Draft:Unilateral secession

Map of the former province of Bangladesh as pre-1971 East Pakistan (previous).

Unilateral secession is the alleged right for a part of the population to secede from the union, or separate and secede from the territory of a State, without prior consent of the previous Sovereign state, to become independent (Unilateral secession), creates tension in relationship to the interest. The interests of States to maintain their territorial integrity. This very region was the first-nation state to earn its Independence by waging a rebellious war of resistance against a post-colonial state, which was also it's parent state, additionally the intervention of the Indian military was one of the only examples of atrocities being ended thanks to external meddling in a internal affair of another. It's the only country to have unilaterally broken away from another country and gone on to become a full member of the United Nations, although it was not until that geopolitical emancipation had been accepted by the Pakistani Government that Bangladesh was then able to join the Security Council as a separate full member. It's the very same country that it had fought for an Indian Muslim Homeland and also later to fight ethnolinguistically against it too as an act of Unilateral secession. In this regard, it is worth noting that even though Bangladesh is a unique case of Unilateral secession that gained general international acceptance, to this day there hasn't been a case where a country seceded and successfully joined the UN against the wishes of the former Parent state. For all these reasons, when it comes to unilateral secession, Bangladesh truly is the exception that proves the rule. Thus the only successful case of unilateral secession since 1945. It is a formal process leading to the establishment of a new state by a Subnational entity which declares itself independent and sovereign without a formal agreement with the state from which it is seceding. The term was first used when Rhodesia declared independence in 1965 from the United Kingdom (UK) without an agreement with the UK.[1]

  1. ^ Douglas George Anglin. Zambian Crisis Behaviour: Confronting Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, 1965–1966. McGill-Queens, 1994.