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The Tofino Times
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Thursday, December 26th, 2019

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[/hr]VOL. XXXII .. Num. 6320 | In the News: Amstelveen Bombing

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[color=#FF0000]BREAKING NEWS
EXPLOSION ROCKS VULKARIA's LARGEST CITY, KILLING 48 PEOPLE
M.L.F. CLAIM RESPONSIBILITY FOR BOMBING IN AMSTELVEEN

Above: Smoke rises over Amstelveen after a suicide bomb attack near President Farhen Brooks' re-election rally killed 48 people.

A suicide bomber killed 48 people in a violent attack in Vulkaria's largest city of Amstelveen on Thursday, the deadliest attack in the nation since the rebel insurgency restarted in summer of 2017. The attack happened 9 days before Vulkaria's presidential election, which various terror group commanders from the Malvarian Liberation Front and the Vulkarian National Army have vowed to violently disrupt, and follow collapsed peace talks between the national government, Zamastanian and Cadairian observers, and the more than 20 insurgent groups.

President Farhen Brooks, who is seeking a third four-year term in voting on January 4th, was due to address a rally in Amstelveen, the largest city in Vulkaria and the nation's economic hub, when a suicide bomber attacked a security checkpoint. The attack was in the city's downtown area, deemed one of the most secure locations in the nation.

The blast killed 48 people and wounded 142, said Gerard Ismah, spokesman for the interior ministry.

“When the people were entering the police camp, an man riding a motorcycle arrived on the highway and detonated his explosives, causing casualties,” said Amstelveen province’s police chief Daren Circlo.

“Do not take part in the puppet administration’s election rallies, because all such gatherings are our military target,” a spokesperson of the M.L.F. said in a video statement released following the attack. “If, despite the warning, someone get hurt, they themselves are to blame.”

Addressing the Amstelveen attack, Vulkaria's president lashed out at the Malvarian Liberation Front as the “coward enemy” for targeting civilians.

“I offer my heartfelt condolences to victims of today’s tragedies in Amstelveen and pray for speedy recovery of those who were wounded,” Brooks wrote on his official social media account. “We stand united in this hour of grief.”

While the rebel insurgency is largely contained to the north-west portion of Vulkaria and along the border region with Zerphique, occasional attacks and skirmishes have found their way into metropolitan areas of the nation, including Amstelveen and the capital of Vulkar.

Amstelveen is the largest city in Vulkaria with a population of over 2.34 million people, followed by the capital of Vulkar. It has history ranging back thousands of years with ancient sites, though the modernization of the city is recognized throughout the International Democratic Union. It has also been the site of uprisings and violence in Vulkaria's past, most notably the bloody Battle of Amstelveen during the Second War in Vulkaria.

Zamastanian forces suspended their airstrike campaign in early 2019 after a nearly year and a half bombardment, and while there is a presence of over 6,000 Zamastanian ground forces operating in Vulkaria, they have not engaged enemy forces since May 2018. 3 Zamastanian soliders have been killed in Vulkaria since 2017, when the M.L.F., V.N.A., and several other separatist groups (labeled as terror organizations by several nations including Zamastan, Vulkaria, Cadair, Laeral, Lauchenoiria, Legionas, Eiria, Shuell, United New England, and Libertas Omnium Maximus) joined forces and began an offensive to overthrow the federal government. Coalition forces of Zamastan and Cadair helped the Vulkarian government keep control, but small pockets of resistance remain in the Northern part of the nation.

General Kolman Bacckar of the Vulkarian National Army insurgent group and Van'a Kamoni as the leader of the Malvarian Liberation Front have been labeled as two of the most wanted and dangerous men in the IDU, responsible for several terror attacks across the IDU that have claimed hundreds of lives in the past two decades.

On October 18th, 2017, attacks in Zamastan's capital of Tofino killed 438 people, including 298 in the subway systems. Another 690+ people were injured, almost 400 seriously. Seven of the attackers also died while the authorities continued to search for accomplices. The attacks were the deadliest in Zamastan since the Alanis Pride Parade Bombing in 1982, which was also committed by M.L.F. terrorists and killed 102 people. Zamastan was placed on high alert terror watch for the first time since the end of the Second War in Vulkaria, during which 2 lone-wolf attacks took place at an office complex and a supermarket in Tofino and Jade Harbor that killed 8 people and wounded 22, including civilians and police officers.

On December 13, 2014, a suicide-bomber attacked a shopping center in Seahaven on Butterfly Island, Lauchenoiria, killing five people and injuring 11.

On August 28, 2019, 11 people died and 42 were injured after an attack by M.L.F. aligned Solas terrorists in Cardiff, Cadair. The terrorists stabbed multiple civilians who were attending the unveiling of a government office building.

On April 3rd, 2001, 2 suicide bombers attacked the city of Königsberg in Legionas, killing 20 and injuring around 100 people.

The Second War in Vulkaria (1999-2005) saw Zamastanian forces, supported by Cadair, Legionas, Laeral, Eiria and Osirisa, in a coalition force to destroy the M.L.F.'s capability to wage war. It was one of the deadliest wars in the history of the IDU, with nearly 2.3 million people killed, over half of them citizens. Of that number, Vulkaria's army suffered 103,500 dead and 467,240 wounded. The Coalition forces lost a total of 7,153 troops, including 3,246 from Zamastan, 972 from Cadair, 2,502 from Legionas, 394 from Osirisa, 30 from Laeral, and 9 from Eiria. The M.L.F. was highly armed, which was a political nightmare for Zamastanian intelligence who overlooked the massive armament of SAM systems the insurgents had possession of. Over the course of the war, 31 Zamastanian fighters and bombers were shot down, alongside 3 planes from Legionas and one plane from Laeral.

The war concluded with massive casualties to the insurgent forces: almost 721,000 were killed by the coalition. Their territory was greatly diminished, but they were allowed to keep a small territorial boundary in the northern portion of the nation after the Vulkarian government and Coalition observers signed a treaty to end the violence. No armed conflict erupted with the exception of a few lone-wolf attacks until the Summer of 2017.

Today, many consider the war to have been a vital necessity in stopping the M.L.F., though wildly mishandled by coalition forces, specifically Zamastanian forces. The negotiations that allowed the M.L.F. to maintain their own territorial boundary is considered by many to be the driving mistake behind why the terror group still operates today.

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