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Originally Posted by Hafke
If there's an ethnic group anywhere that wishes to separate, do they have that right?
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Fair question, even more after seeing how Kosovo Albanians got independence.
Kosovo was Serb area, but by moving into the area and breeding more rapidly(yes, I am being blunt) than the original folk, they managed to gain more numbers.
After that.. terror campaign against Serbs in the protective cover of KFOR. Serbs were forces off and thus Albanians were able to gain independence.
(Albanians tried this in Macedonia, but failed. That is why I have zero compassion towards their actions)
Same results are not to be expected everywhere though. Russian Federation, being huge and diverce, will not allow any minority or ethnic group gain independence. They rather bully them into submission. Or annihilate them through brutal terror-war.
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The question applies to everyone, not just China. It's always difficult to determine whether the situation is a group refusing to engage with society coupled with possible civil rights issues; or whether it's a legitimate separatist or irredentist cause.
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Jugoslavia. I think that area fits as perfect example.
Do you have any better ones?
How about Israel? And its long history of kinship wars?
Ireland and their struggle against British would also be a nice one.
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The way you phrased the "question" is unhelpful in the extreme.
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The matter is complex to the extreme.