For three centuries, the stoic Pelagian people have suffered under the yoke of outlander Myrorian oppression. Over these three centuries, how many Pelagian people have been robbed, dishonored, dismissed, even murdered by the Myrorian people simply for being? The Myrorian government ostensibly pretends to take its authority to govern from 'the people' - the Myrorian people who invaded our land, toppled our buildings and institutions, and have subjugated us to a life on the outside - a life on the periphery. This will no longer be acceptable. Soon will we will be reaching the tricentennial of the Fall of Pelagis to an army of foreigners - Myrorians, Eluvatarans, Prydainians. The Myrorians refer to their flight from the northernmost regions of Ozia as their 'Exodus'. They prefer not to refer to it as what it was in reality - an invasion. Three centuries later the Pelagian people still suffer from the effects of this invasion while decadent Myrorian society fills its bellies on our toils and labors. As we near 300 years since the tragedy that displaced so many Pelagians, the Pelagian Nationalist Army has seen fit to declare war on its oppressors. Some may say that our most recent attack on the Plaza Anatole - "Moomintroth Square" in the Myrorian tongue - was an attack on civilians. There are no civilians in this war. If the Myrorian government truly claims to get its authority to govern from the consent of the people, then it is the Myrorian people who are our oppressors. Myrorian men spit on Pelagian laborers building the roads that will carry them to their banquets, and Myrorian women have Pelagian men hanged for making eye contact with them. There are no 'innocent souls' in this war. | These attacks will keep coming until our demands are met. Then, and only then, will we cease our fire and consider a plan for peace. The Pelagian Nationalist Army wants what the Pelagian people want. We want freedom. We want to be able to choose our own destiny - and if this means the forging of a new Pelagian nation then this must be done. We want decent housing. The Pelagian people are consistently pushed into the slums and ghettoes of every Myrorian city - places where the Myrorian people can forget they exist. Fires devastate our homes and the fire departments do not come. Murders run rampant in our communities and the police department does not come. Sickness tears through tenements and the doctors do not come. This cannot stand. We want the true history of the Pelagian people to be taught - the history of a proud people and an enormous empire destroyed by insidious foreign forces allied against it. We want an end to the brutality and murder of Pelagian men by the prefectures across Myroria. Pelagian men are routinely held without trial and thrown into jail without meeting a jury of their peers - Pelagian peers, not Myrorian oppressors. Pelagian men must be freed from prisons. Above all else, the Pelagian people want peace. But this pseudo-peace - a peace in which we are oppressed at every turn and pushed into the periphery of society - will not stand. And if it takes violence to achieve a real, meaningful peace, the Pelagian Nationalist Army will fight. Salute les populus Pelagens! Gieux benne Emanuel Politus! |