(Follow-up to): 1. First Vesvai Conflict
2. Guerilla War in Vesvai
Background
The First Guerilla Uprising
In the modern history of Vesvai and in what became known by its unofficial name as the First Guerilla Uprising the armed forces, the police and intelligence agencies of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai had managed to defeat and force out armed guerillas who crossed the border from the neighboring New Vesvai, blended in with the locals and waged guerilla insurgency on the Union’s part of the territory on the Island of Vesvai.
The guerillas were made up of Vesvaian expats, dissidents and defectors who left for New Vesvai in the final years when the Dominion of Vesvai was still a sovereign state and transitioned more into authoritarianism. After the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai was founded the goal of the defectors’ first guerilla insurgency was to end the Union rule on Vesvaian land and restore Vesvaian independence. Back in New Vesvai there were several umbrella organizations, political bodies and social movements made up of other Vesvaian expats, dissidents and defectors who associated with the defector guerillas directly and indirectly. But before the first guerilla insurgency these forces originally waged practices aimed against the government of the still-sovereign Dominion of Vesvai from the territory of the neighboring New Vesvai. When Vesvai and Oblaren formed a Union State the defectors added the restoration of Vesvaian independence to their list of goals and over time it became the primary goal. This was not only the first time that defectors were ready to pick up arms and go fight on the other side of the border for an end of the Union rule in Vesvai. That was when the expat-led National Liberation Movement emerged.
Soon after the National Liberation Movement’s political division the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai also formed. Both based in New Vesvai. Eventually other similar defector-led bodies like the National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai based in other cities of New Vesvai, started gaining traction. Both existed before the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai was formed. Their original objective was to resist the government of the Dominion of Vesvai from abroad. But after the Union was formed the restoration of independence became their priority. The National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai was the youngest by comparison to the National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai who were around before. But the National Liberation Committee got more traction because of it being based in New Vesvai’s capital city Perloveu, having larger membership and because of its combination of efforts with the rising National Liberation Movement. Despite being ideological allies the National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai saw the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai as a rival more than anything else. The National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai also rubbed the National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai the wrong way by unofficially proclaiming itself to almost be like a government-in-exile of independent Vesvai claiming authority over Vesvaian lands that were part of the Union. The National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai also each had plans to declare themselves the sole government-in-exile of independent Vesvai which only raised the feeling of competition even more. It created more rifts in what should have been a common cause.
Eventually the National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai met up and decided to coordinate to outweigh the more popular National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai by actually doing something of substance for the Vesvaian independence struggle. And that is when they decided to start financing, arming and training guerilla fighters to go and fight against the Union’s rule in Vesvai across the border. The National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai received support from the government of New Vesvai and Sunrisia. Eventually the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai was brought on board and all three Vesvaian defector political bodies were convinced to work together. The guerillas were initially good, but they did not manage to advance beyond the south-western border regions on the Union’s side and were pushed back by the Union army. They retreated back into the territory of New Vesvai and victory over the first guerilla insurgency was proclaimed. But even with that a training center in remote New Vesvai, close to the Union’s border, was established where a goal was set to continue transforming the guerillas into a modern capable military force that could match the Armed Forces of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai in battle.
The Second Guerilla Uprising
What became known by the unofficial name of the Second Guerilla Uprising was brief. There were local sympathizers in the Union’s territory to the First Guerilla Uprising by defectors who came over from political asylum in New Vesvai. But these sympathizers only had improvised weapons, no real skills or training and engage in vandalism along with borderline terrorist acts like stealing police cars and blowing up colonial monuments. They were not much of a help but admittedly they were a distraction. But during their time the guerillas managed to hang out with the locals they blended among. They got food, beverages, clean clothes, other supplies from people, shelter and these locals were even willing to risk breaking the law by lying to the authorities that they hadn’t seen any guerillas around. All while hiding those same guerillas in their own homes. The bond was created there and when the guerillas got pushed back into New Vesvai the locals were willing to continue the fight inspired by their encounters with guerillas. This time they were more organized and picked up some tricks. That is how the Second Guerilla Uprising suddenly began out of nowhere and the Union engaged Internal Troops to quell this guerilla insurgency.
Obviously the locals were still not as well-organized or skilled. They were under-resourced and the closure of the Union’s borders in Vesvai’s part formally over the pandemic left any possible guerillas inside Vesvai’s part of the Union cut off from foreign supplies, foreign manpower and foreign contraband black market military tech. In some cities where Vesvaian culture was more preserved the local populace was more sympathetic towards the guerilla cause and were anti-government, anti-police and anti-military. In more Anglophone cities the populace was anti-guerilla seeing them as terrorists and supported the military and the police. In the end the guerillas were cornered and had to withdraw into the underground rebellion movement at best. The Second Guerilla Uprising did not last long. The Internal Troops and local authorities proclaimed victory once more.
Present day
Union territory, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai
Peace was back on Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai. The military and the police control the Union’s part of the Island of Vesvai. There was no formal state of emergency or martial law but such a policy was a justified for a transitional period after terrorism was defeated. The local authorities needed to make sure the situation was stabilized and that a third guerilla insurgency does not appear out of nowhere. The border with New Vesvai was now more militarized and guarded than ever before.
- Union of Oblaren and Vesvai
- Talvistova (Covert support)
- Belantica (Diplomatic support, military supplies, volunteers)
- Local separatist insurgents inside Vesvai's part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai indirectly associated with VTLF and Round Table-Free Vesvai
- Vesvaian Territorial Liberation Force (VTLF), a militia made up of Vesvaian expats, dissidents and defectors from the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai who are based in New Vesvai
- Round Table–Free Vesvai, a secessionist government-in-exile made up of the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai, the National Council of Vesvai, the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai, associated with the National Liberation Movement and the Vesvaian Territorial Liberation Force (VTLF)
- New Vesvai
- Sunrisia
- Daredland (Training for the military of New Vesvai)
- West Zilveren Berg (Military medics only)
- Edereon (Weapons, ammunition, military tech supplies and training to New Vesvai)
- Creperia (Supplies of arms, tech and military training to New Vesvai)
- Baggnagia (Training for the military of New Vesvai and for VTLF)