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The conflict was the result of a context of strong political, economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions. The immediate causes of the war in 1967 included the arrest of secessionist terrorists, the abolition of the ethnonationalist party Only Yallo! , the ban on members from public office and episodes of ethno-religious violence.
On January 15, 1966, Majors Karl Mars with Teo Lifelong, and other young army officers attempted a coup. The governor of Afragola, Armando Bello and the mayor of New Arsfly, Jersey Swed were kidnapped and shot by Captain Edoardo Lunês. Armando Bello's wife, Martina Decrob, senior army officers and members of the statele section of the [[
Faced with the provocation of the pro-secession media, controlled by the junta, which repeatedly displayed humiliating posters and cartoons of the killed politicians, on the night of July 29, 1966, the Phoenixian soldiers at the barracks of Gervasio and Lesbos mutinied, thus provoking a counter-coup, which it had already been in the planning stages. The counter-coup led to the creation of counter insurgents in the central region of Afragola, led by Lieutenant Colonel Gérard Radium. The colonel organized some offensives and reprisals to unite the two pockets, creating an internal front for the republic of Bours.
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