National Revolutionary Organisation

The flag used by the NRO

The National Revolutionary Organisation(Colgasian:Kowethyans an Domhwelus Kenedhlek) was a Colgasian national liberation movement which was founded and built up by the Colgasian emigrant circles in Tricladia in the period between 1870 and 1873. It was active during the late 19th early 20th century. It was organised as a network of regional revolutionary committees and cells which were governed by a Central Committee. The foundation of this organisation was a turning point in the Colgasian struggle for independence as it became the first unified political body of Colgasian nationalists, before it Colgasian separatists were scattered among numerous organisations. The goals of the organisation changed throughout its existance. In the first period its goal was to unify the Colgasian nationalist intellectuals who were scattered across Western Asura, afterwards the organisation became more militant and made inssurectionary cells throughout Colgasia and Camria. Afterwards, when the organisation became the main political body of Colgasian separatists, it officially issued a proclamation, in 1879, that its goal is to create an independent Colgasia which would be a liberal-republic. Following the rebellions they organized and the success of the Colgasian War of Independence, the NRO members organised the government of the first Colgasian Republic. However, due to the outbreak of the Colgasian Civil War the NRO had split between two factions, the minor one being the lefist faction and the other one which was anti-communist. After the civil war ended, the NRO started loosing its membership as many thought that it has fulfilled its mission - an independent Colgasia. However, NRO still continued to operate, now setting its eyes on the territories of surrounding countries which had significant Colgasian minorities and they sought to unify them with their newly founded independent homeland. Special committees were formed, like the Eastern Outerlands Revolutionary Committee, which organised small bands, sometimes entire rebellions. Because of its activity, the international community pressured Colgasia to shut down the NRO. Colgasia was funding and helping these revolutionaries get smuggled across borders up to the point when it almost made an open war with TBD, after the TBD incident in 1922. The Colgasian athorities started arresting and prosecuting members of the NRO which marked the end of this organisation.

Before the First Great War

Colgasian nationalism has drastically changed since the failure of the Lanner Rebellion in 1776. Many people fled Colgasia after the end of the insurgency seeking refuge in neighboring countries and across the seas. The core of the separatist movement has shifted into the diaspora which soon started following foreign trends. The old separatist movement did not have a political program, whereas the new generation which attended universities, in countries such as Midrasia, Atresca, Cuirpthe and Tricladia, started looking outwards learning about new political concepts. The predecessor to the NRO was actually a number of organisations. The Colgasian emigration created its first organisations in 17th century, but the first ideologically profiled movements emerged in the 18th century. The firs Colgasian student unions were formed in 1830s all across the Colgasian diaspora. These student unions were fairly nationalist and made an overture in 1841 when they organized the The First Colgasian Congress in Báideaigheadh, Tricladia. Many would say that these student organisations were the predecessors to the NRO, which is partially true. A wave of unrest swept across Colgasia in 1860s when Colgasia started being known as a land of bandits. Small units of brigands were roaming the mountain ranges and woods of Colgasia which gave rise to romanticism. Stories of these renegades soon reached the diaspora and many wished to join these people.

The NRO began forming in 1870 when a few groups of students joined together to form the Colgasian Revolutionary Brotherhood which aimed to send aid to brigands from Colgasia. The CRB had sent a few groups of armed men into Colgasia hoping that they could make an armed rebellion but without much success. The first groups were arrested or shot by the Camrian authority and many native Colasians did not take these groups seriously since many of these were comprised of the Colgasian diaspora who never were in their homeland before that in addition to not speaking fluent Colgasian. In 1873, a group of members critical of the work of the CRB established the National Revolutionary Organisation. The organization was a secret revolutionary society with the goal of an independent Colgasian state which would be formed on the ethnic territory where Colgasians were native.

The organisation was founded by Arthek Tremayn, Ruan An Gov, Meryasek Chi Nowydh, Hedrok Trevuthik and Gwalather Golerewi. Most of them used to be students at the University of Báideaigheadh. They established the basic principles of the organisation:

1. The revolutionary organization must be established within Colgasia in order to gain recognition from the local populace.
2. Its founders should be locals and living in Colgasia.
3. The political goal of the organisation must be full independence of the Colgassian people.
4. The organization must be secret and independent, without any connections to the governments of neighboring countries.
5. The Colgasian revolutionary emigration must be steered to liberate our land from Colgasia, not outside of it.