After decades of political oppression, Iraqi Kurds called for an independence referendum in 2017 in the country’s northern Kurdish...
The right of self-determination establishes that each people has the right to freely choose their political status...
In Catalonia, a wealthy Spanish region, separatists feel that the government takes more in taxes than it...
In India-controlled Kashmir, decades of political repression and heavy-handed military presence have led separatist movements to call...
In the 1990s, a separatist movement led by Uighurs (a majority-Muslim ethnic group) started demanding the formation...
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Historical of Ambazonia united Nations Trust Territory of Southern British Cameroons (1946–1961) The Republic of Ambazonia is...
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