All, doing a 5 minute freewrite. Thank you for reading.

The day the people have been waiting for is finally here. The general finally had no more authority over the people in the region he once controlled.
5 years ago, the general took the region by force due to the weakened government and had been ruling the place in using a military style. The people in the region didn't like it but could do nothing as they were powerless against a man that control a big army.
However, just last year, a new leader emerged from the previous weakened government and started finding opportunities to rebuild themselves and overthrow the authority of the general. It took them a good year of planning and gathering an army of their own. And when the opportunity came, they took control of the region and restart a government that was making decisions through democracy and not military style.