Later the colonial administration organized the transplantation of persons (see E CN.4 1997 6 Add.1, para. 19).

No election, referendum or plebiscite held unilaterally by the colonial or occupying authorities constituted a free expression of the will of the people.

FSRP demanded the release of all prisoners incarcerated by the colonial power.

Moreover, the death penalty was imposed by the colonial administration even though it was anathema to the people of Puerto Rico.

The question of the Malvinas Islands is a special colonial case United Nations resolutions on their decolonization

The draft resolution referred to the maintenance of colonial situations.

The guiding principles of the Declaration must continue to drive implementation of the decolonization agenda and should not be limited to the issue of Non Self Governing Territories but ensure that all peoples under colonial administration or foreign occupation were allowed to exercise their inalienable right to self determination.

31. At the beginning of 1996, Congress, at the request of the colonial legislature, had begun to react to the results of the 1993 referendum.

Since the independence of Myanmar from British colonial rule in 1948, Myanmar has suffered from unresolved conflicts between most of the ethnic minorities of the country and the central authorities.

On 3 January 1833, British forces expelled the Argentine inhabitants and authorities established in the Malvinas Islands and began their illegal occupation, creating a special colonial situation unlike any other.

The colonial situation in Gibraltar destroyed the unity and territorial integrity of Spain.

And when you have colonization what do you have?

50. Since independence from British colonial rule in 1948, Myanmar has witnessed unresolved conflicts between some of the 135 ethnic minorities of the country and the central authorities.

In the context of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, the Special Committee should intensify its efforts to bring a speedy end to colonialism.

And also showing oyster gardening for the community along its edges.

44. Colonization entailed the destruction and modification of the structures of the colonized peoples.

The question of the Malvinas Islands had been defined by the Committee as a special and particular colonial situation.

Clearly, Puerto Rico's ruling class had no intention to change the colonial character of the relationship with the United States, because that situation allowed them to realize profits at the expense of the Puerto Rican people.

There was a little local difficulty in some of our minor colonies, but ...

While we rejected colonialism, we accepted our colonial heritage.

A fresh assessment of the situation could bring both new momentum to the decolonization process and new hope to the Saharawi people.

It should be pointed out that, unlike Hong Kong and Macao, the Republic of China is not a colonial enclave.

6. At a time when the International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, proclaimed in 1991, was coming to an end, the United Nations was called upon to make a decisive effort to complete the decolonization process started almost 40 years earlier and to implement fully the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under colonial domination.

They were used as manpower on coffee, cocoa and sugarcane plantations and as domestic workers by the Creole landowners and colonial authorities, who ruled the land.

Nevertheless, benevolent colonialism was still colonialism.

2. Colonization

The Special Committee should take a firm stand against colonialism.

As for the Special Committee on Decolonization, its goal consisted in ensuring self determination for colonies, and there had been cases in which colonies had been de listed as Self Governing Territories after the United Nations had become convinced that they had exercised their right to self determination.

The situation was presently very tense in the village of Silwan, south west of Jerusalem, and bordering Al Aqsa mosque, where, citing an alleged old colonial law, Israeli authorities decided to demolish 100 houses.

Indonesia had from the outset, time and again expressed its readiness to cooperate with the then colonial Power towards the peaceful and orderly process of decolonization of East Timor.

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Colony shape

It is a matter of historical record that Portugal abdicated its responsibility when the Portuguese colonial authorities in Dili, in August 1975, simply packed up and left East Timor, after allowing the Territory to deteriorate to the point of civil war.

13. In part II, four categories of succession of States were specified, but the category of decolonization, a major issue in international relations and international law, was omitted.

Indeed, colonialism as a contemporary practice is inconsistent with the principle of democracy, and the OAS can contribute significantly to the decolonization process by considering this dichotomy within its activities related to the Democracy Charter.

Colonial control becomes effective when local people are divided and disempowered . (Rui Gomes, in Development or Colonialism , University of Helsinki, 28 to 29 April 1998.)

The bishop, made an agreement with civil authorities.

316. The modern education system of Sri Lanka began about 150 years ago under the British colonial administration.

21. The denial of colonialism and the sordid attempts by the administering Power to mask the existence of colonialism was itself evidence of colonialism.

Similar incidents have occurred in the past, whereupon the Israeli authorities have turned over the nationals in question to the Syrian authorities.

47. One of the most important factors in maintaining that situation is the cooperation provided by the former colonial Powers, which uses a series of constraints to impose its will on the former colony, now a sovereign State but actually without means or power.

Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

Those who had supported the struggle of the people of Vieques and sought Puerto Rico's independence and self determination were concerned at the current political pessimism and opportunism in Puerto Rico and the wave of calls favourable to the colonial administration's design to preserve the status quo.

During the debate on the question, the representative of Fiji said that the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples called for an end to colonialism when the peoples of colonized territories exercised their right to self determination.