People | Language | Context | Approximate Ethnogenesis |
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Kurds | Kurdish languages | One of the largest stateless nations (estimated 30-46 million people); seeking independence or autonomy across Kurdistan in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, with partial autonomy achieved in Iraqi Kurdistan and Rojava. | 2000 BCE |
Tamils | Tamil language | Seeking independence or greater regional autonomy in Tamil Nadu (India) or as part of a sovereign Dravida Nadu; also demanding secession in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka (Tamil Eelam). | 500 BCE |
Uyghurs | Uyghur language | Seeking independence from China in East Turkestan (Xinjiang), with limited current autonomy and involvement in irredentist movements. | 8th century CE |
Baloch | Balochi language | Seeking an independent sovereign state separate from Pakistan and Iran amid the ongoing Balochistan conflict. | 1000 CE |
Pashtuns (in Pakistan) | Pashto language | Seeking an independent state through Pashtun nationalism in Pashtunistan, separate from Pakistan. | 500 BCE |
Tibetans | Tibetan language | Seeking independence from China in Tibet, with a government-in-exile and ongoing autonomy movements (though not listed explicitly in the extraction, commonly associated; cross-referenced from prior Asia list). | 3000 BCE |
Sikhs | Punjabi, Dogri, Kashmiri languages | Seeking independence from India through the Khalistan movement in Punjab. | 15th century CE |
Oromo | Oromo language | Seeking autonomy or independence in Oromia, involved in conflicts in Ethiopia and Kenya. | 16th century CE |
Igbo | Igbo, English languages | Seeking sovereignty in Nigeria through movements like the Indigenous People of Biafra, following a failed secession attempt in the 1960s. | 1000 CE |
Yoruba | Yoruba language | Seeking recognition and autonomy in Yorubaland across Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Ghana via groups like the Oodua Peoples Congress. | 1000 CE |
Assamese | Assamese language | Seeking greater autonomy or secession from India in Assam through separatist movements. | 13th century CE |
Catalans | Catalan, Occitan languages | Seeking independence from Spain in the Catalan Countries, with active nationalism and referendums. | 9th century CE |
Occitans | Occitan, French, Italian, Spanish languages | Seeking self-determination or secession from France in Occitania, spanning France, Monaco, Italy, and Spain. | 8th century CE |
Maya | Mayan languages | Seeking autonomy or independence in Mesoamerica through movements like the Zapatista Army, across Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. | 2000 BCE |
Romani | Romani language | A non-territorial nation seeking recognition and a proposed homeland (Romanistan), dispersed worldwide but mostly in Eastern Europe and the Americas. | 1000 CE |
Québécois | French language | Seeking independence from Canada in Quebec through the sovereignty movement. | 17th century CE |
Hazaras | Hazaragi dialect of Persian | Seeking recognition and autonomy in Hazaristan, Afghanistan, amid persecution. | 13th century CE |
Zulu | Zulu language | Seeking greater autonomy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with a traditional king and presence in neighboring countries. | 18th century CE |
Kongo | Kongo, Lingala, Portuguese, French languages | Seeking recognition in the former Kingdom of Kongo region across the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, and Angola. | 14th century CE |
The PLO went from being perceived as a terror group to a legitimate political group in only a couple of years. Their terror attacks in the 1960s and 1970s, together with the Arab oil boycott after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, got them prestige and legitimacy - Yasir Arafat addressed the UN in 1974 and gained observer status then while it still explicitly embraced terror as a tactic.
"He's an Anti-Zionist Too!" cartoon book (December 2024) PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism (February 2022) |
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