Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, a succession of military regimes has failed to resolve the tensions between the Ibo, Yoruba and Hausa tribes that flared into a civil war in 1967 when Biafra, the Ibo homeland, tried to break away. The strongman in power then, General Yakuba Gowon, healed some of the scars by declaring an amnesty at the end of the war, in 1970, but he was toppled in 1975 by other soldiers who objected to his costly schemes, such as the building of a $20 million sports stadium in Lagos...
...goal and our aim are to establish our independent state, our right to return to our homeland, from which we were kicked out, and our rights of self-determination...
...accept a United Nations resolution stating that the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people must be acknowledged and that they have a right to a homeland...
...resolutions of the U.N. acknowledging the rights of the Palestinians to return to their homeland, their rights of self-determination and to an independent state. This is the international language, accepted by 126 countries...
...late Kurdish leader General Mulla Mustafa Barzani once called the Kurds "the orphans of the universe," because they have never had a national homeland of their own. A handsome, high-spirited people, with dark, flashing eyes and chiseled features, they belong to the Sunni sect of Islam whereas most Iranians are Shi'ite Muslims. The trials of farming craggy mountainsides, where the summer temperatures soar above 100° and winter blizzards last for weeks at a time, have made the Kurds tough and independent...