Westerzee Troubles
| West Coast Troubles | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Factions | |||||
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Westerzee, Tussenland Corean Tussenlanders ANAN The Free State (from 1953) De Clercq family |
Voor National Party The Free State (to 1953) Goudpaert family | ||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||
| 3,700 | 7,300 | ||||
The West Coast Troubles (Amerikaens: Onrust aen de Westkust, Corean: 웨서지폭동 lit. 'Westerzee riots') was a period of unrest and insurgency lasting from 1948 to 1954 in Westerzee, the Free State, and parts of northwestern Mexico. The era is defined by the ethnonationalist insurgencies of the Voor National Party, the genesis of the Association of North American Nations (ANAN) as a major continental organisation, and the rise of Anti-Atlanticism - opposition to European influence in America.
The conflict ebbed to a close with the 1953 Free State coup d'état, when pro-ANAN forces removed the Voor-origin Goudpaert family from power and installed the De Clercqs. By 1954, violence subsided with mutual attrition and the convening of the New Chilung Conference, a peace conference attended by Tussenland, New Netherland, and the Voor National Party agitators.
Background
Starting point
Scholarly consensus usually points to the Asiatic Migration Act in 1940 as the first trigger of the conflict. The legislation, supported by federal, provincial, and local authorities, increased the quota for Corean (and more generally Asian) immigration to Westerzee, a province which already had an Asian plurality. It was strongly opposed by the Voor National Party (VNP), which viewed increased Asian-Tussenlander domination of the region as a threat to their cultural and national interests.
In 1941, a VNP Congress decided to embark on a more violent approach to reach their goals. Soon after, Voor commandos and mutineers attacked a garrison in southern Westerzee, seizing weapons and armoured vehicles. This came to be known as the 1941 Waterloo incident and is said to be the origin of the wider conflict.
