Hawa: Difference between revisions
→Independence
Line 102:
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 Kemto into the parliament, but when King Kian Van Rooyen V appointed a Rufi prime minister, some Kemto 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
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.
| |||