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According to the United Nations Charter, all peoples have the right to
self-determination. Nations that have taken other people’s lands are
bound by the international law to relinquish them to their original
owners. Billions of dollars that is being spent annually on deployment
of peacekeeping force to maintain peace through dividing lines,
exclusion zone, no-fly zone, buffer zone, safe haven zone, could be
diverted to bringing real peace. Allowing the indigenous peoples to
self- determination, should lead to removal of such interim control
points, resolving the problem permanently. Assyria, Eastern Cyprus,
Jerusalem – the eternal capital city of Israel with its surrounding Holy
Lands is just a few examples.
The international community should pressure oppressive regimes to accept
the concept of self-determination. Such belligerent regimes are obliged
by the International Law to cooperate with the UN, in helping the
aborigines towards attainment of self-determination in part of their
ancestral land. Repossessing part of their traditional homeland is
legitimate and rightful. Its implementation is legal. It is in line with
the doctrine of Irredentism. The natives themselves should control the
region that is historically related to them. The northern region of
Mesopotamia – extending from Urmia east of Assyria all throughout to the
River Euphrates, West, being traditionally part of Assyria, belongs to
the surviving Assyrian natives – not to Muslim Arab, Kurd and Mongol
nomadic tribes.
Adamant refusal will continue to arouse tension and escalate world
problems. The UN has the legitimate power to form a physical force of
international capability to enforce its resolutions within a set and
firm timetable should such belligerents continue to refuse to heed UN
warnings.
Many conflicts, instead of being resolved, drag on for decades with
little concern about the interest and sufferings of the people of the
country caught up in such conflicts. Over time, the conflicts remain
unresolved and harden to such a point that UN Peace-Keeping forces
become a daily feature. Their manned military stations take the form of
permanency such as in Cyprus, Lebanon, Iraq and scores of other places
in Africa and the Balkans.
Powerful and influential countries, dominating the scene of
international politics, each seems to tilt its influence and decision in
favour of the country that best protects and serves its interests. By
turning a blind eye and maintaining silence, such leading countries help
the aggressor to consolidate his position and harden his stance against
the aggrieved. This policy on the part of certain leading countries
crushes the hope of the wronged peoples that look up to them as
impartial, just and responsible leaders.
Many people envisaged the UN as the leader of the new world order, that
it would take up the challenge and form a global force and act
responsibly to reduce tension and bring relative peace and stability to
the world. If the world body through the UN cannot do it, no one else
can. World tension will escalate and chaos and misery will overwhelm the
world. Millions of disinherited peoples experience it daily; they live
it.
Is the UN waiting for the undemocratic Islamic regimes to willingly
accept and comply with the UN resolutions and grant the natives their
legitimate rights to reclaiming ownership of, at least, part of their
usurped land? Islam already considers all non-Islamic occupied
territories that fall within the Islamic Umma Nation as an integral part
of the Abode of Peace. Islam’s ultimate objective is to conquer the
Abode of War and bring it under the Abode of war Islamic Abode of Peace.
Billions of dollars that is being spent annually on peacekeeping and
refugee care, could be spent on bringing real peace, by reforming
military regimes and dictatorships to secular, civil and democratic
rule. Thus, allowing the aborigines their freedom. By pressuring
autocratic regimes to democratise their systems, abuse and mass
migration will diminish. Besides criticizing a corrupt regime, the UN
should find ways to help democratise such a system and indict future
leaders that return to dictatorship.
If the ultimate aim of the UN is to maintain peace, then helping the
moderate-minded leaders to democratise their systems and help the
indigenous people to restore their basic human rights will lessen
tension and bring peace and amity to the world. By restoring their
dignity, the indigenous peoples will contribute to the world community,
according to their ability, yet proud of their culture and heritage as
any other nation. Their contribution in shaping the world of tomorrow
will work towards bringing durable peace and stability that all the
nations may live more harmoniously.
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