Akuan Atrocities

Akuan Atrocities
Location	Ymirland, Hvaloaszna, Vakrestrender and Norgsveldet
Date	1907-1917
Attack type	Mass Murder; Forced Labor; Fabricated Famine; Coerced Suicides
Deaths	Royal University of Osfjord Estimate: 6 to 7 million Association of the Servants of Akua Estimate: 8 to 9 million Nyveldet State University Estimate: 2 to 3 million.
Victims	Akuanist Natives Population
Perpetrator	Norgsveltian Armed Forces
Motive	Norgsveltian Nationalism; Ultra-Patriotism; Anti-Akuanism
Inquiry	Secretary Office of the Royal Family

The Akuan Atrocities was a series mass murders and forced labor programs which resulted in a large scale famine across the Akuan colonies held by Norgsveldet. Numbers are heavily debated between scholars and historians and if the Akuan Atrocities should be considered to be a genocide. It is estimate that 1 in 4 Akuanists across the Norgsveldet empire either died directly due to the actions by the Norgsveltian Armed Forces or indirectly through the famine, exhaustion in the forced labor camps or the coerced suicides through the isolation punishment policies. The harsh response by the Norgsveltian government was due to the Norgsveltian-Akuan belief in absolute pacifism and refusal to take part in the Great War or assist by providing resources for the war effort. Akuanists across the Norgsveltian Empire committed to civil resistance due to the entry of Norgsveldet into the Great War, methods such as boycotting Norgsveltian business that supported the war, draft dodging, protest marches, picketing recruitment offices and general strikes among other methods.

The Atrocities was primary driven in the beginning through massacres committed by Norgsveltian Armed Forces to disperse the marches and picketing. Later developing into forced labor camps, coerced suicides via isolation punishments and seizing agricultural produce from Akuan granaries in an effort to force Akuanists natives to grow the full yield of crops rather than self sufficient yield for the community. Akuanists during the war, tried to grow only enough food for the community, which included the Norgsveltian settlers of the colony.

The reaction from Norgsveltian Colonial Office to the Akuan protests was primary one of surprise of the Akuanists continued civil resistance efforts. Holding to stereotype of the cowardly Akuanists who would dispersed after handful of harsh measures. The continued resistance led the office and the army to further frustration with dealing with the Akuanists, resulting in harsher and harsher measures on the natives.

Definition and Estimate of Death Toll

The Definition and the estimated death toll of the Akuan Atrocities is debated between scholars and historians.

The Royal University of Osfjord citing the massacres, death in labor camps, coerced suicides and the famine in their count of the death toll with the estimate being 6 to 7 million killed.

Association of the Servants of Akua include a additional deaths including the natural causes, citing that the native Akuan population would have lived to the average age for those times in the colonies if it wasn't for the added pressures and environment caused by the Akuan Atrocities, estimating 8 to 9 million has died during the atrocities. The ASA also holds that the Akuan Atrocities should be considered to be a genocide and renamed to the Akuan Genocide rather than the Akuan Atrocities.

Nyveldet State University more conservative estimates 2 to 3 million and only cites the massacres as part of the atrocities. Stating that labor camps, famine and coerced suicides was standard practice for the Colonial Office and history of the regions. Therefore shouldn't be considered to be exceptional and included into the death total of the Akuan Atrocities.