 Tomasevich states that the uprising was a " spontaneous , <unk> outburst " that was doomed to failure , and involved neither the <unk> of <unk> <unk> nor the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ( <unk> @-@ Croatian : <unk> <unk> <unk> , KPJ ) . He contends that the uprising was the result of several factors , including the Ustaše <unk> , fear and hatred of the NDH authorities , a local tradition of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire , the poor economic conditions in eastern Herzegovina , and news of the launching of Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union . Hoare <unk> with Tomasevich that the uprising was in the tradition of the <unk> rebellions against the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century , such as the uprisings in 1875 – 77 . Edmund <unk> @-@ <unk> , the German <unk> General in the NDH , believed that the Italians might have deliberately avoided interfering in the uprising . General <unk> <unk> , the commander of the Italian 6th Army Corps , blamed the Ustaše and Muslims for <unk> the revolt . 
