Kijuju Autonomous Zone Incident

Kijuju Autonomous Zone Incident The Kijuju Autonomous Zone was hit hard in the 21st century as it met the dawning threat of bioterrorism and the subsequent nationalist revolution it caused, prompting intervention by the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance.

Background
The events leading up to Kijuju's destruction can be traced back to Leon S. Kennedy's investigation of Los Iluminados cult in 2004. Former Umbrella virologist, social darwinist and eugenicist Albert Wesker sought after a sample of the Dominant Species Plaga. Although his agent, Ada Wong, ultimately betrayed him, he nonetheless got what he was looking for from the corpse of Jack Krauser, of which enough of it survived the Iluminados' base's self-destruct system to be collected for future research.

TRICELL's first known exploration into the realm of virological study into mutagenic viruses came in 2005 when they bought-out the fallen WilPharma Corporation, which had collapsed financially when it was revealed that one of its employees, Frederic Downing, was using the t-Virus in bioterrorist attacks to promote it on the bio-weapons black market, itself promoting the company's t-Virus vaccine.

Albert Wesker began working with TRICELL in their bio-weapons research project. The Plaga parasites were genetically-modified by the company to better-suit the black market. As such, the "Type 2 Plagas" were developed. The primary issue at this point in development was the time between implantation of the egg and the host's total loss of control over their actions; in order to make the parasites more commercial, they were re-designed to be implanted in a mature form, rather than as an egg. As seen by BSAA agents Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar in 2009, it would take mere seconds for the parasite to take control, rather than hours.

Early 2008 - initial trials
In April 2008, TRICELL bean to experiment on the new "Type 3 Plagas" by using the Sodibaya tribe as test subject's. In the case of the Sodibaya of the wetlands, they were fooled into accepting "medical treatment" for an undisclosed disease. Over the next nine days the tribe began to descend into madness as they were plagued by the parasites - the young died, followed by their grieving mothers. The men, filled with unguided rage, began wearing traditional garments with war painting. By the end of it, some began exhibiting unusual mutations, such as excessive growth.

Overall the test was a disappointment - the new version of the parasites killed off large numbers of their hosts (it should be taken into account, however, that the parasites were naturally incompatible with a child's physiology). The concept of the project was to engineer a cross between the dominant and subordinate-strain Plagas, using the dominant strain's mutanogenic abilities to potentially develop supersoldiers on the black market. TRICELL continued to research into this possibility.

Late 2008/Early 2009 - catastrophe
Among the first feeling that something strange was happening can be found in Adam's blogspot post on December 23, 2008. Walking around Kijuju, he spotted the carcass of a dog, which had been killed and decapitated. He just couldn't understand why someone would feel the need to decapitate it and leave the body rather than, for example, selling the meat at the local butcher shop. Adam continued to suspect the local butcher, despite the lack of evidence that he was involved, other than that he had knives capable of decapitating the creature.

On December 25, a number of quarrymen - likely all non-Kijujians - were chosen to be moved to another quarry away from Kijuju. While Adam couldn't tell if the list was random or deliberate, he was disappointed that his friends were on the list. Later that night, Adam began talking to Allyson, another English-speaking migrant to the area; she too had noticed a strange increase in grotesquely-mutilated carcasses littering the streets since the start of December. By now nationalist posters and graffiti were being put up on walls around Kijuju, along with mysterious blood trails leading to nowhere.

Returning to Kijuju after being with his parents for the New Year, Adam arrived to a changed Kijuju. He began to feel like he was being watched by everyone, which increased his suspicions of the butcher, who he now suspected to be connected to the nationalist posters and could possibly be attempting some sort of revolution. It is also interesting to note that this butcher had some form of relationship to BSAA informant Reynard Fisher.

On January 16, the nationalist atmosphere became increasingly evident when a man in sunglasses began ranting on how the migrants must be thrown out of Kijuju, portraying them as evil invaders. A protest to make the man cease his ranting with the throwing of a bottle led to the entire bar descending in a brawl over nationalist ideology. In the ensuing bar fight, the bar's owner was killed, the building destroyed and the alcohol ransacked.

By January 23 the city had descended into violence when a number of badly-beaten corpses, bundled into sacks, were piled on top of the Public Assembly and set alight. It was when the body of the butcher shop owner fell out of the burning bags that Adam's fears were confirmed.

Not opening his curtains for a whole week, Adam recognised some of his "transferred" workmates in the crowd. Finally working up the courage to go outside, Adam discovered what had happened to the bar.

On February 6, Allyson's hotel came under attack from the nationalist protesters; her boyfriend and a number of other foreigners were dragged out by the Kijujians and presumably killed. She fled to Adam's apartment, seeking shelter.

On February 13, public executions began in the Assembly, with foreigners being dragged to the stage and beheaded by a man wearing a black sack. Walking outside again, Adam noticed that the rotting carcasses of animals were now so common that they were seemingly-impossible to avoid; he also became convinced that some of the body parts were human. He also witnessed one man attack another, savagely dragging him into an alleyway and attacking him. Adam inspected the alleyway to find it sprayed with blood and the man doing something to his victim. This may have been Adam's first experience of someone implanting a Type 2 Plaga into a human body, though it gave him the impression of cannibalism. This day was also the first recorded sighting of the Adjule, a dog hosting the parasite.

The following week, on February 20, the Kijujian Army arrived in the area to fend off the still-inexplicable increase in hostility; to do so, they erected a giant wall in an attempt to fence-off the plaga-infested parts of the city from the unaffected parts. Anyone trying to escape were to be executed by the Army, though people were free to enter the enclosed area via the Civilian Checkpoint. By now, Adam had given up on looking out of the window, knowing far to well that every scream he heard was that of another person being killed.

On February 27, Allyson left Adam to seek a way out of Kijuju, tired of him spending day-in, day-out on the computer seeking help from other people.

March 2009 - BSAA deployment
In March 2009, the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance received word of a bio-weapons deal involving Ricardo Irving, who had been known to advertise his collection in Africa. Irving, himself, was responsible for infesting the tribesmen with Type 3 Plagas, and may have been connected with the spread of the Type 2 Plagas amongst the Kijujians. However, the BSAA was still unaware of the parasite's role in the nationalist sentiment; Fisher, himself believed it to merely be tension related to the recent change in government.

In the hopes of apprehending Irving, the BSAA's North American branch sent over their Alpha team to the "deal coordinates", a storage facility. Unbeknownst to them, the rumour of a bio-weapons deal was spread itself by Irving's allies, who wanted to remove the BSAA from the equation. With Alpha team at the facility, Irving and former-BSAA agent Jill Valentine released an Uroboros test subject into the facility. The creature would seen after proceed to kill everyone in the team bar its commander, Captain Dan DeChant, who died from his wounds shortly-after, before consuming their bodies to add to its biomass.

Shortly before this attack, BSAA Special Operations Agents Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar entered the sealed area of Kijuju by posing as American tourists not connected with the organization. Collecting their equipment from Reynard, who had based himself within the butcher's shop, they soon after discovered the parasite's endemicity to the region. It was during their approach to the town square that Reynard was captured and taken there, himself. Chris and Sheva soon after witnessed their informant's execution by the axe-wielding Majini. The Majini soon turned their attention to the two BSAA members; Adam noticed their successful repel of the Majini from his hotel room, also witnessing Kirk Mathison destroying a gate with a rocket launcher from his helicopter. Recognising their patch, Adam came to the rightful conclusion that the strange behaviour of the locals was due to some sort of bioterrorist action.

Unfortunately, while heading over to the storage facility to help Alpha team, Chris came into contact with Allyson, who had escaped the Majini on her own for a whole week only to be dragged away in front of her would-be rescuers and implanted with a Plaga; she later attacked Chris and Sheva, who would be forced to kill her.