Kundrati

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Massive protests erupt over the rule of the Kundrati Legion; police crack down and kill eight

[9 October 5584]

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The Kundrati Union has never seen this much anger over politics, at least in this variation of the Union.

Calls to action, led by Tiberius Claudius Aroain, led to millions showing up yesterday in the streets of Kundrati to protest the rule of the Legion. So far, this has led to major companies bailing out for other countries, foreign and national citizens alike heading for neighborly countries, and Kundrati's international standing in freefall. The calls to action are meant to try and pressure the Legion to calm down.

The people have responded accordingly. Millions were seen throughout the streets as mentioned earlier, with higher numbers in Jildrat(h)i City, Aethansk, Leuansk, Riecny Brod, Tomasadyn, and Venora, with the most people, around a million per protestor statements, in the capital itself. And it was there where things didn't end well.

As a million people crowded National Street along the majority of its length, there were calls for the KL to roll back their laws regarding porn, the judicial system, and other various laws. One law, in particular, will remove the ability of women to serve in the Armed Forces; another law will allow torture to be legalized for any reason and even a law that will censor the media regarding the government. The highest ranking woman in the Kundrati Armed Forces, the Admiral of the Carrier Fleet Calpurnia Lorenzi Čiliaková, spoke out and said that she would instead serve her country through death and honor than as a housewife all day.

Former President Alan Bienennueva also spoke in the rally, calling for Kundratis to reject the Legionaire rule, vote in the next election for the Kundrati People's Party, and deny current President Bronislav Sladek a mandate. He said that the current government is nothing more than highway robbers who only destroy what they touch and that with KL rule, a rise of anti-Kundrati and anti-Delic racism has already risen, with people thinking it is ok to be cruel to others now. The crowd especially cheered when he said on his first day, he would roll back everything the KL did.

We asked for a response from the Kundrati Legion over these protests. While we could not get the President to comment, citing the ongoing summits with other countries, the Minister for Internal Affairs Denis Komárek commented:

These protests are a sham propagated by Kalistan and Zardugal, other nations who want us to fail. This was a democratic transfer of power from one party to another, and it was clear the people saw us best when they voted for us and we will deliver. We trust that the police, the army, and our loyal services will treat these protestors well.

After hours of speaking, and suddenly, helicopters were in the sky as the day got darker. Flares were fired as police cordoned off various streets as there was fighting in the crowd. Kasaema Police moved in and, in a scene making the rounds through the Kundrati social media services, beating up numerous protestors and dragging their bloodied bodies through the streets to a waiting police van. Numerous scenes like this were repeated through National Street as police rushed through the crowd. There were other reports of other masked individuals, believed to be a part of the paramilitary of the Kundrati Legion, joining the police and beating up other protestors, sometimes severely. Tear gas was thrown soon after as some of the protestors decided to fight back against the Legionnaires and the police. However, most of them were arrested and mostly beaten and bruised themselves.

So many tear gas canisters were fired, and so much blood on the streets that one person described it as a cake with blood on the bottom and gas on the top. According to the protestors, eight people died, and another 68 were injured. Hundreds of thousands more were crushed up against the other side of the street, causing more crush-related injuries, although they overwhelmed the police stationed on those streets and managed to get away from the chaos.

As blood is spilled in the capital, there are fears that such violence will continue.