire. The slavery of wage labour has been removed, the rights of the people have been confirmed in our new Declaration of Fundamental Law (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12485235&postcount=3), and the institution of universal democracy is currently being organised by the vanguard party of the revolution, the SRVP. However, there remains unfinished business with the former regime.

President-General Igor Smith, the tyrant that oppressed our country for his own political gain for so many years, took his own life in his private bunker during the final push on the Presidential Palace. With him, his Ministers and high-ranking officials repeated his cowardly act. President-General Smith took his crimes to the grave with him. But one man survived; General Gregori Haynes, known as "Butcher" to many people for his actions in the suppression of past political protest, was left to shoulder the responsbility for surrendering the former government. And shoulder those actions he shall.

Ahead of further trials of lesser officials and military personnel, General Gregori Smith will stand trial for his own actions in the Smith regime;

*Four counts of ABH on fellow military personnel.
*Two counts of mismanaging military funds for personal benefit.
*Six hundred and fifty-three individual counts of murder for the General's actions in the 'Bloody Thursday' massacre of Feburary 12, 2007, when unarmed food shortage protesters were subjected to Assault Rifle and Heavy Weapons fire by elements of the Peltapavloski Republican Guard.

The first two counts carry a maximum sentence each of four years, whilst each individual murder count carries a maximum sentence of twenty years each under existing legal statutes. General Haynes shall be tried by the laws that he assisted to maintain, with one notable exception; the Death Penalty, used so often by the Smith Regime, has been officially suspended.

However, this will be no white-wash; General Haynes shall be tried by a body of his peers as befitting the rights entitled to him under the new Fundamental Law, and shall be tried by national referendum on the charges levelled. The people, all people, shall be his judge, as the trial is televised into every home from the Judicial Court. The Fundamental Law also requires an impartial judge. This becomes a problem, as General Haynes caused suffering and misery to a countless number of people within the Commonwealth.

To this end, we wish to call upon the international community to put forward an impartial Judge to participate and carry out justice against the General. We require a person of numerous years experience in dealing with high-level political and military cases such as this, and with several references to the person's impartiality and fairness. This person shall be provided with free accomodation and nutritition for the duration of the trial, and will be granted diplomatic immunity and the protection of the SRVP's 'Red Militia' militant wing.

We await the response of the International Community.

Alexander Andreovitch Rodenbach
Chairman of the SRVP

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(OOC: Essentially, I am looking to roleplay the trial of General Haynes, with myself acting as the defence and prosecution barristers and the General himself. However, I would like to get someone interested in playing the Judge for the case. I am looking for someone literate in Roleplay who would be interested in such a case. The outcome of this case may affect some elements in my country, as the situation following the revolution is quite tense; although the military has formerly surrendered, several military bases are still crewed by personnel of the Republican Guard, and the new Socialist government still has to deal with dissolving the Guard and removing these hardline personnel from their barricades. I look forward to RPing with whoever puts forward a character that meets the criteria I wish.)

OOC: Bump

The People's Republic of H-Town Tejas shall put forth Judge Lại Phúc Bao forward to try General Haynes. Judge Bao has impartially tried many war criminals from back during Tejas's own civil war era. These include Brigadier General Emmanuel Green, who led fascist rebels in our country's Dallas Exclave in killing over 500,000 people and displacing millions more, Christian Edwards, director of the fascist secret police, who engineered the torture and murder of over 3,000,000 Tejanos from 1940 to 1993, and Colonel Domingo Phan, who led a treasonous military revolt in the capital in 1994.
We await a reply.

Mikel Aritza, PRH-TT Foreign Minister

We will gladly accept the services of Judge Lại Phúc Bao, and will make arrangements for his arrival.

Then let us not delay. Judge Bao will arrive in Peltapavlovsk as soon as possible.

Mikel Aritza, PRH-TT Foreign Minister

ooc: Could I have the name of the city that this is supposed to take place in? I'll post the arrival and that stuff when I've got that (And when I'm feeling a bit less lazy...).

We thank you for your assistance. Arrangements shall be made for His Honour's arrival at Revolution City Airport in the capital of our nation.

President Alexander Andreovitch Rodenbach

REVOLUTION CITY, PELTAPAVLOVSK

A Tejana de Aviación Il-86 touched down at Revolution City International Airport. It was a pretty much full flight, as many Tejanos had come to volunteer in helping the revolutionaries. But, a lot of these flights went out to a lot of socialist nations. It wasn't really out of the ordinary. The only thing that was really special about this particular one was that it carried Judge Lại Phúc Bao. But really, Bao just looked like your average Asian Tejano in his mid-late forties.
The judge stepped out into the terminal, hoping for no news reporters. His hopes were for naught; a large crowd of Peltapavlovski reporters was up in his face right when he walked two steps out.
"I'll answer questions later. Please, just let me by, it's been a long flight," he said, before the reporters could even get out a "Judge Bao, Judge Bao!" Yet, they mostly did not quit. Reporters could be so annoying sometimes, although, Bao had to admit; in their place, he would have been doing the exact same thing.
After shoving his way through the crowd of reporters, he found the Peltapavlovski government people, who were to take him to...wherever he was going, whether that be his hotel or elsewhere.
"Hello, comrades," he said quickly, "Where are we going from here?"

Andrew Li Jackson was a high-level official within the Ministry for Justice, a tall, dark-haired man of vague Korean ancestry, with a soft-spoken voice and a polite tone. He smiled, shaking the hand of the Judge. "Good morning Judge, my name is Andrew. I apologise for the reporters, but they are of course the byproduct of freedom of expression, no matter how annoying they can be." He chuckled.

The group moved out to a troop of three waiting vehicles, with Andrew and two other officials directing the judge to the central vehicle. In either of the flanking vehicles, soldiers from the Red Militia watched the crowds sternly with AK-47 Assault Rifles held loosely within their hands.

"I apologise for the guard," Andrew said as they settled into the back of the vehicle. "We do not wish to endanger your safety if supporters of the former regime decide to exact some bloodshed upon the revolution." He sighed, glancing out of the window as the convoy pulled away from the curbside. "We still have a lot of mess to clear up."

What Andrew did not mention was the current state of the Peltapavloski military; the Red Militia, with its limited access to armoured vehicles, was still largely an under-equipped military force that was the only thing protecting the new order. Several Republican Guard military bases across the country, whilst officially surrendered to the new government, were currently refusing to evacuate their fortresses, and several more had locked down entirely, becoming small islands of former regime support within the metaphorical ocean of the socialist state around them. Negotiations were currently underway. The situation was a tinderbox.

Andrew brightened, smiling at the Judge. "But anyway," he said cheerfully. "We have organised accomodation for you within one of our hotels, and the trial shall start in a three day's time. If you have any information that you wish to know beforehand, it can be provided for you. Also, President Rodenbach will be attending the hotel to speak with you tomorrow, to thank you for your assistance and all that."

"It's okay. We all went through this phase after the revolution," Bao replied, throwing his bag in the back of the vehicle, sliding into the back, and totally ignoring any form of seatbelt, "I remember, back in the '90s. My nephew and six other guys would be in the back of a technical, patrolling the streets. He'd go right by my window, every day. My nephew didn't even get an AK, he had an SKS. Complained about it all the time. Back then, there were UN Peacekeepers swarming all over the country, trying to put the revolution down. We made it though, there's no doubt about that. You guys will too, I hope."
"I've just got one question..." Bao said when he was asked if he had any questions, "This guy isn't like...a total loon, is he? Because back in the day, it seemed like every single one of the people I prosecuted was more nuts than a chipmunk on PCP. Like there was this one...Fletcher, I think his name was, who just sat in the courthouse and screamed racial epithets at everyone who wasn't white."
"Other than that, I'm fine. I look forward to meeting President Rodenbach tomorrow."