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Pyong's terror
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The Sojagnong Purge
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At the headquarters of the State Directorate of Internal Security, in San-Eseosi, Myeongju, tension could be felt. Everybody in the building knew that something was about to happen. The leader, Pyong Jung-seok, had since he came to power in 55AE, done nothing to consolidate his authority. In the beginning of his regime, many feared that Pyong would have them purged for the single reason they had been appointed by Pyong's predecessor: Han Ji-sung. The current party elite, military top brass and government administration had its allegiance to the deceased leader, Han. That would be enough reason for his successor to eliminate all those people, and to appoint his own people who will then have their allegiance to him, rather than Han.

But the officers of the Myeongjan secret police had more reasons to assume something was about to happen. Since Pyong was appointed as successor of Han Ji-sung, the political and ideological mobilization of the people in Myeongju had been decreasing. Ever since Han was a weak old man, there had been no large ideological mobilization campaigns in Myeongju, and Pyong hadn't done any such campaigns either. The quietness in Myeongju of the past decade, had made the Myeongjan people too relaxt. The secret police officers suspected Pyong wanted to use a purge of the current bureaucratic elite, to mobilize the population again for the Party and its ideology. Especially because Pyong's wars in Agabia didn't contribute to his popularity. After all, he was the first new leader after 50 years of Han's rule. Pyong had proved nothing, and he never attempted to increase his authority.

Not far from the main office of the SDIS, Pyong handed over some papers to Gwon Jae-hwa, the minister of internal affairs. Pyong smiled mysteriously as he gave the man the official orders of the Jajonsim Party to begin a purge. Gwon, who had always served Han before, smiled back. He had been responsible for crushing all dissent in Myeongju of the past ten years. He did not realize that Pyong was getting his knives ready for him as well.


One week later...

Exactly one week later, 4 military officers and 12 Party members were accused of undermining the Central Agabian war effort of Myeongju. In all of Myeongju, their show trials were broadcasted and millions of people watched it. The show trials had more of a theater play, rather than a real trial. Following the show trials, executive Gwon accused entire factions within the Jajonsim Party of conspiring against Pyong. More than 200 000 members who were suspected of having sympathy for any of the conspirators were expelled from the party. Another 60 000 Party members were accused of sabotage, wrecking, anti-Myeongjan activities or plotting against the party leadership. These people were arrested from their homes, tortured and sent to concentration camps in the mountains. The secret police used torture, but also advanced electronic databases with information on all citizens to find and arrest friends, associates and friends of the deported. All these people, were equally guilty.

In just a few months, hundreds of thousands of people were arrested, detained, tortured and interrogated by Gwon's bloody services. In fact, there were so many new prisoners that the penalty camps had reached their maximum capacity - so the decision was made to systematically execute the weakest prisoners. Especially those who had served in the camps for many years were executed, as they were of course weaker than the fresh prisoners. Others were lucky: They were simply released from the camps and given the job of some new prisoners - they literally replaced other people in Myeongjan society.

In these months, many people who feared they might be next, began to betray their colleagues, neighbours and friends to the authorities. Pyong himself launched a propaganda campaign in which he demanded full devotion of all the people in the war effort. That also meant that all who, in some way undermined the war effort, were deemed saboteurs who had to be eliminated from the society. The people, fearing they could be accused of being a saboteur, fully supported the Supreme Leader's decision to fight this war against the enemy within. In fact, many wanted to participate in it. They began to betray their colleagues, friends and sometimes even family.

The purge of the military, the government administration and the Jajonsim Party itself wasn't enough. The harvest of that year was somewhat lower than expected, and for Pyong that was enough reason to consider the peasantry a potentially dangerous group, as they were showing signs of ''collective sabotage of the war effort''. In the months that followed, death lists and quotas were made by the elite inner circle of the Jajonsim Party to arrest, torture, detain and deport as many as 430 000 peasants who were found guilty of sabotage and subversion. The State Directorate of Internal Security was equally merciless to their friends and family - entire rural villages in the country were left depopulated by the State Directorate. As the prison camps were too crowded already, Gwon gave his internal troops the orders to execute large numbers of prisoners.

Pyong had succesfully destroyed the relaxation and ''normalization'' of the population, by launching a major terror campaign. From now on, all ''normalized civilians'' were soldiers again: soldiers for the Jajonsim Party, subjects who followed every order of the Supreme Leader. In Myeongju, there was no time to relax, and there was no space for ''normal'' citizens. In Myeongju there were only ceaseless national campaigns and ideological mobilization.

During the Sojagnong Purge of 58AE, more than half a million Myeongjans were arrested and deported or locked up. One third of them was executed in the first months of their imprisonment.

In Chowon and Gotterland, Myeongjan terror campaigns had also cost the lives to another 200 000 people. In 55AE, many feared that Pyong would be a ruthless autocrat. But Pyong kept quiet, and didn't organize any muderous campaigns. Just when people started to believe Pyong wasn't perhaps that bloodthirsty as expected - Pyong launched some of the most murderous campaigns in Myeongjan history.

But Pyong was still not finished. His elite inner circle still had to be purged as well. Gwon, the main executioner in the purge, was among the people who were on Pyong's death list.
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