Assassination of Hazael Buller

The **Assassination of Hazael Buller** was a pivotal moment within politics in the 21st century for both Bovido Has and the rest of the world, with the Hǔnluàn orchestrated event sending shockwaves out to nearly every other nation on earth as the two largest superpower nations of the Libirachi Empire and Bovido Has turned a decades long cold war into an active war, with the relatively new leaders of both countries taking the opportunity to wipe out their political rival, sparking a chain of events which lead to the Has Wars between 2020 and 2022 and then followed by the Libirachi Civil War between 2022 and 2024.

Leading to the destruction of Bovido Has in 2021, the Has Wars would spawn a series of Bovido Remnants as successor states to the Christian regime, although following the Bovido Hassian Contingency, only the remnant led by Cardinal Anton Ujung remained and would go on to form the Bovido Imperium with ST Joseph's Devotees and together they would embark on a Conquest of Africa in 2033. Likewise in the Libirachi Empire, the political fall-out from the death of Archbishop and Emperor Hazael Buller would lead to the creation of a military dictatorship in the neighbouring state of Persia led by Hǔnluàn head Ashton Morre, and the successor regime of Almac Docu, unwittingly facilitated by the Libirachi government, would orchestrate the Assassination of Laura Fox, the Emperor of the Libirachi Empire, and bring about a civil war and a new monarch, Penny Fox.

## History

At 13:34 PM on 29th March 2020, Archbishop Hazael Buller the Rightful and the Libirachi Ambassador to Makassar were both killed by an explosion in the armed one-off Toyota Century Royal car which the Archbishop and Emperor designated for official state duties. Archbishop Buller and Bail Ordain were on their way to the N20 conference on international relations (held between the nations of Asia, Oceania, Eastern Europe and Northern Africa), when the bomb detonated as the car pulled up outside the Makassar Government Building, killing the pair, 7 security guards, the driver and bodyguard in the car, and 17 members of the global press who were filming the car as it detonated. The talks were immediately cancelled, while the Bovido Has official investigation found that the car had traces of a Libirachi TC-5555 explosive, implicating the Libirachi Imperial Army in the assassination. Enraged by the suggestion, Xi Jimping (President of the Libirachi Empire) demanded that Bovido Has released the "true" findings of the investigation, declaring it preposterous that the Libirachi Empire would assassinate the Head of State of its closest ally. Attempts to fix the issue by independent peacekeepers were rebuffed, and the newly appointed Emperor Damal Clod began publicly accusing the Empire of an unprovoked assault on the Bovido. As such, Xi Jimping resorted to his last option; the Libirachi Empire declared war on Bovido Has at 09:30 AM (local time) on the 1st April 2020, and Bovido Has responded at 10:10 AM (local time) the same day.

## Has Wars

 Main article: Has Wars

The **Has Wars** were a series of interconnected wars fought between Bovido Has, the Libirachi Empire, the Emirate of Persia and Obadiah Has from 1st April 2020. Most of the war can be attributed to the machinations of the Hǔnluàn, who engineered escalating tensions between the Libirachi Empire and Bovido Has with the Assassination of Hazael Buller on 29th March 2020. As peace talks broke down and both sides blamed each other, the schism between the two nations widened and the Libirachi Empire declared war on Bovido Has at 09:30 AM on the 1st April 2020, and Bovido Has responded at 10:10 AM the same day. Following the Assassination of Archbishop-Emperor Hazael Buller the Rightful in March 2020 at the hands of the Hǔnluàn terrorist group, Bovido Has was placed into dissaray, and was crippled by the defection of The Lords Grand Army into the nation of Obadiah Has. At 10:10 on the 7th April 2020, Bovido Has declared war on the rival Has, and in a fiery speech to his new nation, Justus Obadiah declared war on its parent nation. While the newly appointed Emperor Damal Clod attempted to keep the Has provinces under his control Bovido Has began to collapse under the pressure of the Has Wars, struggling to fight off 3 nations and recapture fallen territory, all without a standing army. On the , 10th April, Obadiah Has began its Pacific conquest and saw its first conflict against The Libirachi Empire in the Battle for Burma Has, lasting between the 10th of April and the 22nd May, and was swiftly followed by the Fall of Viet Has on the 22nd April. Concluding on May 15th, the Fall of Viet Has and the neighbouring Fall of Central Has forced Bovido Has out of mainland southern Asia, save for a small strip of fortresses on the cost of the South Libirachi Sea.

## See Also

* Has Wars
* Libirachi Civil War
* Battle of Beijing (2020)
* Battle for Persia
* Siege of Makassar
* Invasion of Japan