Albalast
04-10-2007, 02:04
UN BUILDING, UNITED NATIONS - Large scale rioting was narrowly averted today as the UN's Peacekeeping Guard was forced to disperse the growing crowds clustering at the entrances of the UN Rotunda, provoking further agitation from the assembled protesters. Thirty-eight protesters were arrested, with four of them having to be rushed to hospital, alongside two wounded UN Guards.
The past two weeks has seen increasing numbers of vocal advocates and opponents of the UN. Many are angered by the apparent lack of UN Initiative to get anything done, with no resolutions on the table in the last week and all potential resolutions are far away from coming to an resolution. Citing increased security concerns, the UN's small but well trained Guard Force attempted to relocate the crowds, which in turn sparked tense confrontations.
"The blue guards started telling everyone to clear the doors, and then people started shouting back. They [the protesters] tried to push back, and that's when the rifles came out," said eyewitness Lia Reicheds, a UN clerk who had to weather the crowds to get into work.
The Blue UN Guards, brandishing their ceremonial yet effective rifles, fired stun blasts into the crowds, targeting the most aggressive of the activists. Protesters tried to fight back, throwing placards and Stones at the guards. In the rush of the stampeding crowd, four of the stunned activists were crushed.
Two Senate Guards that attempted to extricate the wounded were then attacked with clubs. Lt. Anjanette Rosita and Lt. Troyes Mulleshar sustained blunt trauma injuries before their assailants were stunned into submission.
The entire incident spanned over an hour before order was restored. The north landing, which leads to the UN Rotunda's largest entrance, is now under the watchful eye of 50 UN Guards and Six Platoons of Multinational Peacekeeping Forces.
The majority of the arrested demonstrators were students from the University of Sillia's Southern Campus, who were there to protest the lack of UN achievement at anything, . The remainder of the group has relocated to the smaller, western landing.
"We are a peaceful demonstration," stressed Ishim Ti a Female student over a loud-speaker. "Don't let these warmongers provoke you to lowering yourselves to their level."
"While I regret that it had to turn violent, my guards acted per orders and are to be commended," said Jessa Cloture, Captain of the Senate Guard. "We have a responsibility to the representatives of the World. We have hundreds of delegates arriving in the coming days, and we have to make sure they are safe, and to do so, we have to clear those entryways."
An estimated 7,000 activists are gathered along the circumference of the Senate grounds, most of them protesting the UN's Slowness at achieving anything, and the fact there is no new resolution in sight to be voted on. A pro-UN faction is considerably smaller, but no less committed to voicing their views -- views that have broken out into isolated brawls along the concourse. The UN Guard has more than tripled security in the past week.
Further crowding the grounds are all manner of fringe activist groups using the opportunity to spread their messages. The People's Inquest has transplanted their makeshift camp from the steps of the UN Peace Temple to the UN Plaza alongside a number of illegal activist groups, such as the Dugs for Democracy.
"It's a zoo out there," said UNG Director Armand Isard. "We've got thousands of people, here, and that just compounds our security concerns. We are just moving them away from the gates, and not ‘rounding up agitators' or ‘restricting their rights to assemble or voice their opinions,' despite their more colorful claims."
In this seeming lack of UN competence many member worlds have threatened or already have resigned from the UN Chambers for good. The Trade Unions Representative stated "Even if the UN does set forward a resolution it will be another joke one like the infamous 'UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #210 Forest Management Act' that was made to 'increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.' Not only do UN resolutions get nothing done when they do something its always at industry's expense. The Trade Union is Based Off industry and commerce exactly what the UN Hates."
Later in the Press conference he stated that the Trade Union Would Consider Leaving the UN.
The past two weeks has seen increasing numbers of vocal advocates and opponents of the UN. Many are angered by the apparent lack of UN Initiative to get anything done, with no resolutions on the table in the last week and all potential resolutions are far away from coming to an resolution. Citing increased security concerns, the UN's small but well trained Guard Force attempted to relocate the crowds, which in turn sparked tense confrontations.
"The blue guards started telling everyone to clear the doors, and then people started shouting back. They [the protesters] tried to push back, and that's when the rifles came out," said eyewitness Lia Reicheds, a UN clerk who had to weather the crowds to get into work.
The Blue UN Guards, brandishing their ceremonial yet effective rifles, fired stun blasts into the crowds, targeting the most aggressive of the activists. Protesters tried to fight back, throwing placards and Stones at the guards. In the rush of the stampeding crowd, four of the stunned activists were crushed.
Two Senate Guards that attempted to extricate the wounded were then attacked with clubs. Lt. Anjanette Rosita and Lt. Troyes Mulleshar sustained blunt trauma injuries before their assailants were stunned into submission.
The entire incident spanned over an hour before order was restored. The north landing, which leads to the UN Rotunda's largest entrance, is now under the watchful eye of 50 UN Guards and Six Platoons of Multinational Peacekeeping Forces.
The majority of the arrested demonstrators were students from the University of Sillia's Southern Campus, who were there to protest the lack of UN achievement at anything, . The remainder of the group has relocated to the smaller, western landing.
"We are a peaceful demonstration," stressed Ishim Ti a Female student over a loud-speaker. "Don't let these warmongers provoke you to lowering yourselves to their level."
"While I regret that it had to turn violent, my guards acted per orders and are to be commended," said Jessa Cloture, Captain of the Senate Guard. "We have a responsibility to the representatives of the World. We have hundreds of delegates arriving in the coming days, and we have to make sure they are safe, and to do so, we have to clear those entryways."
An estimated 7,000 activists are gathered along the circumference of the Senate grounds, most of them protesting the UN's Slowness at achieving anything, and the fact there is no new resolution in sight to be voted on. A pro-UN faction is considerably smaller, but no less committed to voicing their views -- views that have broken out into isolated brawls along the concourse. The UN Guard has more than tripled security in the past week.
Further crowding the grounds are all manner of fringe activist groups using the opportunity to spread their messages. The People's Inquest has transplanted their makeshift camp from the steps of the UN Peace Temple to the UN Plaza alongside a number of illegal activist groups, such as the Dugs for Democracy.
"It's a zoo out there," said UNG Director Armand Isard. "We've got thousands of people, here, and that just compounds our security concerns. We are just moving them away from the gates, and not ‘rounding up agitators' or ‘restricting their rights to assemble or voice their opinions,' despite their more colorful claims."
In this seeming lack of UN competence many member worlds have threatened or already have resigned from the UN Chambers for good. The Trade Unions Representative stated "Even if the UN does set forward a resolution it will be another joke one like the infamous 'UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #210 Forest Management Act' that was made to 'increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.' Not only do UN resolutions get nothing done when they do something its always at industry's expense. The Trade Union is Based Off industry and commerce exactly what the UN Hates."
Later in the Press conference he stated that the Trade Union Would Consider Leaving the UN.