Abstract
Abstract While a government’s efforts to suppress an insurgency normally are a domestic matter, in cases of colonial domination and alien occupation the principle of external self-determination demands that the colonial and occupying powers not prevent the subjugated people from choosing their international status. A state breaching this erga omnes obligation can thus no longer hide behind the principle of non-intervention. The principle of external self-determination prohibits any form of assistance to a colonial or occupying power, regardless of whether or not the unrest has become a civil war. Furthermore, while the principle of non-intervention normally prohibits all assistance to insurgents, it does not proscribe non-military support to a people under colonial rule or alien occupation aimed at terminating the unlawful situation. The principle of non-intervention, however, continues to apply to secessionist armed struggles beyond the colonial and alien occupation contexts, as no right of external self-determination exists in such cases.
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