2019 Kotaro terrorist attack

On the afternoon of March 15, 2019, Kotaro was the stage of Great Scorria's largest terrorist attack and the first one since 2000. The attack was planned by a Porowonian terrorist who had links to George Wangjia and had the plan of turning Great Scorria into a far-right state.

Peter Joro is allegedly 34 years old. He is one of Wangjia's relatives and threatens to kill the Great Scorrian president. His first attack was held at the Kotaro Mosque where he killed 32 citizens, mostly Tomalis, Bengalians, Malayanese and Karachistanis. In a second attack, he killed passersby, but suddenly his gun ran out of ammunition. The tally of deaths has rosen to 54, surpassing the record number of 41 of Kimberly Doomsday (June 29, 2000) by the Freedom Fighters. This attack also symbolizes the continuation of the dire state of relations between the two countries. In retaliation, Porowonian dissidents started the quickly-controversial #KillWangjia campaign.

Timeline

• 13:40: Joro sends a manifesto full of misspellings, saying that Porowon is a country for "East Sondrians" and that Porowon and Great Scorria should unify under the Porowonian regime. The Federal Parliament reports the manifesto to the police. Already at the car, Peter Joro says the following quote from Taro Nishimoto: "Let the invader die, and the attack begin."
• 13:41: Joro begins his attack by playing classic Porowonian songs. The car plays the controversial song from the Nishimoto administration "Defend Porowon", in English, whose lyrics include "Our nation, more than ever before, needs to be protected from evils".
• 13:43: Police officers reach the Kotaro Mosque.
• 13:46: Joro arrives at the mosque, surpassing the policemen, who were confused. The bloodshed begins.
• 13:50: Joro begins his second mission.
• 13:51: Is is believed that, by this time, Joro has ran out of ammunition.
• 13:53: All television channels interrupt regular programming to announce the assassination of dozens of "innocent Muslims".
• 13:57: One of Joro's relatives, who is anti-Wangjia, hacks TVGS and all channels are forced to screen the controversial Innocence of Porowonians film.
• 14:05: Another one of Joro's relatives, stuck in Porowon and working at the MCP, proceeds to hijack some of the MCP channels and radio stations in order to broadcast a 1976 propaganda film from the Hikaru Matsumoto regime.
• 14:13: TVGS resumes regular operations over its five channels.
• 14:16: President Stuart Akuroro delivers a nationwide speech announcing that Joro is considered to be a terrorist.
• 14:18: The Great Scorrian government announces that all mosques, schools and supermarkets are to shut down in order to prevent further attacks.
• 14:22: A secret news organization, Deep Web GS, has leaked further details to the general public. Joro's attack was planned for weeks.
• 14:27: Joro's Twitter account is banned.
• 14:31: Joro receives a call from Shkipian-Nashlandian Mr. Activist (famous for hijacking the stage of the final of the 2018 Eurectivision Song Contest during Nashland's song) praising him for the attack.
• 14:32: TVGS 1 and News screen the entire video, unfiltered.
• 14:48: TVGS receives a call from the Broadcasting Commission of Great Scorria and internet giants forcing them to start removing the footage of the massacre.
• 14:55: The MCP hijack stopped.
• 15:02: Radio signals in the Kotaro transmitter are hijacked. They are now playing the pre-1987 national anthem of Great Scorria, God Bless Great Scorria, relinquished in April 1987 by the Democratic Coalition.
• 15:20: RGS signals are hijacked.
• 15:28: Radio technicians drop the hijacked signals and stations are slowly being restored.

Reactions

International

• Michillies
• New Michillies: A similar attack hit Canterbury the same day.
• Northulia: Although no Northulian city was targeted by supremacists, Northulia sent out condolences.
• Porowon: Porowon was the only country to celebrate the attacks, especially the Kotaro one. The international community condemns.

Memorials

First anniversary

A memorial for the first anniversary of the attack was supposed to be held on March 15, 2020, however, due to safety concerns in Kotaro in November, the event was cancelled. All national radio and television stations are starting a TVGS/RGS-led period of silence, running from 13:40 to 14:34 - at 54 minutes in length in honor of the victims.

At the same time, George Wangjia and Peter Joro were supposed to start a provisional invasion of Kotaro.

Since then the federal governmentof Great Scorria wanted to keep the mosque as it was despite the purge. There are no plans from both the government and the FIAGS to reconvert it.