NationStates Jolt Archive

Corporal Mark Anthonia stood at the Estara Lasmar Border Crossing that connected his Corporate Police State nation ruled by General Walker Martin and the Liberal Democratic state of Jasatu. Corporal Mark Anthonia was extremely happy with the position he had within his national government's border security as well as the economic excellence that his nation was heading towards with many Fortune 500 companies coming to invest in Cealaar for its relaxed economic and corporate laws. However, unknown to Mark or not on his radar for caring, the government of Cealaar under General Walker Martin was a Corporate Police State and it had existing tensions under the well successful economic surface and to keep thus issues from exploding to the surface the government had begun to push some of its smaller neighbors and neighbors in general with regards to some economic agreements with regards to Cealaar oil, natural gas and electricity resources that its nearby neighbors needed to keep themself warm in winter. These agreements were causing friction with Cealaar neighbors and with the national government highlighting a border dispute with Jasatu that ran 45 miles deep into Jasatu western territory because a new oil and gas field had been found in that area was not sitting well with Cealaar's neighbors. However, Mark Antonis just sipped his coffee and sat in his seat at the border security post.

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History of Dispute:

The nations of Jasatu and Cealaar are born from the same crumpled older empire however, when the empire was collapsing the border was not clearly notated on the Jasatu western front and Cealaar eastern front. However, with it not being valuable at the time of the two nations being formed six years ago, the border was to be negotiated. However, with economic tensions as well as the discovery of oil the Cealaar government has put in a claim for the entire area as it was ruled by Cealaar administrators nearly a century ago under the old empire.

Java City, Jasatu:

In the capital city of Java City in the nation-state of Jasatu there was the President of the nation Andrew Richardson and the social military junta that met to discuss social and other political issues that had to be dealt with neighbors in their region, especially the troublesome Corporate Police State of Cealaar. General Andre Rochse and Generals Shawn Rogers and Vernon Nichols stood behind the President of Jasatu as they looked at the map of Jasatu and had the coloring marking of the region that Cealaar claimed as their's by right.

President Richardson said;

"Does Cealaar have a claim against our nation with regards for the forty five miles they are claiming as their's? That is a huge bunch of territory and not only will it give them another 15 billion dollars in resources and another population boost of 33,000 people."

General Shawn Rogers stated clearly;

"The Cealaarian people have no claim to that territory."

General Nichols concluded;

"That is why we have nearly 1,000 troops and border guards that will protect us if they do decide to attack since they have some social problems in their state at this moment."

President Richardson stated;

"What about our proposal for joint access to resources, I don't want a war."

"No response".

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At the border with Cealaar there was a small deployment of nearly 16 soldiers in a small encampment near the Cealaar border station. With several soldiers relaxing and resting near their tents and another three soldiers stationed near their military vehicle some of the troops watched the night sky and the beautiful stars they could see.

Official Imperial Diplomatic Message Gatawan Foreign Affairs Ministry

The empire has taken notice of the situation regarding the border disputes and wishes to act as an arbiter between the two parties as well as deploying a peacekeeping force of 25,000 troops

YustevHeinkle,Gatawan Defense Minister

Several Cealaar border guards stood outside of their border post where they noticed a vehicle in what they considered a no man's land between the Cealaar border and the Jasatu border. They therefore shouted a warning at the vehicle and saw several people move. As they saw the people move in the shadow toward the border of Cealaar, in actuality to the vehicle (military) the several border guards opened fire with their semi-automatic weapons.

With the sound of gunfire, Mark Anthonis and five more border guards came out of their outpost and opened fire on the vehicle as well from their positions near the outpost.

The Jasatu border soldiers ducked as bullets whized over their head. A young private Jasatu conscript was shot in the shoulder and collapsed in a ball and held onto his shoulder as blood began to trickle from his wound and being covered with his red blood. Another Jasatu soldier was shot and wounded in the stomach by another bullet from the Cealaar side of the border and the non-wounded soldiers returned fire on the Cealaar border post.

Cealaar border guards ducked at their border post as 5.66 mm bullets from the Jasatu soldiers splintered into the border-post door frame. A border guard shooting from one of the windows in the border post was struck by a bullet in his left side of his face and badly wounded his left eye and cheek bone, breaking in and having him collapse screaming from the pain that the bullet had caused to his face.

Mark Anthonis gasped softly as he clutched his chest as blood began to spill from the two wounds he had received and felt the blood drip down onto the cool ground. He dropped to his knees as his lungs filled up with blood and crumpled to the ground as more blood seeped around him and felt his blood force slip away.

Another Cealaar border guard also dropped dead from another Jasatu bullet to the head and he collapsed. Surviving Cealaar border guards continued to fire at the vehicle and the soldiers in no man's land before pulling back after the fifteen minute battle leaving two border guards dead and one injured in the border post.

Jasatu sergeant Micahe Ansamaron stood and fired several more shots at the Cealaar border post and ordered his Jasatu troopers to gather together, and found out that four Jasatu soldiers had been wounded and another soldier had passed away from the fighting with the armed men from the Cealaar side of the border. Micahe Ansamaron with four unwounded troopers quickly and silently crossed the border into Cealaar and entered the border patrol station from where the gunfire had originated. Seeing the wounded border guard, two Jasatu soldiers grabbed him and quickly stabilized him and with Micahe go ahead they headed back across the border with the wounded Cealaar border security trooper bypassing his two dead comrades.

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Java City, Jasatu:

President Richardson picked up the telephone on the third ring and listened intently to the Interior minister as he spoke;

"Tonight President several Cealaar border guards open fire on a patrol of our soldiers. If the gunbattle that occured, it resulted in the death of one Jasatu soldier and two Cealaar border guards. We have taken one of them prisoner and have sent them to a nearby military hospital as they have severe face and eye injuries. What action should we take sir?"

"Get the General prepared to make a joint statement. The foreign affairs will release a brief statement."

Looking at his desk, Richardson noticed a letter from the nation of Gataway and read it in its entire wording.

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To Cealaar National Government
From Jasatu Foreign Ministry;

Tonight a border clash occured between our forces resulting in the tragic deaths of 3 people. However, we have captured one of your border guards and will question him to see if your forces illegality attacked our forces or if it was our forces in error. Until then we ask you to not do any rash actions as wel try to find out what occured.

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To Gataway National Government
From Jasatu Foreign Ministry;

The nation of Jasatu does not believe peacekeepers need to to be provided to our border with Cealaar. However we would like to discuss our border issues with Cealaar in a neutral state and if you are willing to host that would be good.

To Cealaar National Government
From Jasatu Foreign Ministry;

Tonight a border clash occured between our forces resulting in the tragic deaths of 3 people. However, we have captured one of your border guards and will question him to see if your forces illegality attacked our forces or if it was our forces in error. Until then we ask you to not do any rash actions as wel try to find out what occured.

The Cealaar government has received the same accounts from its border guards in the region and they all indicate that the border guards fired upon a vehicle in the no man's land betwen our nation and was then fired upon after giving warning by your military forces. We thusly believe that your troops should stand trial, the border guard that was captured returned to us and the 45 miles of territory transfered to Cealaar control. If that is not completed we will declare that your nation is agressive against ours.

Daniel Dantiney
Foreign Affairs Minister
Cealaar National Government

A patrol of Cealaar national troops numbering about 100 soldiers, six tanks and several personnel carriers crossed over into Jasatu territory and entered into a small village of 60 people. The lead tank as well as two other tanks fired tank shells at a Jasatu military post, firing five tank shells in all. Cealaar ground troops also opened fire on Jasatu military positions and entered deeper into the small community.

The patrol took light gunfire and responded with four more tank shells and gunfire in the direction of the attacks. After two hours, the troops left the small village and retreated back over the border into Cealaar with one dead soldier and four soldiers wounded in the operation.

The Commonwealth of Tolvan agrees with Empire of Gataway that peacekeepers should b edeployed to secure the contested areas until an amicable solution can be worked out. To that end we are prepared to deploy an entire division of our troops as a part of such a force.

Victor Keyes
Foreign Minister
Commonwealth of Tolvan

A small village in Jasatu containing no more than 60 people and a small police force and not a military force engaged a Cealaar attack of more than 100 soldiers. The police station was hit with four shells of the first five fired at the village police station wounding three police officers and killing a teenage civilian woman. The unwounded police officers engaged with small arms fire killing a Cealaar trooper and receiving three fatalities and one more civilian fatality with two soldiers and two civilians captured by Cealaar troops before they withdrew, leaving 5 Jasatu citizens dead.

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To Cealaar National Government;
From Jasatu Foreign Ministry;

The attack by your forces on one of our border villages in the disputed area is despicable as you wanted captives to use as a bartering chip for the one border guard detained by our forces. This action cost us five citizens and the lost of four into your hands. We demand that these acts of agression be ceased before we increase our threat level and may have to sever relations with your nation in the near future.

Official Imperial Message

The empire agrees to host a conference between the two parties within Gataway and a special board room has been established within the imperial palace. Security will be provided by Gatawan security forces and you have our assurances that no harm will come to your delegates. We await their arrival but stress that peace keepers be deployed to establish a temporary DMZ before the situation gets out of hand

Gatawan Supreme Imperial Council

To Tolvan National Government;
From Jasatu Foreign Ministry

With the blatant agression from the Cealaar side of the border we do not know if they will agree to a cease-fire or continue on with cross-border attacks. However, if you or other international community members can able economic and political pressure on their government to come to a cease-fire and negotiate, we may agree to a peacekeeping force in Cealaar agrees as well to set up a 'no man's land' where the troops would be stationed.

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Cealaar border units prepared there thirty artillery positions. General Andre Witcherson was standing in his command post as the artillery units, nearly 100 artillery pieces was positioned nearly one mile away from the Jasatu border. Getting the signal from the military command in the capital of Ceala General Andre Witcherson ordered a barrage.

From that point, artillery were fired from the first line of artillery guns and flew off into the dunes of the Jasatu side of the border before exploding when they hit the Jasatu side of the border. Large plumes of smoke rose up from the Jasatu side of the border as a second round of shells flew into the Jasatu side of the border exploding and sending larger plumes of smoke into the air at least 15 miles inside the border.

A military vehicle in Jasatu was hit by two artillery shells and exploded into a ball of flames and came to a rest by a tree with two soldiers dead and three soldiers badly wounded. Jasatu artillery units that had been ordered up from the capital to the border regions of Cealaar and fired about a good dozen to two dozen shells back at the Cealaar artillery positions.

Cealaar shells hit two other military positions killing two more Jasatu soldiers and wounding 10 other soldiers.

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Elsmara Air force Base;

Captain Barry Towers raced to the blackhawk helicopter along with seven other troopers and the black hawk helicopter lifted off into the air with its payload. Two other blackhawk helicopters took off after the one carrying Captain Barry Towers and after a quick flight they flew across the Cealaar border and arrived at an artillery site where four artillery pieces and several Cealaar troops positioned.

The blackhawks opened fire with cannon fire and missiles, striking one of the artillery pieces, having it explode in a ball of flame and knocking down a military transport. The troops then rooped quickly down and engaged in quick gunfight with the troopers and engineers that were around the three remaining artillery pieces. The troopers quickly killed five Cealaar troopers and captured seven other soldiers. Heading quickly back to the black hawk helicopters the three artillery pieces exploded from C4 charges as the three black hawk helicopters headed back to Jasatu.

Andre Witcherson was informed about the military raid on the Cealaar artillery positions that had killed six troops in all and had resulted in the capture of 7 people by the Jasatu soldiers. Jasatu artillery shells exploded into military positions in Cealaar destroying two more artillery pieces and killing 4 more Cealaar soldiers and wounding 17 others.

Several more rounds were exchanged between the two sides for the next two days killing another 3 Cealaar soldiers and 4 Jasatu civilians and 3 Jasatu soldiers.

Border dispute;

33 people had been killed on both sides
8 cealaar had been captured by Jasatu soldiers
4 Jasatu citizens were being detained by Cealaar forces.

To National Gataway Government;
From Jasatu Foreign Affairs office;

With the violence that has left 33 people dead in the past six days over the border between Jasatu and Cealaar we do believe that a military force possibly (U.N) or other peacekeepers should set up a DMZ and implemen a cease-fire to ensure that no more people are killed in this violence border clash. Negotiations should be started immediately between our national government and the Cealaar national government and we ask for foreign nations to again apply pressure on the Cealaar national government o agree to a cease-fire.

Official Imperial Message to Governments of Cealaar and Jasatu

The empire demands that you cease all hostile actions and that both sides withdraw their forces 45 miles creating a 90 mile DMZ where Gatawan soilders will enter to act as a peace keeping force then both sides must agree to come to talks to end the conflict. Should either side disagree with this the empire will impose aid-sanctions against the violating party as well as a full blockade on the violating party or the use of full military action against the violating party.

Imperial High Council of Gataway

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The Commonwealth of Tolvan agree with Gataway and will deploy troops to enforce the DMZ once it is established.

Victor Keyes
Foreign Minister
Commonwelth of Tolvan