Bondstaat seeks to highlight the plight of peoples who aspire to nationhood. These might be based on peoples or tribes based within a state or even across borders that may or may not have been independently organised in the past. They might have a linguistic or historical separateness from their neighbours or fellow citizens. All will aspire to recognition, autonomy or independence.
And as self-determinists we support the right of all such peoples to determine their future whatever they wish that to be. This includes for example the Venda, Matabele, Afrikaner, Zulu, Kurds, Flemish, Sikhs and Tamils.
However, when it comes to obtaining any form of self-determination, the reaction of the ‘powers that be’ can be wildly different. One only has to take a look at three cases in Europe to see this.
The first example is that of Czechoslovakia.
On 1 January 1993, this artificial state (created after World War I) split into the Czech Republic and Slo
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