Alabasta Rebellion

The Arabasta Rebellion was founded because it was believed that King Cobra made the people of Arabasta suffer by stealing the rain through the use of Dance Powder.

This event took place throughout the Arabasta arc

Baroque Works
Throughout the Baroque Works Saga, it became clear that Baroque Works was behind the problems in Arabasta. It wasn't until late in the story arc that their leader Kohza became aware of the deception from Sir Crocodile ; by then it was almost too late to stop what had happened.

The Baroque Works Deception
Several measures by Baroque Works which led to the rebellion to occur:
 * Crocodile won the heart of the people through use of public appearance as one of the Shichibukai, becoming a hero to the people by rounding up other pirates. This led no one to suspect he was the master mind behind everything.
 * Baroque Works secretly used Dance Powder to cause the capital city to have abnormally high amounts of rain. The people didn't suspect a thing until it was noticed that other cities were getting below level rain amounts.
 * Many members were found bringing Dance Powder into the country, when questioned they said it was a delivery for the King.
 * Baroque Works assigned several of its members to join the Royal Guard, to aid in smuggling Dance Powder into the Palace. When the powder was found, this pushed the people into thinking their king was behind the lack of rain.  By this time, the younger citizens of Yuba were beginning to form ideas of Rebellion.
 * To make sure the Rebellion was pushed into place, several Baroque Members joined their ranks, even going so far as to become close officers to Kohza, who had become their leader.
 * With the aid of Mr.2 came the final spark that caused the rebellion to begin. First they kidnapped the King of Arabasta, then had Mr.2 pretend to be the King and admit to the people he had used the powder.  After Kohza was hurt during the incident, the Rebel army began its advancement on the capital.
 * A Baroque Works agent in the Royal Guard set off the rebels final assault by opening cannon fire on them "accidentally".
 * All efforts were made to stop Vivi from bringing the rebellion to a stand still. Firstly by preventing Kohza from seeing her, secondly by firing at Kohza when he surrendered and then by stopping the people from hearing Vivi shouting at them.

Rebels
The rebellion is led by Kohza, Vivi´s childhood friend. Among the rebels are even more of Kohza´s and Vivi´s childhood friends from the Suna Suna Clan as well as various Baroque Works member who joined to ensure their groups plans came to light. The rebel army reached 700,000 members before the appearance of Mr.2 as the King. By the time the attack on the capital city they had become a force of "2 million angry warriors" according to Chaka.

Major Members

 * Kohza
 * Erik
 * Farafra
 * Okame
 * Kebi

Battle of Alubarna
It is in this battle where in the Rebel Army charged to defeat the Royal Army and force the king of Arabasta to surrender. Not knowing that the war between them was actually engineered and being set up by the Baroque Works, led by Crocodile. Vivi would have blown up the Arabasta palace to catch the attention of the warriors fighting to urge them to stop the rebellion, but had failed to because of Crocodile. Kohza, the leader of the Rebel Army who knows the secret entrance to the palace, witnessed the commotion within and had found out that it was Crocodile who stole the rain. He and Vivi rushed to the Royal Army to make them surrender to the Rebel Army to stop the rebellion. But the Billions of Baroque Works who invaded the Royal Army shot Kohza and thus continued the war.

On the other hand, the Straw Hats fought their own battle. Usopp and Chopper fighting with Mr.4 and Miss Merry Christmas; Sanji with Mr.2 Bon Kurei; Nami with Miss Doublefinger; and Zoro fighting with Mr.1, also known as Das Bones. The Straw Hats crew won the battle.

Luffy also had a hard time defeating Crocodile, and had at last won after their 3rd battle.