After spending decades fighting for "self-determination" for Iraq's Kurds, Talabani finds himself defending Iraq's unity.
The administration of George W. Bush pushed southern rebels, who had been fighting for self-determination for decades, and Sudan's central government to sign a comprehensive peace agreement in 2005, which guaranteed the southerners the right to secede.
It brought about the breakup of the Soviet Union and of Yugoslavia, and sparked a revolution whose participants in many states around the world are fighting for self-determination — and for their own version of democracy.
The study, released Wednesday by the Asia Foundation, said the peace process in Mindanao, the region in the southern Philippines where Islamic separatists have been fighting for self-determination since the 1970s, would have a better chance of succeeding if clan violence were addressed.
Khun Sa, whose army long dominated the region's heroin trade under the guise of fighting for self-determination for the insurgent Shan tribal group, surrendered to government forces in 1996 and has been living under house arrest in Yangon, officials said.
MANILA — Two rival Islamic separatist groups in the Philippines have agreed to reconcile by September, a pledge that has raised hopes here that the insurgency in the south of the country where the separatists have been fighting for self-determination since the 1970s might finally come to an end, officials said Friday.
As President and commander in chief, Roosevelt warred against Filipinos fighting for self-determination in the aftermath of the Spanish-American war by employing waterboarding and perpetrating mass atrocities.
"The history of Nigeria has been the recurrent struggle of one group after another fighting for self-determination".
They're still fighting the forces of evil, but they're also fighting for self-interest.
They don't support people rather they delegitimize a people's right for self determination.
Four Arab-Israeli wars on, the 44% of Palestine allocated to the Palestinian majority under the 1947 UN partition plan had been entirely occupied by Israel – and the Palestinians were fighting a guerrilla war for self-determination and the refugees' right of return.
