 The Italians, especially governor Francesco Jacomoni, used the Cham issue as a means to rally Albanian support.As the final excuse for the start of the Greco-Italian War, Jacomoni used the killing of a Cham Albanian leader Daut Hoxha, whose headless body was discovered near the village of Vrina in June 1940.It was alleged by the Italian-controlled government in Tirana that he had been murdered by Greek secret agents.