Sergeant Foley
Well-known member
More fallout.....
10:00 AM IST, Thursday, January 15, 1998
New Delhi, India
It seemed like a matter of time before the Republic of India would lose its own caudillo. Besides the loss of support of all Operation Dog Whistle activities, the growing condemnations against the Military Junta of India, embattled Indian President General Ved Prakaish Malik in particular for the massive atrocities from across the world and the economic and political blunders of the South Asian country with nuclear weapons would eventually be blamed on gross incompetence and the disastrous electoral debacle that occurred a few months earlier and to even the White administration begrudgingly was forced to administer economic sanctions including trade sanctions on India, it was just too much.10:00 AM IST, Thursday, January 15, 1998
New Delhi, India
More defections continued as the Indian Armed Forces would continue to turn on President Malik and the raging people would escalate their demands for democracy as they continue to be gunning for Malik and his staunchest group of supporters with several days before Republic Day.
On January 15th, the so-called press conference at Parliament began like many of Malik's speeches over his tenure as President. He spoke of the accomplishments of the Military Junta of India maintaining law and order; India's strong independent foreign policy. He also blamed outside agitators for instigating chaos on the Republic of India. However, Malik misjudged the mood of the crowd. Roughly six minutes into his speech, several people began jeering and booing; others began chanting "We Want Democracy Now!". Malik attempted to silence the crowd by raising his right hand, callinhg for the crowd's attention temporarily restoring some order; he proceeded to announce raising the minimum wage including other domestic reforms.....
This was a fatal mistake on Malik's part during the press conference........
More people began to boo and heckle the embattled Indian President as the images of Malik's reaction was among the most widely broadcast. He was wondering "Why can't I get control in maintaining order here?"
Failing to control the crowd, Malik abruptly ended the press conference and took cover inside the Parliament building. The rest of the day saw an open full-scale revolt exploding across Metro New Delhi's population which had assembled on the major streets across the Capitol City; they confronted police and military barricades. However, the rioters were no match for the military apparatus concentrated in New Delhi, which aggressively cleared out the streets by midnight and arrested hundreds of people in the process.
While this was going on, more defections escalated when rank-and-file soldiers quickly switched sides to the revolution almost immediately. The commamders wrote off Malik as a lost cause and refused to lift a finger in preventing the defections.
The entire world was watching as nobody knew what might happen next....