The Somali question in the Ethiopian empire
Photo:Aljazeeranews.com Woodrow Wilson, the father who first coined the quintessential right of nations, the right to self-determination , famously stated: "No people must be forced under sovereignty under which it does not wish to live." If one consciously observes Wilson’s grounding words of what later became the universal right that has been enshrined in the Declaration of the United Nations, it becomes a sunlight that the will of the people is the requirement to exercise the right and the former president had been granting the right to sovereignty to those who want to be sovereign. In that sense, the right to self-determination doesn’t apply to those forcefully occupied and still remain in occupation. Decolonization is their remedy and that is exactly what case of the Somalis under Ethiopia proves to be and sturdily demands. Decolonization of nations had not been in the political literature before Euro...