The rebellion was triggered as a result of a misinterpretation of an official information transmitted during the period of dysfunction associated with the taking the oath of allegiance to the Romanian state.

An important role in tempering the excesses of the revolt, but also later, in normalizing the lives of the inhabitants of the area, was played by the pastor Ferenc Laár of the reformed church of Praid.

[5] According to Dr. Szekeres Lukács Sándor,[5] alongside requisitions[7] however, there were also thefts or kidnappings by the Romanian troops, as well as punishments ordered by the military authorities in the form of beatings (some even followed by deaths), applied to some members of the local population.

[5] On the other hand, the crossing of the second demarcation line in January 1919 by the Romanian Army determined a situation that could become very complicated,[8] and on 1919, the Hungarian Council of Ministers decided for the first time that no more had another solution than armed resistance.

[9] An appropriate moment to take action seemed to arise in the spring of 1919, when the idea of a local rebellion, coordinated with an attack by the troops of the "Szekler Division" began to be floated.

Also, Hungarian-language newspapers and magazines in Transylvania became increasingly difficult to obtain, while during the same period, postal items from Hungary were simply burned in the railway station at Cluj.

In the afternoon, a Romanian gendarme coming from Miercurea Nirajului carrying horses, was attacked near Eremitu by Szeklers and wounded with a knife.

[11] In the oral history of the places, there is also the version of mysterious couriers from Cluj who were supposed to arrive in the area, to inform the locals that the action of the "Secuiesti Division" had been countermanded.

[11] On 31 March at Eremitu, rioters stopped the local train coming from Praid, occupying the railway and shooting from the forest with guns.

[11] After occupying the public buildings in Sovata, reinforcements came to the Szeklers from Sărățeni and a process of organizing the rebellion in the surrounding territory began.

[1] The death of the three own guards aroused the anger of the population of Praid, who wanted to execute the already captured Romanian gendarmes in the village square.

Only the vigorous action of the pastor Ferenc Laár[1] of the reformed church of Praid,[12] prevented the execution of Romanian gendarmes held hostage.

For the intellectuals in the area who had been able to use the telephone to make contact with the neighboring towns, it became obvious that the size of the revolt was of small amplitude and that it was taking place only in a few villages, being initiated as a result of some erroneous information.

[1] With this aim, according to Szekeres Lukács Sándor, the Romanian units adopted intimidation tactics, marching with the whole force and artillery through the villages.

[1] A delegation consisting of Catholic priest Béla Kicsid[1] from Praid,[13] pastor calvin Ferenc Laár,[1] school principal[7] Mihály Kovács[1] and teacher[7] György Kakucs, prepared to start the steps in order to mitigate the predictable harshness of the intervention of the Romanian troops.

[1] On April 3, the arrests began, under the command of a lieutenant-colonel, being detained and interrogated in the gendarmerie premises (according to Szekeres Lukács Sándor including the use of violent methods,[1] which led to the death of 4 people),[14] 80 inhabitants of Praid.

In the following days, all those detained from the surrounding localities (Matrici, Sovata, Ocna de Sus, Corund) were also directed to Praid.

[1] In the morning of April 6, one of the main defendants, Gagyi Lázár, who had tried to mobilize the residents of Şiklod to revolt, managed to escape.

On the same day, the execution of Dénes Farkas,[1] guilty of the shooting wounding of the Romanian lieutenant Donetea on March 31 in Praid, was announced.

[2] Under the threat of harsh punishments, including collective ones, the population was announced to surrender all the weapons and ammunition of war, remaining from the former Austro-Hungarian army.

[2] In memory of the deceased corporal Florea Constantin from the Mureș Gendarmerie, who fell victim to duty, being killed by the Szekler revolutionaries on March 31.