International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.
Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.