The pretext for the attacks Attack was the assassination Killing of the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan , a 17-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris .

Hungarian occupation troops massacred Killing civilians ( mostly Serbs and Jews ) during a major raid Attack in southern Bačka , under the pretext of suppressing resistance activities .

Habsburg Spain , wishing to finally crush Bodily_harm the Dutch rebels in the Netherlands and the Dutch Republic ( which was de facto independent since 1581 but de jure still a part of the Holy Roman Empire ) , intervened under the pretext of helping its dynastic Habsburg ally , Austria .

The Eastern Roman emperor Justinian took this as a pretext to interfere Hindering in Vandal affairs , and after he secured Preventing_or_letting his eastern frontier with Sassanid Persia in 532 , he began Process_start preparing GetReady an expedition under general Belisarius , whose secretary Procopius wrote Writing the main historical narrative of the war .

Napoleon named Name_conferral the campaign the Second Polish War to gain Getting favor with the Poles and to provide Supply a political pretext for his actions .

Among Turkish speakers the operation is also referred Adducing as `` Cyprus Peace Operation '' ( ) or `` Operation Peace '' ( ) or `` Cyprus Operation '' ( ) , as they claim that Turkey took Creating military action on the pretext of a peacekeeping operation .

The Indonesian invasion of East Timor , known Know in Indonesia as Operation Lotus ( ) , began Process_start on 7 December 1975 when the Indonesian military invaded Attack East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism .

The Mukden Incident , or Manchurian Incident , was an event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion in 1931 of northeastern China , known as Manchuria .

A disputed Himalayan border was the main pretext for war Military_operation , but other issues played a role .

The rally had been organised Arranging under the pretext of a demonstration against the perceived impunity of the collaborators Collaboration and the general disarmament ultimatum , signed Sign_agreement by Ronald Scobie ( the British commander in Greece ) .

Russia accused Judgment_communication Georgia of `` aggression against South Ossetia '' , and launched Process_start a large-scale land , air and sea invasion Attack of Georgia on 8 August with the pretext of `` peace enforcement '' operation .

Several contemporaneous observers and later historians have concluded Coming_to_believe that the Ottoman government deliberately instigated Process_start the armed Armenian resistance Defending by enforcing Action the conditions on their subjects and then used Using this insurgency Hostile_encounter as a main pretext to justify Justifying the forced deportations Removing of Armenians from all over the empire .

A diplomatic incident in 1827 , the so-called Fan Affair ( Fly Whisk Incident ) served as a pretext to initiate Process_start a blockade against the port of Algiers .