| People | Language | Context | Approximate Ethnogenesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Not one of them have achieved statehood recognized by any other nation.
Compare with the Palestinians, who do not have their own distinct language or culture separate from other Levantine Arabs, who can only claim to have become a people in the 20th century - and who are recognized by most of the world as having their own state.
What makes them special?
Nothing - except they decided to attack Jews.
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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.
In a sense, Hamas borrowed the PLO playbook. Terror attacks against Jews gained the PLO a seat at the UN within only a couple of years; and Hamas terror attacks against Jews gained the PLO-run Palestinian Authority the legitimacy of statehood in about the same timeframe.
Killing Jews is a proven way to gain legitimacy. These other groups may be real people with their own distinct cultures that have been around before Islam itself, but they just don't have that advantage.
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