 When the Trinidad and Tobago regiment was summoned to the capital, Port of Spain to help enforce order about half of the army, led by Lassalle, Raffique Shah and other junior officers, refused to take up arms against the citizenry.Lassalle saw many of the senior officers as incompetent and unconcerned with the welfare of the people soldiers.As Shah later said, he and Lassalle also "felt the Government...no longer commanded a majority [of support]".