Topic > Right to self-determination - 911

Does everyone have the right to choose their own destiny? I firmly believe that the answer to this question is yes. Regarding a community, do they have the same right to choose? The importance of the issue lay in the right to choose. In practice, whether a community has a right to choose or the outcome of self-determination often determines a government's responses. Even though self-determination is an international right and a procedural right that belongs to the people and not to states or governments, this is ignored by the Colombian government, which has firmly decided not to listen to the demands of the people, who fight for Political Autonomy, economic, cultural and social. The Raizal people of San Andrés Island have the right to choose self-determination. Self-determination of people is a right recognized by international law. The law makes it a universal principle. The principle of self-determination is enshrined in Article I of the United Nations Charter. It is also part of the harsh law affirmed by the International Meeting of Experts for the Elucidation of Concepts of Peoples' Rights gathered by UNESCO. Accordingly, self-determination is recognized as a right of all people to voluntarily define their political situation and freely make decisions regarding land value and land use. The nationalism system creates laws and regulates them. These facts cause pressure, tension, intolerance, violence and anxiety in a society. For more than a hundred years the island has maintained its identity due to geographical isolation. Over the past fifty years, the Colombian government has been strengthening a nationalist authority with regulations and laws. This system itself is a difficult political topic that the central government always seems to avoid, but the self-determination movement keeps it alive. In any case, the island is governed according to a democratic system and the islanders do not participate in it. In fact, there are others who design their own political and social systems and economic policies. They have neither the right to protest nor to decide on their natural resources. As a community they have continued to discuss the prospect of self-determination for a long time, and still there are groups who do not understand the prospect and prefer to continue to be part of Colombia, they choose personal ambition, instead of community benefits. . The goal of San Andrés Islanders as a community is not to be perpetually governed by others who seek to gain control of their lives through the legitimate choice of self-determination. It's their right.