A warning to Quebec separatists who use Kosovo as inspiration for a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) : not so fast. Kosovo's UDI is gaining legitimacy -- slowly -- due to an exception in international law related to the treatment of minorities. Indeed, in that region, genocide and other atrocities by Milosovic and others created this exceptional fount of legitimacy.
Quebec would have no similar claim. I am sure the usual suspects will use this false analogy (I am going to check vigile.net right now to confirm...) but I have never accused them of being rigourous or using correct international law analysis to begin with.
graham at uni dot ca
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