Ebelinian Revolution (1989-1992)

The Ebelinian Revolution was the conflict that ended the age-old state of Ebeline and created the new nation of Zootron.

Since the rise of the Socialists in Ebeline in 1957, the country as a whole had endured immense hardship. After decades of the oppressive regime, the people could go on no more, and mass protests began. On October 15th, 1989, after protesters had occupied the central square of Ebeline City for three days, the Ebelinian 5th Mechanized Brigade opened fire on unarmed protesters with tanks. Photos smuggled out of the country of the massacre were widely circulated in by the Airedalandian media. The shock of the Airedalandian public would eventually spark action, and on October 19th, after an emergency session of the Airedalandian National Parliament, an immediate, universal embargo was put in place against Ebeline.

After the massacre in Ebeline City, the protesters turned to rioters, and then to guerillas. The combined civil unrest and guerilla war proved too much for the Ebelinian military to handle, and, following the assassination of Supreme Leader Albert Gullick, the Socialists retreated from the capital, already under siege. However, the exhausted Ebelinian Army could barley manage an organized withdrawal, and at the disastrous Battle of Ziltron Hill, the Ebelinian Army suffered a deathblow.

Soon, soldiers began defecting to the rebels, and the main remnant of the Ebelinian Army, an estimated 20% of its former size and now consisting almost exclusively of the hardline Ebelinan Security Service was encircled at Zeptron. There many remnants of the Ebelinian military fought to the death, but there was now no hope. Crippled by the newly-enforced multinational naval blockade, the last remaining Ebelinian forces surrendered on July 2nd, 1992, barring the 7th Artillery Division, which was defeated on the 18th following a combined Airedalandian-Valhunnian intervention with special forces, acting on intelligence that suggested that General Bradley Hunter, former Commander-in Chief of the Ebelinian military and leader of the remaining forces was plotting a nuclear attack against Airedalandia, Valhunnia and major cities of Ebeline under rebel control.

In late 1992, with the Socialists finally defeated, the constitution of the newly proclaimed Federated States of Zootron was being drafted, and the revolution was over, ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity in the region.