In its first issue of 1996, the Leiden Journal of International Law published an Editorial from the hands of René Lefeber and David Raič. In it, their main contention is that even if the Chechen people might not have had a right to external self-determination before December 1994, it acquired such a right due to Russia's massive and indiscriminate use of military force in December 1994. This right to external self-determination, so they claim, entails a (correlative?) right to secession.