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Why did the national government respond with personnel at all? If the national law, which all the states voted on in merely 1978, didn't allow for any state to
by ringaroundthetx 9y ago
Why did the national government respond with personnel at all?
If the national law, which all the states voted on in merely 1978, didn't allow for any state to unilaterally declare independence and this was deemed illegal and pointless, then why did they send police to enforce that, if it doesn't matter?
- gonvaled 9y agoA high turnout with a overwhelming vote for independence would have made it politically impossible to ignore. So they chose the next worse option: violent crack down. The least bad option would have been a negotiated referendum, with the full legitimacy of the State. And mind you, the separatists would have probably lost.