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1919 : artilleurs estoniens prêts à se battre contre le Baltische Landeswehr pendant la guerre d'indépendance de l'Estonie.

Wars of national liberation or national liberation revolutions are conflicts fought by nations to gain independence. The term is used in conjunction with wars against foreign powers (or at least those perceived as foreign) to establish separate sovereign states for the rebelling nationality. From a different point of view, such wars are called insurgencies, rebellions, or wars of independence.[1] Guerrilla warfare or asymmetric warfare is often utilized by groups labeled as national liberation movements, often with support from other states.

The term "wars of national liberation" is most commonly used for those fought during the decolonization movement. Since these were primarily in the third world against Western powers and their economic influence and a major aspect of the Cold War, the phrase itself has often been viewed as biased or pejorative.[2] Some of these wars were either vocally or materially supported by the Soviet Union, which stated itself to be an anti-imperialist power, supporting the replacement of western-backed governments with local communist or other non pro-western parties.[1][3] However, this did not always guarantee Soviet influence in those countries. In addition to and increasingly in competition to the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China presented themselves as models of independent nationalist development outside of Western influence, particularly as such posturing and other longterm hostility meant they were regarded as a threat to Western power and regarded themselves as such, using their resources to politically, economically and militarily assist movements such as in Vietnam. In January 1961 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pledged support for "wars of national liberation" throughout the world.[4]

When the nation is defined in ethnic terms, wars fought to liberate it have often entailed ethnic cleansing or genocide in order to rid the claimed territory of other population groups.[5][6][7]

Legal issues[modifier | modifier le code]

International law generally holds that a people with a legal right to self-determination are entitled to wage wars of national liberation.[8][9] While Western states tend to view these wars as civil wars, Third World and communist states tend to view them as international wars.[8] This difference in classification leads to varying perceptions of which laws of war apply in such situations.[8] However, there is general agreement among all states today in principle that the use of force to frustrate a people's legal right to self-determination is unlawful.[8]

History[modifier | modifier le code]

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Decolonization period[modifier | modifier le code]

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The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) can be considered to be one of the first wars of national liberation. It pitted self-liberated slaves against Imperial France, coming about during a period in history where interconnected movements such as the American and French Revolutions had caused a rise of national consciousness in the Atlantic world. At the same time during the Spanish American wars of independence (1808-1833), the patriots launched a series of complex wars of independence against the royalists, which resulted in the formation of new Latin American states. The Siege of Patras (1821) led to the Greek War of Independence, ending Ottoman domination in the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece. The Easter Rising (1916) in Dublin eventually led to the Irish War of Independence (1919-1922), ending in the establishment of the Irish Free State and a civil war (1922-1923). In the aftermath of World War I, the Bolshevists fought a number of independence movements until Finland, Poland and the Baltic states granted independence. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish National Movement fought a series of campaigns in the war of independence (1919-1922), which resulted in the subsequent withdrawal of Allied forces and establishment of the Republic of Turkey. The Indonesian War of Independence (1945-1949) followed with the Liberation of Irian Jaya (1960-1962), the First Indochina War (1946–54), Vietnam War (1959–75), Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) and the Algerian War (1954–62) were all considered national liberation wars by the rebelling sides of the conflicts. The African National Congress (ANC)'s struggle against the apartheid regime is also another example. Most of these rebellions were in part supported by the Soviet Union, which was an anti-imperialist power. Since the 1917 October Revolution and the subsequent Russian Civil War, the revolutionary objectives of communism were shared by many anticolonialist leaders, thus explaining the objective alliance between anticolonialist forces and Marxism. The concept of "imperialism" itself had been which had theorized in Lenin's 1916 book, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. For example, Ho Chi Minh — who founded the Viet-Minh in 1941 and declared the independence of Vietnam on September 2, 1945, following the 1945 August Revolution — was a founding member of the French Communist Party (PCF) in 1921. In January 1961, over three years before the Gulf of Tonkin incident which would mark the United States government's increased involvement in the Vietnam War, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev would pledge support for "wars of national liberation" throughout the world.[10] In the same decade, Cuba, led by Fidel Castro, would support national liberation movements in Angola and Mozambique. The Portuguese colonial wars finally led to the recognition of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau as independent states in 1975, following the April Carnation Revolution. The breakup of Yugoslavia led to fewer wars of independence in part of the Yugoslav Wars, including the Ten-Day War and the Croatian War of Independence.

Ongoing wars defined as national liberation conflicts[modifier | modifier le code]

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is a national liberation movement, meaning that it holds official recognition of its legal status as such. Other national liberation movements in the OAU at that time included the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC). It is the only non-African national liberation movement to hold observer status in the OAU, and was one of the first national liberation movements granted permanent observer status by the United Nations General Assembly pursuant to a 1974 resolution.[11][12] The PLO also participates in UN Security Council debates; since 1988, it has represented the Palestinian people at the UN under the name "Palestine".[13]

The following current conflicts have sometimes also been characterized as wars or struggles of national liberation (such a designation is often subject to controversy):

Notes et références[modifier | modifier le code]

  1. ↑ a et b (en) Rubinstein, Alvin Z., Moscow's Third World Strategy, Princeton University Press, (ISBN 0-691-07790-8, lire en ligne), 80
  2. ↑ Robert S. McNamara, « Buildup of U.S. Forces in VietNam, Statement by Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, Before the Subcommittee on Department of Defense Appropriations of the Senate Committee on Appropriations on August 4, 1965 », Department of State Bulletin,‎ , p. 369 (lire en ligne, consulté le )
  3. ↑ (en) Chet Ballard, Jon Gubbay et Chris Middleton, The Student's Companion to Sociology, Wiley-Blackwell, (ISBN 0-7567-7867-0), p. 36
  4. ↑ Wendell E. Little, « Wars of National Liberation—Insurgency », Air University Review, no September–October,‎ (lire en ligne, consulté le )
  5. ↑ (en) Benjamin Lieberman, Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe, Rowman & Littlefield, (ISBN 978-1-4422-3038-5)
  6. ↑ Robert M. Hayden, « Schindler's Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Population Transfers », Slavic Review, vol. 55, no 4,‎ , p. 727–748 (ISSN 0037-6779, DOI 10.2307/2501233, JSTOR 2501233, lire en ligne) :

    « "Rendering an area ethnically homogenous by using force or in- timidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group" seems, in fact, an essential element in the program of many state builders and national liberation movements. »
  7. ↑ Herbert C. Kelman, « Negotiating National Identity and Self-Determination in Ethnic Conflicts: The Choice Between Pluralism and Ethnic Cleansing », Negotiation Journal, vol. 13, no 4,‎ , p. 327–340 (DOI 10.1023/A:1024840110195, S2CID 189900927)
  8. ↑ a b c et d Malanczuk, 1997, p. 336.
  9. ↑ Noelle Higgins, « The Application of International Humanitarian Law to Wars of National Liberation », Journal of Humanitarian Assistance,‎ (lire en ligne, consulté le )
  10. ↑ (en) Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, Basic Books, , 432–433 p. (ISBN 9780465003112), « 24 "The Cold War Comes to Africa »
  11. ↑ Shultz, 1988, p. 100.
  12. ↑ Wilson, 1990, p. 119.
  13. ↑ Boczek, 2005, p86.
  14. ↑ Sakwa, Richard (2005), Chechnya: From Past to Future, p. 208. Anthem Press, (ISBN 1-84331-164-X), 9781843311645
  15. ↑ Evangelista, Matthew (2002), The Chechen wars: will Russia go the way of the Soviet Union?, p. 142. Brookings Institution Press, (ISBN 0-8157-2498-5), (ISBN 978-0-8157-2498-8)
  16. ↑ Dunlop, John B. (1998), Russia Confronts Chechnya, p. 93. Cambridge University Press, (ISBN 0-521-63619-1), (ISBN 978-0-521-63619-3)

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