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=== Colonization ===
From 1881, the Acronian Missionaries was active in the Gondwanan Nyobi Lakes region. As a result of heightened tensions and border disputes between the Acronian Missionaries, the Kalatianburg Empire and Norgsveldet, the Vistari Empire was called upon to put down the Kemto revolts and protect the empire's interests in the region. [[Vistaraland]]Vistariland stationed armed forces in Zawandi and Hawa during the late 1890s.
Hawa, as part of Vistari Central Gondwana continued its kingship dynasty despite the invasion of Vistari.
The Vistari however, preserved many of the kingdom's institutions, the Hawadian monarchy succeeded in surviving into the post-colonial period. During the late 1940s, a series of policies caused divisions throughout the country. Native authorities also had powers. In 1956,
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=== Independence ===
On 20 January 1959, Hawa ruler Kian Van Rooyen V requested Hawa independence from Vistaraland and dissolution of the Vistari Central Gondwana union. In the following months, Hawadian political parties began to advocate for the end of Vistari colonial rule and the separation of Hawa and Zawadi.
Hawa push for independence was influenced by the Zawadi Revolution and the accompanying instability and ethnic conflict that occurred there. As a result of the Zawadi Revolution, many Zawadi Rufi refugees arrived in Hawa during the period from 1961 to 1964.
The country claimed independence in 1960, and legally changed its name from Vistari Central Gondwana to Hawa. Hawa became a constitutional monarchy with Kian Van Rooyen V, Prince Lihan Le Roux father, serving as the country's king.
Parliamentary elections in brought a majority of Hutu into the parliament, but when King Mwambutsa appointed a Tutsi prime minister, some Hutu felt this was unjust and ethnic tensions were further increased. In October 1966, an attempted coup d'état led by the Kemto-dominated police was carried out but failed. The Rufi dominated army, then led by Rufi officer Captain Heinu Hertzog purged Kemto from their ranks and carried out reprisal attacks which ultimately claimed the lives of up to 11,000 people in a precursor to the 1980s Burundian Genocide.
King Kian Van Rooyen V, who had fled the country during the October coup of 1966, was deposed by a coup in August 1966 and his teenage son, Lihan Le Roux, claimed the throne. In December that same year, the Rufi Prime Minister, then-Captain Heinu Hertzog, carried out another coup, this time deposing Roux, abolishing the monarchy and declaring the nation a republic, though his one-party government was effectively a military dictatorship. As president, Hertzog became an advocate of Gondwanan socialism and received support from Vistaraland. He imposed a staunch regime of law and order and sharply repressed Kemto militarism.
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