At 6:22 AM -0700 7/31/04, Chris Doss wrote:
--- Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The question, I thought, was whether Kurds, Kashmiris, and Chechens
(as well as East Timorese, Albanians in Kosovo, etc. from recent
history) have the right to self-determination.
---
Yoshie, upon a little reflection, I think this is a pretty naive way
of considering the situation.
Who gets to determine Chechnya's status?
There is no a priori answer to the question. For instance,
Palestinians are divided in several ways: those who live in Israel as
its second-class citizens, those who live in Israel illegally, those
who live in the occupied territories, those who live in refugee camps
outside historic Palestine, those who are citizens or permanent
residents of other nations. The levels of Palestinians' own struggle
and international support for it will determine whether or not
Palestinian refugees can return to their homeland, to take just one
example. The same goes for every other national question: after all,
what will be decisive is the levels of struggles on the ground and
international support for them.
Yoshie
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