Velkan Republic on the verge of a seconf civil war

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Ooops! spelling error in the title. Sorry

[font="Impact"][size="6"][i]VELKAN CIVIL WAR FLARES UP[/i][/size][/font]
9/1/11

BUGRINO, Velkan Republic

Experts fear for the worst after a series of six bomb blasts shook the capital of Bugrino this morning. The blasts started at 7AM with an attack on Foreign Minister Anatoli Mikahilov, who was fortunate to escape with only minor injuries. His apartment was destroyed however, and the explosion was followed over the next two hours by attacks on a convoy of army trucks, the headquarters of the Velkan Supremacy Front, a hand grenade attack on a police car and finally a larger explosion at the Nachtkreig Memorial. A total of seven people were killed, with a further 46 injured, some seriously.

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[i]Above; Foreign Minister Mikahilov's apartment, and Below; the HQ of the VSF[/i].
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Below; Velkan troops move in to guard the city centre.
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Martial law was immediately declared by the authorities. Mayor Boris Dobkin has stated, "it's all we can do to keep the city from falling into general panic. The police force is simply inadequate to deal with another crisis, such as the one we had four years ago." As of yet, no group has claimed responsibility. The targeting of the VSF, however, has cast suspicions on the Army of the Republic, the former military, turned guerilla froup, of the shortlived Velkan Worker's Republic. Nor can the Velkan Liberation Army be ruled out, with its history of not only fighting factions from the left and right, but carrying out brutal false-flag operations against civilians in its struggle for a western-style democracy.

The previous Civil War, which ended in 2007, claimed over 8000 lives and left tens of thousands more homeless or fleeing the country. The intervention of the Nordreich succeeded in halting the conflict and establishing Velkan National Unity, a coalition of eight different parties, as the nation's ruling organisation. The nation has been slow to recover, with only half of its formally beautiful cities having fully recovered. Despite millions in Reichsmarks pouring in from the Nordreich, repair efforts have been hampered by local corruption, factional squabbling and the general state of the nation's infrastructure. Harsh measures, including the death penalty, have been reintroduced to combat these problems. With yesterday's bombings, though, the VNU is clearly not taking any chances.

[b][size="4"]Images of the Velkan Civil War (2005-2007)[/size][/b]

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Edited January 9, 2011 by Velka