[04082010] Trouble brews in the South

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Maksym Hadjimehmetov
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[04082010] Trouble brews in the South

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Hadjimehmetov paced around his office furiously. A knock came at the door and Rostam gingerly pushed it open- the Count seized an ashtray and hurled it at the door, shattering into tiny glass fragments.
It would not do. It simply would not do!

He had noticed something was amiss as soon as he entered Brookshire Hamlet that warm summer's evening- things felt on edge; a little tense, but he had been too tired to remark on it to the driver. Now, it transpired, they wanted to send the Count, the first indigenous Laqi ruler of Modan-Lach, to Lywind. And that wasn't all- when he awoke in the morning the sunlight revealed an entirely different picture than his Shirereithan superiors had give him of the province.
Fields lay fallow, people were milling about aimlessly after the seizure of Laqi autonomy and destruction of the Barony of K'Tzuni had destroyed countless hundreds of jobs. A weeping queue of old women and their gravely silent, chain-smoking husbands snaked its way up to the Baron's palace from the City Centre. Many were waving Modan-Lach flags with the Imperial County emblem cut out, and a few even carried handguns and other rudimentary weapons.
There was a plume of smoke on the horizon where the local barracks had been blown up during the night, and symbols of the government which had wrecked the economy and trampled on Laqi pride had been looted- the Post Office, Treasury, and archives. This couldn't go on- these questions would have to be solved peacefully. Or would they?

Hadjimehmetov had just enough time to put on the new uniform of the Count of Modan-Lach before two burly men in suits rushed him out to an armoured car waiting by the Palace gates. Daubed with patriotic Laqi slogans and draped with the same Modan-Lach flag without county symbol, the roof of the car was a scene of jubilation- local militiamen singing drunkenly, playing the accordion, and firing machine-gun rounds into the air aimlessly ruled the roost. There had to be order. The Count whipped his pistol out from its holster and emptied a cartridge into the air.
The crowd of despondent Laqi civilians stood silent, as Hadjimehmetov climbed to the roof of the armoured car and spoke.

'Friends! I understand now the gravity of the situation- but we are Laqi, a proud and cultured people. Before I was a representative of that distant government in Shirekeep, but now I speak to you as your comrade, as a Laqi, who feels your pain! We shall try diplomacy like the civilised nation we are, but if such a course should fail, we shall fight to Shirekeep itself if need be to force them to recognise our freedom.'

Enough of this cherade! Freedom, autonomy, and democracy for a Laqi Free Republic!
Friends! Compatriots!

The Laqi people is one of the oldest and most cultured in Shireroth. Our tie to this land is as natural as
a fish to the sea or an eagle to the skies. Yet once we soared, free, and jubilant with our own autonomy
and our ancient ways recognised and their significance understood by the Kaiser in Shirekeep, to whom
we swore loyalty. Our grain we shared with Shireroth, our brave horsemen we sent into the furthest wilds
of this continent to serve our Sovereign, yet he and his kind have betrayed the Laqi people!
The Barony whose leaders represented us in the highest echelons of Shirereithan society, its Baron whose
deep admiration and affinity for the Laqi people, and the peace they bought to the south is now a thing of the
past. For months now the Laqi lands have suffered hardship as the ceaseless infighting of those who are
supposed to reward us for our loyalty has gradually taken its toll.

We, the freedom loving and proud Laqi people, can bear this dishonour no more and in the name of
liberty and for a future for which we are prepared to fight, we proclaim the independence of the
Laqi Free Republic, its authority to extend over those lands where the Laqi populace reside.
We desire nothing more than peace and prosperity, and to those who aid us in these noble goals
we welcome you as brothers and sisters. To those who stand in our way, we sharpen our swords and
hasten you to an early grave.

In our independence have we found our true liberty, and in our liberty may we prosper and be proud.

Naxu Aҳatkөrө! Astәklalө!
For our Republic! For Victory!

In Solidarity,

Maksim Ҳaximeҳmetov,
First President of the Laqi Free Republic
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