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On YZ Month 202X, a street vendor selling traditional grilled Chappaqui flatbreads in Port Hyannis' Sagadahok Square spontaneously tore the Nanzitolclatl national flag from a flagpole above a nearby building, sprinkled it generously with {{wp|salt}}, and began to cook it, much to the delight of onlookers. By noon, crowds marching through the streets of Port Hyannis and Drumthwacket were were chanting pro-independence slogans and had occupied properties belonging to the central government and its state-owned enterprises. Prominent civil society figures, including Mashawit Kennebec, the patriarch of a chiefly family that had been sidelined by Alaganek in 1998 in favour of the current West Chapatec chief, Bishumitsi Kwikimarti, and Secretary-General Paul Naugatuck of the CPLA, joined with the protestors and established themselves as its leaders and as spokespersons for its collective demands. That evening, Paul Naugatuck delivered a rousing speech in Sagadahok Square in which he articulated the vision behind the growing movement while symbolically urinating on a portrait of Chief-of-Chiefs Alaganek. In particular, he excoriated the régime for its corruption, its marginalisation of the Chapatec lands and people, and its failure to halt the Daxian advance in the west of the country. | On YZ Month 202X, a street vendor selling traditional grilled Chappaqui flatbreads in Port Hyannis' Sagadahok Square spontaneously tore the Nanzitolclatl national flag from a flagpole above a nearby building, sprinkled it generously with {{wp|salt}}, and began to cook it, much to the delight of onlookers. By noon, crowds marching through the streets of Port Hyannis and Drumthwacket were were chanting pro-independence slogans and had occupied properties belonging to the central government and its state-owned enterprises. Prominent civil society figures, including Mashawit Kennebec, the patriarch of a chiefly family that had been sidelined by Alaganek in 1998 in favour of the current West Chapatec chief, Bishumitsi Kwikimarti, and Secretary-General Paul Naugatuck of the CPLA, joined with the protestors and established themselves as its leaders and as spokespersons for its collective demands. That evening, Paul Naugatuck delivered a rousing speech in Sagadahok Square in which he articulated the vision behind the growing movement while symbolically urinating on a portrait of Chief-of-Chiefs Alaganek. In particular, he excoriated the régime for its corruption, its marginalisation of the Chapatec lands and people, and its failure to halt the Daxian advance in the west of the country. | ||
On [ | On [T], the Five Joint Chiefs of the Chapatec, the traditional leaders of the Chapatec people, formed an alternative government. The Joint Chiefs decreed “emergency measures” authorising the seizure of central government property, granting official sanction to grassroots “community safety patrols” formed largely along clan and village lines, and nullifying central government bans on the secessionist Chapatec People’s Liberation Party and Chapatec People’s Liberation Army. They also called for a referendum on independence from Nanzitolclatl to be held within a week's time.<ref>This deadline would subsequently be extended several times by the Chapatec provisional authorities.</ref> This move was condemned by the central government as “sedition, treason, and race-treason”, and militia loyal to the Alaganek régime were dispatched to Chapatlan to quash the separatists. | ||
<!--T+48-->Over the next forty-eight days, pro-government militia assisted by some unites of the official Nanzitolclatl armed forces assailed the western fringes of Chapatlan, seeking to bring the breakaway region back under the control of Rigo. These forces were confronted by the CPLA and Chapatec "community safety patrol" militia. Despite fierce resistence by the defenders and and covert assistance from [[International Reconnaissance Agency|Kiravian intelligence]], the pro-Rigo forces slowly but steadily gained ground. Reports from CPLA fighters and Chapatec refugees of massacres, war rapes, and the razing of farms and villages would be corroborated by mobile phone videos and by satellite imagery. Atypically for conflict news from a poor and irrelevant country, this news was widely circulated in the Kiravian media. | |||
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