Barboisese Border Clashes

The Barboisese Border Clashes, also known as the Barboisese insurgency or Southern uprising in Barboise, was a failed attempt by Barboisese separatist groups like the Bou Casseau to declare an independent zone at the South of Barboise and the North of the Capital Territory, which lead to intense fighting at the border from the early 1990s to the 11th of November 2009 when the conflict was considered over, with most of the separatist groups fleeing back to the mountains of the Barboise valley to escape government troops.

## Beginning

The conflict originally begun when around two thousand men, most of them identified as belonging to the Bou Casseau entered and laid siege to the small village of Juraçe on the frontier with the Capital Territory and the Barboise on the 9th of May 1993. After this had just happened satellite surveillance of the area alerted the federal government that the siege was happening, and so a force of three thousand government troops belonging to the Sécurité Nationale, Conseil National de la Securité and the Forces Armées Françaises, the country's land army, were sent to the village to recover it. However, when the government troops got there they were violently counter-attacked with missile launchers, snipers and other long-range forces, which the government were unaware of, forcing them to retreat back to Lailleres, the nearest village, call for reinforcements, evacuate the locals and dig trenches there. After two days of not being attacked the local head of the government troops decided to launch an offensive into Juraçe, and managed to successfully eliminate most of the militants stationed there, however, what the government was unaware of was that the Bou Casseau captured Bosmont, another nearby village, while they were retreated. As the the head of the government troops, general Émil Lamilleaux, and his troops were celebrating their victory in Juraçe, they were informed by one of their scouts that Bosmont had been taken, so the following morning they launched an offensive on Bosmont, thinking it was going to be as easy as Juraçe, however, when the government troops got to Bosmont there were no militants. They searched the village for a couple of hours, before Bou Casseau troops surrounded the village and slaughtered most of the government troops. From this point onwards the Bou Casseau officially declared war to the Eastern French government by executing Lamilleaux in a Facebook live video on the 13th of May.

## Assassination of Claire Gardet

Though the conflict continued for some time between the government and the Bou Casseau, it reached a boiling point on the 23rd of November 2000, when the president of Eastern France, Claire Gardet, was assassinated. At around 9 PM on the 23rd Claire Gardet left La Darre for the town hall of Lamilleaux where she would announce her presidential campaign for the 2000 elections, however, on route there in the small town of Darvault her convoy was ambushed by armed gunmen who launched an RPG rocket at one of the cars leading the convoy. An armed battle ensued to keep Gardt alive, however, during the ambush she was hit by a stray bullet who hit her above the heart, causing an internal hemorrhage, and despite her bodyguard's efforts to keep her alive, she died minutes later. Though Gardet had died, her bodyguards, with the help of local police reinforcements managed to fight off the militants, and she brought back to La Darre's Central Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Following this vice-president Edmond Chaucer was immediately brought in as interim president, however, he was later elected and would serve as president, cracking down on the Bou Casseau, until the 1st of January 2005 where he lost the election, as for Gardet, she was buried on the 25th of November.