> Because every population should have the right to make secession. I hardly see evidence in the history when such rights were granted without prior terror or

> Because every population should have the right to make secession. I hardly see evidence in the history when such rights were granted without prior terror or occupation of a foreign army. In Europe, multinational countries could live together while the people could maintain their ethnicity. Nowadays, with the nation states, people has much less freedom in this regard they had prior the national movements of the 19th century.