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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
1965 February 18: Gambia Independence Day
2003 February 20: Spanish police close the only Basque language newspaper
2014 February 20: Heavenly Hundred Remembrance Day in Ukraine
February 21: International Mother Language Day
1979 February 22: Saint Lucia Independence Day
1918 February 24: Estonia Independence Day
1950 February 25: Kuwait National Day
2014 February 27: Russia’s annexation of Crimea
1844 February 27: Dominican Republic Independence Day
1976 February 27: Proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
1947 February 28: 2.28 Incident in Taiwan
1992 March 1: Bosnia and Herzegovina Independence Day
589 March 1: Saint David’s, National Day of Wales
1878 March 3: Liberation Day in Bulgaria
March 5: St Piran’s Day, Cornwall national day
1991 March 5: Kurdish National Uprising in Iraq
1957 March 6: Ghana, 1st sub-Saharan African country to become independent from colonial rule
1944 March 8: Mass deportation of the Balkars by Stalin’s Soviet Union
1959 March 10: Tibetan National Uprising Day
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Barcelona mayor and European Greens’ head support prosecuted Catalan independence leaders
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Spanish police clash with striking protesters in Catalonia
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Security chief in south Libya town assassinated
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Mexico’s indigenous languages at risk of disappearing
About 60,000 residents in the Navajo Nation don’t have power
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Inuit leaders say staying priest’s sex charges will traumatize victims again
Japan’s new policy on the Ainu is misleading
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Two cheers for the European Parliament Roma Resolution
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Ireland publishes no-deal Brexit bill it hopes it won’t need
Basque Country Steps up as international climate leader
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Moroccan occupation forces intervene against Saharawi demonstrators in the occupied capital Aaiun
Turkey holds hundreds over alleged ties to Kurdish militants
US threatens to abandon Kurdish-led SDF if they work with Assad
Syrian Kurds call on EU countries to help create safe zone in Syria
Iraqi Kurdistan elects first ever female parliament speaker
Turkish authorities remove multilingual signboard in Kurdish city
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Swiss army officer that fought ISIS barely avoids jail time
Turkey blocks Kurdish politician’s mayoral bid in Batman city
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