Southern Seperatist Movement
This article refers to the Seperatist Movement of Southern Niploma
Southern Niploma
Southern Niploma is a term used to describe the southern half of Niploma but is used more often to describe the the area of seperatism.
The area that seperatists claim to be theirs is about 7.5% of Niploma itself but some groups argue that the whole of Southern Niploma is theres (roughly 30% of Niploma).
There is one key city in Southern Niploma, Khurun, a industrialised area which the Governemt advises foreigners to steer clear of. The largest town in the deep south is Cáplva, a town now effectively run by the paramilitary organisations. Failegn, Niploma's capital, is located geographically centrally but is still reasnobly close to the south. Failegn itself has been attacked on numerous occasions. Seperatists regard Failegn as the centre of unionism and as a key enemy.
History
The Niplomian Communist Army sparked off the famous civil war in the late 1920's and looked certain to overthrow the Oligarchy until the Socialist Resitance outsmarted the NCA and won the civil war. The SR then installed a government.
Meanwhile the NCA, now very small, fled to the south and began to stir up trouble. However by 1967 - when the army dissolved and signed peace with Niploma - the NCA had completely dissapeared. A political party was created instead, called the Official Communist Workers Party. The Party was a representative for all Niploma's workers and only 30% of the party was, and still is, considered seperatist. A breakaway group called the Revolutionary Workers Union was created as a Communist seperatist party. It achived limited sucess and is now considered minor. Many seperatists do not vote in elections and sympathists simply vote OCWP.
For almost thirty years the seperatist movement was considered social-democratic and peaceful. Indeed, Niploma could fight the small groupings of seperatists with police for most of the thirty years. However, seperatism ignited once again in 1993 when a huge bomb exploded in Failegn. This was followed until the current day with a huge seperatist movement. Analysts explained that the movement was simply underground and that the sudden attack had been planned over several years.
Current suggestions claim that up to 20% of Niploma is sympathetic to the seperatists. Southern Niplomians is considered marginally seperatist as a whole. 30% is sympathetic to the seperatist cause, 20% is loyal to the government, 30% is neutral and 20% is actively engaged in the seperatist movement (either democratically or militarily).
