New Shingleton Incident

== About ==
The New Shingleton Incident (aka. Naujojo Šingeltono incidentas, Нов инцидент в Шингълтън) was a catastrophic incident which had occurred in the midnight hours of November 15th 1989. It initially began not long after an Orange Airlines Boeing 747 which was set to land on mainland Bistonia was shot down by a Crimsonian missile after taking off from the runway. The Orange Airlines Boeing 747 aircraft which had been shot down, had carried over a hundred Bistonian refugees in the St. Ark Federation and was one of the airplanes involved in returning over a huge crowd of refugees back to mainland Bistonia, following the late phases of the Crimsonian-Bistonian War. The aircraft which had been blown to pieces then crashed into the sea, located near Pescavillagio, a nearly deserted city located near the only land border with the Republic of Bistonia. The perpetrator was discovered to be a man named Zhukov, a descendant of one of the Crimsonian immigrants who arrived to the St. Ark Federation in the 1900s. He was later on shot, along with his entire family.
Following the events which had happened, the crowds had attempted to break through and run outside of the facility for safety, but were abruptly stopped by the St. Ark Military Police, which had demanded them to calm down otherwise they would face brutal action. This resulted in the crowd getting more hostile, and after attempts to break through the windows, the St. Ark Military Police chief ordered many of his personnel to shoot everyone on sight, resulting in possibly over 400 to 600 dead. In the end, the New Shingleton Incident was catastrophic, and as many attempts to cover it up failed, the incident eventually became the symbol of a new revolution brewing in the St. Ark Federation, and attributed to the beginning of the Hadshellad Revolution, days before Fred Goldlock's 10 year martial law was set to end, and eventually, the collapse of the St. Ark Federation military government.
In the end, after the heat had calmed down after a provisional government was established, the New Shingleton International Airport reopened in 1990, only to be closed down in 1993 and demolished to make way for a completely brand new terminal. There were survivors of the incident, which still lived today to tell the truth of what had happened, with the example being Fryderyk Jan Winogrodzki, whom by 2008, passed away after suffering numerous complications from a gunshot wound sustained from a mass shooting in 2007, but in 2000 had provided an insight into what had happened. Although the perpetrators had been dead, and Crimsonia had lost the war and collapsed, the New Shingleton incident became controversial within Crimsonia's modern day politics along with Bistonia, and this incident would strain further relationships. Since the events, the locations had drastically changed, as the Scattered Islands Archipelago had now been demolished and left behind, and the main terminal where the massacre had occurred was now demolished. The incident became part of a controversy within Crimsonia's far-left and far-right groups, who claim that Crimsonia and it's intelligence had no such affiliation with the incident, and claimed that Zhukov was a man who had done practically nothing. To this day, the New Shingleton Incident continues to be heard of, and the incident was what continued to strain most of St. Ark's relationships with their neighboring countries. 
== Background ==
=== Crimsonian-Bistonian War ===
Since 1987, the People's Republic of Crimsonia faced the Republic of Bistonia in a brutal, unnecessary conflict known as the Crimsonian-Bistonian War. As the war had been dragged for over a few years, the Crimsonian military was on the verge of collapsing, as they had suffered heavy losses in the frontlines along with losing chunks of their occupied territory. In 1989, they launched their final offensive to the Bistonian capital city of New Vilnius, which had failed and as a result their occupied territory dwindled. Seeing that there was no possible way for Crimsonia to win the war, they would begin a type of different war and would take it to extreme lengths, such as carrying out terrorist attacks and being behind a majority of the drugs being smuggled into neighboring countries, which Crimsonia had considered inferior and those who allegedly sabotaged their efforts in the war. As that became ineffective, they would begin to resort on attacks on Bistonian refugees living in the St. Ark Federation, and those who applied for asylum in foreign countries. 
Infact, prior to the New Shingleton Incident, there was a record of attacks made towards Bistonian refugees, including a hostage crisis, 5 events in which car bombings were involved, and stabbings became a majority of their tactics used against Bistonian refugees. In response to the growing discrimination, the St. Ark Federation, despite not being tolerant of the Lithuanian minority living in the country, condemned these acts and claimed that they were not affiliated with Crimsonian intelligence whatsoever, as media coverage of these events had speculated that a majority of them were spies due to their names and backgrounds. The St. Ark Military Police, notorious for their gruesome crimes, ignored these aswell, and these attacks continued until the events of November 15th 1989.
=== Deteriorating with the People's Republic of Crimsonia ===
Prior to the year of 1987, the St. Ark Federation established ties with the People's Republic of Crimsonia, and during that point became one of their most prominent allies. Crimsonian products produced from the mainland were exported to the St. Ark Federation which helped relieve the country of decades worth of sanctions, which resulted in an outrage by the Bistonian government, although during this the condemnation had went nowhere and things relatively went peaceful from there on. Crimsonia, being a brand new prominent ally of the St. Ark Federation and recently relieved most of them from economic sanctions, would also have ties to Fred Goldlock and his oligarchy, with the Crimsonian elite having the ability to attend and host parties and have private residences in the country. Because of these ties, the People's Republic of Crimsonia was allowed to establish their own embassy in the country.
All of this would continue well until the year of 1987, when the People's Republic of Crimsonia declared war on the Republic of Bistonia, resulting in a 3 year long conflict known as the Crimsonian-Bistonian War. Days went by in the war, and the People's Republic of Crimsonia had called for the St. Ark Federation to mobilize and intervene in the war, as part of Crimsonia's goals in the war. This however was not such a good idea within the St. Ark Federation military government, and Fred Goldlock, knowing Crimsonia's intentions, refused to join the war and instead mobilized his forces around his country, and declared a neutral policy. Fred Goldlock, being paranoid of the war, would begin a series of events where he avoided a war with Crimsonia from happening. This however, backfired, as the People's Republic of Crimsonia had condemned his government for their actions, and as a result relations deteriorated. Fred Goldlock ordered that Crimsonian products would be banned and their imports would be halted from being in the country. He then ordered a raid on the Crimsonian Embassy, in which Fred Goldlock claimed the embassy had plotted for his assassination. This in turn, was a huge mistake, as the Crimsonian Embassy was heavily armed, resulting in a siege and eventually, resulted in the deaths of almost all personnel within the Crimsonian Embassy. Following this, Fred Goldlock ordered the expulsion of all Crimsonian foreigners in the country, and the seizure of assets which were provided to the Crimsonian elite. In the aftermath, the People's Republic of Crimsonia cut ties with the St. Ark Federation.
After the People's Republic of Crimsonia cut ties with the St. Ark Federation, things did not go well and it did not end there. Although most Crimsonian nationals were banned from entering into the country, Crimsonian intelligence established a presence there, and had blended in well with the civilian population. They had a main motive, and would not get rid of until they met that goal. This was however unfortunately, uncovered with the help of those who defected, and with the help of the St. Ark Military Police, cracked down on safehouses connected to Crimsonian intelligence, along with bases of operations and in some cases, all of the people involved had been shot. This did not make them back down, as Crimsonian intelligence still held a few base of operations in New Shingleton, along with Jefferson, a place where the St. Ark Military Police did not want to go to. Eventually, following the few days before Fred Goldlock's 10 year martial law would end, the St. Ark Federation military government reopened the country's borders to the international world, allowing Bistonian refugees who fled to the country to return back to mainland Bistonia. This was however, an advantage point for Crimsonian intelligence, as they could carry out attacks in large numbers.
=== Planned motive ===
There were dozens of plans for carrying out an attack on large crowds of Bistonian refugees, some involved car bombs while some involved mass shootings in which people could've died a quicker death, while some involved bribing the St. Ark Military Police and then detonating a bomb on one of the aircraft. But, their most planned out motive, was on the New Shingleton International Airport. One of the places where the Bistonian refugees went to return back to mainland Bistonia, this airport was somehow picked instead of several airports located around the country. With this, there were dozens of theories as to why they had pulled this and what were their motives. There were no motives held from one of the perpetrators, as all of them had been shot before they could conversate. One of the main motives for the incident was to halt the flow of Bistonian refugees from returning to mainland Bistonia, and in response to Fred Goldlock's crackdown on Crimsonian assets, foreigners and trade, others varied, such as to being related to the St. Ark Military Police, related to the New Shingleton Resistance in an attempt to destabilize the country, while some said it happened to feel sympathy for the Bistonian refugees, a theory, which was used by Crimsonian supremacist groups and heavily controversial within the modern world.
=== Prior to the incidents ===
Prior to the incident, a few days from November 15th, the council appointed by Fred Goldlock announced the reopening of the countries borders, including the reopening of trade and travel internationally to the world. This meant that Bistonian refugees, which had been staying in the country for asylum for over 2 years since the Crimsonian-Bistonian War started, could return back to mainland Bistonia, and at a good time considering the war had been nearly over, as Bistonian troops were on the verge of capturing Kagengrad. Following all of these events, it culminated in a series of chaotic rush hours, as airports located across the St. Ark Federation were filled to the brink with refugees attempting to return back to mainland Bistonia, and services were largely overwhelmed. As the end of martial law was just around the corner, Fred Goldlock did not have the time to quell the unrest in Jefferson, as resistance in New Shingleton was growing more than ever. Because of the mass influx, Crimsonia saw the St. Ark Federation reopening its borders as an eyesore, as Bistonian refugees were returning back. Crimsonia, now wanting more and more bloodshed, would then send those worthy enough to carry out terrorist attacks, such as mass stabbings in a district full of Bistonian refugees. The St. Ark Military Police began chasing them, and before November 15th, it was clear that the St. Ark Military Police was going to execute most of them.
Prior to the incident, an Orange Airlines Boeing 747 aircraft was bound to be headed from New Shingleton to the city of New Vilnius, with a stopover in the city of Mazoji, they were also given permission to fly by both governments, however like most aircraft in the vicinity, it was booked by hundreds of Bistonian refugees who seeked to return to Bistonia after the war, in the Crimsonian side, they began their focus on the aircraft, as it had a large quantity, their plans were simple, to send over 4 from their groups to the Steven Ogg International Airport and hold hundreds of refugees hostage and start a crisis where they would meet their demands. However before they could conduct their plans, the St. Ark military police had discovered them as they had been wearing pants belonging to the Crimsonian army, and they were then caught in the diner a short distance away from the entrance of the airport. They were then escorted out of the diner and placed in a van were they were shot by a Assault Rifle. They were then wrapped in fabric and placed in metal coffins outside of the van, and they were placed in an unmarked gravesite.
As their plan to hold an entire plane hostage had failed, the Crimsonians moved to plan B, which was a more violent approach to halt the influx of Bistonian refugees returning to the country. It involved a Crimsonian missile which was installed inside an abandoned building, which was once a navy quarters belonging to the United States of Megaton and Columbia before the independence of St. Ark in 1957, which would be fired and shot directly into the fuselage of the plane once it passed near Petrusca Village using a man who would be named as Zhukov, who was a spy who avoided detection. Then, a hidden location for Crimsonian intelligence known as Cafe Bistonia was spotted and raided by the authorities.
== The Incident ==
=== Murder of Katie Clifton ===
On November 14th, nearly a day before the incident had began, personnel and commuters who had walked by a store known as "Vacation Accessories" had reported smelling a horrible smell coming from the store. The store, had been closed 2 weeks prior following the fire incident which had occurred on the upper floors, but the store's belongings were left inside as the store was closed temporarily. The staff, which had been ordered by the management to open up the store to inspect the store, had been shocked to find a decomposing body laying on what seemed to be a pool of blood dried up on the door, which had almost spread to the door. The authorities were later contacted, and before they could potentially investigate and arrive on time, the St. Ark Military Police had intervened before them. An investigation was launched afterwards, and media coverage spread around the Jefferson area. The decomposing body was later on identified as 28 year old Katie Clifton, who worked in the store. As the store had been closed for 2 weeks, with her inside, it was assumed that she had died on that day. Investigators discovered a knife, in which it was rumored that Katie Clifton had committed suicide in the store, with a bloody knife on the table used as evidence. This was later on not proven, as investigations into Katie Clifton's life and background concluded that she had no mental illnesses or problems. Her colleagues were immediately blamed for the murder, but after brief further investigation, they were not responsible for the murder as they had been in Jefferson. The investigation was unfortunately stopped, as the New Shingleton Incident had occurred, and after the cleanup, most of the blood had been cleaned up and the evidence was already gathered. Investigation continued in 1993, in which fingerprints were discovered on the shelves, including the knife which was apparently used in the murder. It was later on confirmed, that it was indeed a murder, and not suicide. 
The suspect, Jeffrey Maddington, was identified later on and apprehended 2 months later, when he was staying in his apartment, a mile long drive where the airport was located. Jeffrey Maddington confessed to the murder, and later on admitted to doing it claiming that he had an affair with Katie, but after deteriorating relations between the two, Jeffrey Maddington confronted her during the closing hours, when only 2 people were there at the time, including Katie. After she insulted him, Jeffrey, would lunge at her, and with a knife that he had recently bought, stabbed her in the abdomen. Katie then later on died from her wounds, and Jeffrey left her on the floor without attempting to cover it up. As the store was about to close temporarily, Jeffrey placed the knife on the counter, closed the stores lights, and closed it while making sure the windows had been closed up. He got away with the crime for over 4 years, until he was found. Jeffrey Maddington was sentenced to 34 years in prison, where he later on died.
=== Aircraft involved ===
=== Crackdown by the St. Ark Military Police ===
=== Night of November 15th 1989 ===
=== Takeoff and crash ===
As it reached midnight, the Orange Airlines Boeing 747 aircraft was bound to take off from New Shingleton to the city of New Vilnius, with the city of Mazoji being its stopover, over 356 passengers boarded the aircraft, with the majority of them being Bistonian refugees. It then took off from Steven Ogg International Airport at around 11:14 PM and took a turn around the airport mid-air. It then flew towards the Scattered Islands archipelago, at around this time a broadcast was made from the Georgi Dimitrov Military Base to the abandoned building over a distance away from the area where the missile was fired from. During this time the aircraft was serving dinner to the passengers mid-air after takeoff, then at around 11:32 PM, Zhukov was given permission to fire a missile directly towards the plane, and launched it towards the aircraft, however a malfunction occurred inside the missile which forced it suddenly land into the waters near Petrusca Village, presumably due to the condition of the missile. After the first round failed to launch, Zhukov out of desperation launched another missile, this time it would be fatal and successful.
The missile then struck at the back fuselage of the plane including the back wings, which instantly killed some of its passengers in the cabin. The plane then suddenly began breaking into pieces, including the cockpit of the plane. The wings suddenly exploded which killed another round of passengers and as a result the plane was set ablaze, resulting in many passengers sustaining major burn injuries to the body and corpses charred as a result. Then afterwards the pieces of the plane then went down below the ocean near Pescavillagio, due to the low sea levels, parts of the plane could be visibly seen. Fragments of the plane also floated on the ocean and the fire remained burning. After the plane crashed, dozens near the area of the site witnessed the plane crash, resulting in a panic by passengers in Steven Ogg International Airport.
=== First responses ===
=== Massacre ===
As hundreds began panicking and attempting to flee the airport, the St. Ark Military Police blocked the entrance as an attempt to quell the desperate crowd, which had pleaded to escape the airport. As the crowd grew violent, windows were broken by crowds who attempted to escape the airport on the other sides, the first rounds of live ammunition were then fired which resulted in dozens dead as they attempted to flee the area, flights were then cancelled and planes were left abandoned near the terminal. Because of the tension, the chief received a phone call from one of the officers, and as a result ordered the permission to kill all civillians on sight who had resisted. A minute after, the massacre began.
Rounds were fired towards civillians through windows and blood began splattering all over the walls and floors, and bodies began piling up one and another. Some of them also attempted to hide from the officers in stores inside the airport, with the majority of them being shot. As a result, over 542 civillians were shot dead. As the clock struck 12:00 PM, the chief halted permission to kill the civillians on sight, ending the shootout. Civillians who survived had been forced out into lines where they were evacuated from the airport using the Green Line through Ambelaide Station. Pilots, flight attendants, staff personnel and over a dozen refugees were shot dead. Then, the chief ordered many of the bodies inside the airport to be dragged and carried out into military trucks outside of the airport.
Then afterwards, the St. Ark Military Police discovered the location of where the missile was launched with the help of eyewitnesses which had survived the shootout, and a team was then rushed to the scene using old Wercell Tugboats near the fire station with the help of firefighters, and 10 minutes after, they had arrived in Zhukov's residence including Petrusca Village. Many workers from Petrusca Village who was working in Zhukov's fishing company were also rounded up and shot to death by the military police, they had also arrived to Zhukov's residence where they also rounded up the Zhukov family including the perpetrator and also shot him. Many personal belongings and furniture belonging to the Zhukov family including the workers in Petrusca Village were then stolen and burned down into a pit. Then, the St. Ark Military Police then arrived to the Georgi Dimitrov Military Base doubled with the amount, as the base belonged to the People's Republic of Crimsonia. A clash ensued and resulted in Military Police finally securing the base. As they breached into the underground sectors of the base they had broke nearly everything including machinery, and also caught many of the commanders responsible for the attack. They were then rounded up and shot and then they were dumped into the ocean.
=== Massacre on the Scattered Islands Archipelago ===
=== Aftermath ===
=== Cleanup and attempted cover up ===
== Aftermath ==
=== Symbol for resistance and Hadshellad Revolution ===
2 days before the downfall of Fred Goldlock's regime, the Steven Ogg International Airport closed down temporarily and the company which had constructed the airport was ordered to cleanup the massacre which had occurred. Water and electricity was cut from the airport. By then, fragments of the plane which had been floating near Pescavillagio had been spotted including eyewitness accounts. Then, media outlets began flocking to the site where it had occurred and they were then apprehended. By then the coverup was too late, as news of the incident began spreading nationwide and globally, with the president of the United States of Megaton and Columbia citing it as a catastrophic incident. 2 days later, it became one of the factors which had caused Fred Goldlock's regime to collapse. An investigation was launched 12 days after the incident, with the Commonwealth of United and Free Nations officials intervening in the investigation.
After weeks, an operation began which involved the cleanup of the site of the plane crash, as it had contaminated the ocean surrounding the site, the wreck of the plane was then retrieved using tugboats and months later the plane crash site was cleared. The Scattered Islands Archipelago including many of its remaining indigenous inhabitants were also forced to evacuate the area by both the St. Ark Federation and the Provisional Government of Bistonia including inhabitants in the microstate of the . It was dissolved the following day.
=== Investigation ===
=== Cleanup ===
=== Evacuation of the Scattered Islands Archipelago and dissolution of the Republic of Seruditium ===
=== Rescue efforts ===
=== Media coverage ===
=== St. Ark Military Police ===
=== Modern period ===
=== Influence in Crimsonian and Bistonian politics ===
== Perpetrators ==
=== Zhukov ===
=== The Four Men ===
=== Others ===
== Responses from foreign countries ==
After the New Shingleton incident, reactions by world governments were fierce and had sometimes change their views on the world forever. In the United States of Megaton and Columbia, they had placed restrictions on public transportation in order to avoid any catastrophic incidents. In the Republic of Zedrutia, military police was deployed to Kromząmske and Tarnochowice to prevent future incidents.
=== People's Republic of Crimsonia ===
The People's Republic of Crimsonia, despite being held responsible for the New Shingleton Incident, had denied any claims of committing terrorist attacks in the St. Ark Federation, however after the Mesothemian Organization decided to bomb Kradovo as an attempt to force Crimsonia to accept their involvement, the Crimsonian government had then officially announced that they held responsibility for the deadly attack, and accepted the ultimatium received by the Commonwealth of United and Free Nations and other countries, however the government had largely ignored the ultimatium and never gave other countries demands until the end of the Crimsonian-Bistonian War in 1990. Despite the incident they still continued to operate bases in the Scattered Islands archipelago until the 2000s.
=== Provisional Government of Bistonia ===
In the New Shingleton Incident, nearly a thousand Bistonian nationals were killed, in which the Provisional Government of Bistonia responded. They had demanded that the St. Ark Federation should place restrictions and relax the sudden influx of Bistonian refugees returning to the mainland. However due to fierce relations between the two and the overthrow of Fred Goldlock's regime, this demand was never put in place. The Provisional Government of Bistonia also had to deal with the People's Republic of Crimsonia at the time, which didn't give them enough time to force the St. Ark Federation into the demands. The Bistonian government also ordered all civillians from the Scattered Islands archipelago to evacuate the area as it had been contaminated.
=== Republic of Zedrutia ===
The Republic of Zedrutia responded days after the New Shingleton Incident by deploying their military police to the unstable State of Kromząmske and Tarnochowice in an attempt to prevent other future events from happening. Military police withdrew from Kromząmske and Tarnochowice in the year of 1994.
=== United States of Megaton and Columbia ===
Days after receiving news from what had happened in New Shingleton, the president of the United States of Megaton and Columbia had called the incident a catastrophic incident, and as a result restrictions were placed on public transportation across the country until the complete collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the end of the Cold War.
=== Commonwealth of United and Free Nations ===
The Commonwealth of United and Free Nations responded with condemnation towards the People's Republic of Crimsonia, and after an investigation was launched regarding the New Shingleton Incident, many officials from the Commonwealth of United and Free Nations began intervening in the investigation.
=== Mesothemian Organization ===
The Mesothemian Organization, after receiving news of the New Shingleton Incident, had enough of Crimsonian terrorist attacks and as a result demanded that Crimsonia should accept the ultimatium after they had refused dozens of times. After Crimsonia continued to deny their involvement in the incident the Mesothemian Organization was given permission to fly their jets into the People's Republic of Crimsonia and bombard factories in Kradovo, which overwhelmed the industry in the city. They had finally forced Crimsonia to admit their attacks and accept the ultimatium, something that they had not done for 40 years.
== Memorials dedicated to the incident ==
== Rumors ==
== Survivors ==
=== Fryderyk Jan Winogrodzki ===
=== Others ===
== Casualties ==