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SOUTHPORT-ON-SEA - Minister of Defense says "sending away" Nord conscripts will be upheld
The Ministry of Defense continues to refute calls from ethnic Nord and conscript activists to end the so-called "deployment distance" policy in regards to young Nord men serving as conscripts within the Confederal Northern Defense Forces. Minister of Defense Malcolm Harris (CDP) said today to CBC reporters that the CNDF would take no heed of the calls made by groups including the Nord faction of the opposition Democratic Party and the Soldiers' Rights Association.
"The people opposing this policy are deliberately trying to undermine our internal and external security, as well as making the conscripts serving our country pawns in their political agitation", Minister of Defense Harris said to the CBC in an interview granted in his office, "The terrorists with the NRA and the NMRS speak the same language and hail from the same cities as them, and the people opposed to this policy effectively want to make the Nords of our country fight a civil war. This should not happen."
Minister of Defense Harris also described accusations of ethnic discrimination related to the policy as a "pile of manure" and stated that "some people scream 'racism' every time someone farts in their general direction."
The policy of assigning ethnic Nords from Järnmark into Confederal Northern Defense Forces units located away from their home republic has been in force since the Nordic Republican Army started its armed activities in 1997. Among the main complaints stated by some of the critics of the policy has been that the compensation given to the conscripts does not account for their higher travel expenses, but the Ministry of Defense has promised to "set up a committee" to examine the issue.
Since the Anemone Revolution allowed a resurfacing of regional separatism, the Northern regions of Järnmark have been the subject of a violent insurgency by the Nordic Republican Army and the Northern Movement of the Red Star. Nordic conscripts do not typically serve in Järnmark to avoid emotionally scarring situations where might be forced to fight against NRA and NMRS members of their own cultural group.
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