Secession
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Secession is the unilateral withdrawal of an integral part of a state's territory. Secession generally aims to establish a separate political entity, typically a sovereign state, although it may inste
Hashim Thaçi (left) and then-US Vice President Joe Biden with the Declaration of Independence of Kosovo
Northern Cyprus
September 1999 demonstration for independence from Indonesia
A girl during the Nigerian Civil War of the late 1960s. Pictures of the famine caused by Nigerian blockade garnered sympathy for the Biafrans worldwide.
Nigerian Civil War
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The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, Nigeria–Biafra War, or Biafra War, was an armed conflict fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state that had declare
Secession
…Finland voting to leave Soviet Russia in 1917, setting off the Finnish Civil War; Biafra leaving Nigeria (and returning, after losing the Nigerian Civil War); the former Soviet republics leaving the Soviet Union in 1991, causing its dissolution…
Godwin Alabi Isama 1
Starving children in the Nigerian civil war
Lynn Garrison in cockpit of his F4U-7 Corsair 1966