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*This is a time line about a United Nations trying to stabilize an industrialized nation. If you are already paranoid, go read something else, I plan to try and make this unsettling. We will begin four and a half years before my birth. I do not live in South Africa, nor have I ever visited it, I can be way off base sometimes.*
UNMISA Time Line
By Dash Trudeau
Initialization: XXXX1118032009
May 29 1985
A State of Emergency is declared in 18 magisterial districts in response to rising levels of violence against the authorities is announced by the South African President.
June 19 1985 Police brutality is videotaped in the districts where a State of Emergency is in effect and smuggled around the country, however it will not be shown outside of South Africa for a decade.
July 20 1985
An additional 36 magisterial districts are placed under a State of Emergency by the President.
October 10 1985
In response to the State of Emergency declared in many districts the President is assassinated by a 15 year old who was trained just for this by a black nationalist group.
October 13 1985
After torturing the youth for several days the South African Police conduct a series of raids that kill many young black men who were found to be armed. Outrage against the authorities grows even stronger.
November 10 1985
A list of names of people who have been detained under the Internal Security Act, which is illegal to disclose, is leaked and finds its way to the outside world. It contains the locations of many secret prisons.
November 29 1985
The government makes bringing this list in or out of the country and offence punishable by death under a revised Treason law. Many in the international community object, however South Africa has nuclear weapons so the international community can do little.
December 15 1985
First incident of a suicide bomber in the nation. It will soon be followed by others.
December 20 1985
First unsuccessful suicide bomber is captured and tortured by the government after the charge fails to explode. The would-be bomber is tortured for hours but dies before giving up any leads.
January 3 1986
State of Emergency is declared over the entire country. Sites now declared as 'Unrest' areas will allow the police extraordinary measures to crush protests.
January 4 1986
A live broadcast accidentally shows 30 seconds of police brutality. What usual censorship by the State-controlled media is now ludicrous in it's attempts. There are no news reports concerning much of the nation.
January 27 1986
Muslim Imams create a rift when they issue a statement saying the Black Nationalist Movement is 'doomed to fail if it does not embrace Allah'. Many youths denounce Islam as an opportunistic religion, making the rift deeper, causing much Islamic weapon shipments to be halted, as well as money to slow down in it's flow. This shows only the small surface of growing tension between the South African National Congress and Islamic supporters, which began with the use of suicide bombers by Muslims; many A.N.C. members viewed it as tarnishing their cause.
February 9 1986
Sharpshooters target white teachers in a classroom in KwaZulu-Natal, causing a loss of support for the anti-apartheid cause around the globe. Many children are traumatised for life.
March 4 1986
A submarine is attacked by swimmers while it is in the dock. It suffers minor damage, but the effect is profound on the military.
March 6 1986
In co-ordinated raids by the army over nine hundred militants are killed with over a thousand captured. They are taken to newly-constructed secret prisons, as the former prisons are now often attacked.
March 21 1986
The strike by National Union of Mine Workers is protected by militants wanting the Apartheid to end. Caught in the middle of a crossfire, the Unions primary demonstration is in shambles. The miners go back to work after the incident, not wanting to be arrested upon charges of terrorism with the A.N.C. involvement.
April 1 1986
The governments raids a high school which angers many however it proves to be a hiding spot for weaponry and militant youth. Other schools are checked for weapons regularly by police.
April 3 1986
The A.N.C. is called a terrorist organization by many governments, however support increases around the world. Muslim nationalists are slowly dwindling as many receive too little support form other nations to continue to make a splash in comparison to the A.N.C.
April 19 1986
Government forces use lethal force on a march of elderly people who've lived their lives under apartheid as they march down the street in solidarity with the A.N.C. in what was described as an 'Unrest' area.
May 1 1986
May Day is celebrated by the Communists, which allows them to be spotted and taken in. This is a sizable blow to the movement, but one it can live without now that the worlds attention is on the movement as a non-Marxist movement.
May 13 1986
A new leak is traced back to a government official who let it be known the new locations of the Government secret prisons. He is sentenced to death and the security increased at these locations, which hold many Marxist prisoners recently captured.
May 26 1986
Prison breakouts happen near-simultaneously at several prisons, however the result is a net loss for the anti-apartheid movement as the prisoners released are outnumbered by those killed and captured.
*this is the first year, comments are welcome and so is criticism. I know, it's heavily focused on the violence, but I don't really think that things like Nigeria's boycott of sports in 1986 will have a large part in making the UN take military action.*