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At the beginning of March 1967, in the wake of the [[1967 Tan Mar Massacre]] the lower house of government, the Tor, was finishing its debates on its fifth item of policy for the year. The policy, which was in regards to crop rotations in the north of the country passed with a 74% of attendance for the deliberations and was due to be passed to the Royal Court for its following meeting on March 4th. The day prior to the meeting Queen Anula issued her veto on the policy. The veto, a right guaranteed to the monarch under the 1862 Constitutional revision, followed worrying trends being taken by the queen. Since spring 1966 the queen had begun to veto all Torist policy and many in her court had commented that she had a growing distate for the Tor and her increasingly ruthless acts had begun worrying even her closest advisors. The same day as the veto, a formal complaint by the Tor was delivered to the queen personally by [[Vimukthi Ratnam]], leader of the Tor and a popular leader. Records of the meeting was lost, but in the aftermath he was arrested on charges of treason and sentenced to be executed the following day, March 4th. | At the beginning of March 1967, in the wake of the [[1967 Tan Mar Massacre]] the lower house of government, the Tor, was finishing its debates on its fifth item of policy for the year. The policy, which was in regards to crop rotations in the north of the country passed with a 74% of attendance for the deliberations and was due to be passed to the Royal Court for its following meeting on March 4th. The day prior to the meeting Queen Anula issued her veto on the policy. The veto, a right guaranteed to the monarch under the 1862 Constitutional revision, followed worrying trends being taken by the queen. Since spring 1966 the queen had begun to veto all Torist policy and many in her court had commented that she had a growing distate for the Tor and her increasingly ruthless acts had begun worrying even her closest advisors. The same day as the veto, a formal complaint by the Tor was delivered to the queen personally by [[Vimukthi Ratnam]], leader of the Tor and a popular leader. Records of the meeting was lost, but in the aftermath he was arrested on charges of treason and sentenced to be executed the following day, March 4th. | ||
Revision as of 14:32, 13 December 2021
| Native name | මහා අරගල (mahā aragala) (The Great Struggles) |
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| Date | 4 February 1967 – 1 August 1974 (7 years, 5 months and 4 weeks) |
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| Location |  Royal Ankat |
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The Ankati Revolution was a period of political and social revolutions that took place within the former Ankat Kingdom. The revolution began in 1967 with the Torist Revolution that effectively ended the House of Vijanna's rule and established a period of 'Constitutional Peace' before tensions and disagreements resulted in the death of Queen Anula and her court, with the rest of the royal family fleeing as the Ankati Civil War erupted from 1968 until 1974.
Background
1910 Revolution
Ascension of Queen Anula
1967 Tan Mar Massacre
Torist Revolution
At the beginning of March 1967, in the wake of the 1967 Tan Mar Massacre the lower house of government, the Tor, was finishing its debates on its fifth item of policy for the year. The policy, which was in regards to crop rotations in the north of the country passed with a 74% of attendance for the deliberations and was due to be passed to the Royal Court for its following meeting on March 4th. The day prior to the meeting Queen Anula issued her veto on the policy. The veto, a right guaranteed to the monarch under the 1862 Constitutional revision, followed worrying trends being taken by the queen. Since spring 1966 the queen had begun to veto all Torist policy and many in her court had commented that she had a growing distate for the Tor and her increasingly ruthless acts had begun worrying even her closest advisors. The same day as the veto, a formal complaint by the Tor was delivered to the queen personally by Vimukthi Ratnam, leader of the Tor and a popular leader. Records of the meeting was lost, but in the aftermath he was arrested on charges of treason and sentenced to be executed the following day, March 4th.
In desperation and having run out of patience, senior Torist Daya Dalusinghe met with his brother, General Nalin Dalusinghe who commanded a division-sized force stationed outside of the nations capital of Nilagne Naegima and after tense talks with him and his officers they agreed to raise their flag in revolt and at dawn of March 4th marched 45,000 troops into Nilagne Naegima meeting fellow Torists Bertram Silva and Ananda Muttukumaru who had convinced the rest of the Tor to meet them at the Royal Palace to demand the queens abdication in favor of her 9-year old son Prince Nimal, a move critics believed would leave the Torists in full control of the country. They were meant to meet with Ranjan Peries, a member of the royal court who would guarantee them access to the Queen upon their arrival. Unknown to them, Ranjan had met with the queen during the night and had informed her of the Torists plot. Upon their arrival at the Royal Palace just before mid-day, they were met with the hanged body of Vimukthi Ratnam and surrendering members of the Royal Guard who told them the Queen had fled with her family toward neighbouring Gam Ivura by train.
The arrival of a sizeable force into the city had caused a collapse of order with the police forces siding with the Torists but unable to quell looting as people feared shortages in the event of a conflict. After the Palace was secured, Daya Dalusinghe went onto national radio to call for calm, stating that the queen had been deposed and a democratic authority would take place to oversee the transition. At the same time, the queen had sent orders to army units around the country, with half ordered to meet her at Gam Ivura and the other half to lay siege to Nilagne Naegima by the end of July. Following the radio broadcast by Daya, however, many in Gam Ivura began to riot against the royal government and upon her arrival, the queen ordered the 12,000 strong city militia to suppress the riots by force. Her orders caused many troops to begin to revolt, although many were either shot or fled the city toward the capital. While rioting in Gam Ivura continued, the upper house in the capital were dismissed under arms by the Torists who established a committee that worked to restore order within the city and communicate with sympathetic military forces around the country.
By the end of July, when the queen had ordered the siege of Nilagne Naegima to begin, the Torists had control of roughly 60% of the military force of the country, with the remaining 40% either pledging allegiance to the queen or deserting back to their homes. A stale mate between the two sides had set in, with neither willing to commit to a full military conflict lasted until December, with only sporadic fighting when the two sides met by accident while patrolling their controlled zones. In december the queen, pushed by her family and the royal court, agreed to a 'Constitutional Peace', which would entail heavy changes that would severely diminish the power of the throne in favour of an elected singular house, the abandonment of royal rule over the provinces for elected officials, and the abdication of the queen for her son Prince Nimal.
The end of the Torist Revolution was celebrated in the streets, calling this a victory for their cause and many had already begun to call for Daya Dalusinghe, who led the forces in the revolution, to be made the nations democratic leader.
Constitutional Peace
The effective power of the monarch was all but removed at the start of January in 1968 when the Torists approved the first draft of a revised constitution that revoked all powers of veto and policy change but continued to allow the monarch the right to sit in on meetings. Disagreements between Torists, including leaders Daya Dalusinghe and Ananda Muttukumaru over the continued existence of the monarchy caused divisions that led to the creation of splinter factions in February, including Kaha Mal, or Yellow Flower. Kaha Mal, with Ananda at its head, gained quick popularity over the rural areas with its adherence to Margaya and quickly began to pressure both the Torists and Queen Anula for extensive democratic reforms and for the Queen to be tried for crimes committed during her rule.
These two factions agreed in February to a multi-party system of government but were thwarted when the Kamkaruvo Ekamutuyi (Workers united), a socialist union revived after it was violently suppressed in the 1910 revolution, also demanded representation after demonstrating it had begun to quickly gain support within the military and the two cities of Nilagne Naegima and Gam Ivura.
Ankati Civil War
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