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The great Kabyle singer Matoub Lounès criticized the dictatorship and even dared to criticize Islam. But when he dared to speak of the right of peoples to self-determination, and thus to the Kabyle people to have their state, he was assassinated by Algerian authorities.
Source: tatoeba (7525870)
Our concepts of the world are different. No service is performed by failing to make clear our disagreements. A central difference is the belief of the American people in self-determination for all people.
Source: tatoeba (8304204)
The Movement for the Self-Determination of Lilliput is here to defend the right of the Lilliputian language to exist.
Source: tatoeba (8784745)
Algeria has ratified the Treaty on the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination, which supports, on the one hand, Palestine and Western Sahara only because they are so-called Arab-Islamic States, but on the other hand, assassinates any Kabyle opponent who aspires to the independence of Kabylia.
Source: tatoeba (9433382)
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Closest matches include self-government, absolute monarchy, act independently, agentic behavior, aristocracy.
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