annexation

Annexation is he act and consequence of annexing. The verb append, meanwhile, refers to attach or attach one thing to another.

The idea of annexation is often used with reference to a process through which a State incorporates, by force, a territory that was part of another State. Annexation implies that the occupying forces access the region in question to appropriate it, accompanying the action with a unilateral declaration.

It is important to mention that annexation can be related to a conquest. International law does not recognize this type of procedure, while state who resort to annexation to incorporate territories do not usually use this concept.

Annexation involves seize another country, either in a total way or in a particular area. In this framework, the occupier eliminates the nation's institutions and transfers his own, using mainly his armed forces.

A example annexation took place in 1951, when the annexation of tibet by China. The Kingdom of Tibet had achieved its independence in 1912; however, in the early 1990s 1950, the army of the People's Republic of China invaded their territory (to "Release it", according to the Chinese communist regime). Today the Tibet it has the status of an autonomous region, although it belongs to the Chinese state.

On 1990, on the other hand, Iraq proceeded to annexation of Kuwait. This military action triggered the beginning of the call Gulf war: with the surrender of Iraq that put an end to the warlike conflict, Kuwait got back his independence.