User:Brant/Acadia Crisis


 * Not to be confused with the Achadia Crisis.

The Acadian Civil War was a minor military conflict taking place primarily in the Acadian colonies, but with support in Metropolitan Acadia through civil unrest and riots. Sparked by the arrest of Robert Smith and the resulting riots in Acadia calling for the Acadian President Brant Esser's arrest, the Acadian Civil War soon broke out in the Acadian colony of Myr, along with more civil unrest in the other Acadian colonies as well. The Acadian Civil War was the deadliest conflict for Acadia since the Antarctic Revolution, leaving hundreds dead and much devastation.

Background
In 2015, Acadia briefly entered into the Bow Tie War, seizing Macradonia and attempting to make it an Acadian colony, but Macradonia proved hard to administer, with civil unrest and insurrections often breaking out. The looming threat of invasion by USA and UN Peacekeeping Forces forced Acadia and the then country of Snowiny, who also controlled another part of Macradonia, to withdraw from the island. Their withdrawal from Macradonia also marked the end of the Bow Tie War, a minor conflict within the much larger Antarctic War on Terrorism, and resulted in humiliating defeats for Acadia and Snowiny.

After Dorkugese forces seized the country once again, they found evidence of war crimes committed by both Acadian and Snowinian forces, with the Acadian military and police having executed dozens of suspected Macradonian terrorists and similar incidents in the Snowinian section. An investigation found both the Acadian and Snowinian governments to be directly responsible, and probably ordered the attack themselves, but no one in either country was ever arrested or convicted for these war crimes, sparking protests in Acadia, Snowiny, and Macradonia.

In late May of 2018, Robert Smith, the former King of Snowiny, was arrested by United Provinces police on the orders of the United Provinces President Simon McClark for alleged war crimes during the Macradonian war. Smith was transported to a prison in the United Provinces and was expected to go on trial later that year for criminal negligence and order crimes committed during the war. This sparked major riots in Acadia as well, with many taking to the streets to call for the arrest of Brant Esser, the Acadian President, for war crimes during the Bow Tie War as well.

The Acadian government, especially the Department of State, which was controlled by Robert Smith's brother, Dominic Smith, harshly condemned the arrest of Robert Smith, claiming that he was innocent and the victim of a scapegoat by the United Provinces government. When the United Provinces government refused to release Robert Smith since Dominic Smith had no right to order anything of the United Provinces government, Smith hired a group of mercenaries to attempt to release his brother from jail, although he was discovered by Acadian police while trying to pay them.

These actions resulted in a major scandal within the Acadian government, which made the rioters already protesting in Acadia even angrier, and they now demanded for Dominic Smith's arrest alongside Esser's arrest as well. President Brant Esser, who tried to help his friend and cover up the incident, was forced to fire Dominic Smith when word of his actions spread, making it impossible to cover up anymore, but the Secretary of State was never convicted or even arrested for his actions, living out the rest of his life in his mansion in Acadia.

Conflict in Myr
A group calling itself the "Myrish Liberation Army" had emerged in Myr a few months after the country's annexation by Acadia, with their mission being to free the country from Acadian rule. The group was crushed by Acadian military forces during the Two Week War shortly after their emergence, with its leaders being arrested and imprisoned, although some said the group continued to survive underground in the more remote parts of the country. No evidence of this was found in the years after the country's annexation, with their existence being dismissed as rumors by the Acadian government.

However, in 2018, after the island had elected a fascist governor a year earlier and the government in mainland Acadia had passed new laws that most considered a violation of rights, the Myrish Liberation Army emerged again, and began launching attacks against police and military in parts of Myr. The governor ordered the Myrish Colonial Forces, a branch of the Acadian army made up of recruits from Myr, to crush the Myrish Liberation Army again, and raids were conducted around the territory to search for the army, which resulted in hundreds of arrests across the territory.

On May 26, 2018, a Myrish Colonial Forces contingent of about 500 soldiers escorted by tanks advanced down the main road of the capital city, also known as Myr, towards the government district, flying the flag of the Myrish Liberation Army. The governor was informed of this betrayal and ordered the roads to be blockaded to halt the advance. At first, the Myrish Colonial Forces traitors continued advancing forward unopposed, but gunfire was exchanged between the soldiers at one of the newly built blockades, which resulted in a victory for the betraying forces.