Bangladesh: An Inspiration for the World, Democracy, Self-Determination, Armenia/Artsakh

After WWII, many countries gained independence from their former colonial masters.

And then came Bangladesh in 1971, which seceded from Pakistan to gain independence not from a colonial master, but rather from a peer nation that had formerly been colonized.

Since then, world powers have been very reluctant to allow anyone else to mimic Bangladesh. Nevertheless, some regional ethnic groups since then have seceded to form their own independent countries with international recognition. Kosovo from Serbia. East Timor from Indonesia. South Sudan from Sudan.

Some civilized countries have also allowed regional minorities to vote for independence or not, and they did not choose independence. Puerto Rico, Quebec, and Scotland are the primary examples.

But Bangladesh was the first. Pakistan, however, did not allow Bangladeshis to vote; instead the Bangladeshis had to fight for independence, and could not have won independence without support from the Indian military.

So, why is the world not doing more to support other regional minorities that want independence? Why did the world, for example, not support the ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh (also known as Artsakh) in their claim to independence after they voted for independence and won a liberation war gaining de facto on the ground independence in the mid 1990s?