Politically, such action takes the form of autonomist, separatist and irredentist movements. |
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In many cases they were mistakenly killed by security personnel, separatist rebels or armed groups. |
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It was involved in a series of civil wars against separatist movements of Eritreans and Tigrayans, as well as the Oromos and Somalis. |
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She also said her top priority was to prevent the diverse archipelago being torn apart by separatist rebellions. |
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This would be no more separatist than what the Americans have already conceded to the Kurds in the north. |
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The Abkhaz separatist dispute also continues to absorb much of the government's attention. |
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He acted with extreme brutality against separatist tendencies in the Caucasus. |
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Many of the Maori tribes had made it clear that they would not support any Maori party that was exclusive or separatist. |
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Further separatist attacks on security forces and ethnic Thais were carried out over the following days. |
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Here some doctors worked clandestinely for the separatists and turned it into a den of separatist conspiracies. |
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The country was not yet seriously challenged by separatist sentiments, religious radicalism or inter-ethnic conflict. |
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Radical-right movements also emerged where ruling nationalities were threatened by separatist movements. |
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If not handled carefully, this decentralization may pose as much a threat to national unity as armed separatist movements. |
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She has a major obsession to end all ethnic conflicts and separatist movements throughout the country. |
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Tensions in the region, which once hosted an armed separatist movement that mostly faded in the 1980s, have been rising for months. |
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Last week, the flag was banned, with the government arguing it has been misused to serve separatist movements. |
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In some cases, such as ethnic separatist movements, straightforward concessions may in principle remove the cause of violence. |
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Army generals want to mount limited offensive operations against thousands of well-armed separatist rebels. |
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He must prevent the violence from spreading and stoking separatist sentiments elsewhere. |
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A long line of Coalition ministers and shadow ministers succumbed to the newly fashionable separatist doctrine. |
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The formation of new provinces was also expected to help security authorities to control separatist activities in the region. |
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The separatist movement is violating the law, as they are conducting a rebellion. |
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But Spain is also home to several of Europe's most active separatist movements. |
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The five have been detained by police since late last year on suspicions of illegal separatist activities in the troubled province. |
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When, if ever, should international law and institutions support separatist claims? |
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He himself revealed the other aspects of the agenda on which he had sought separatist support. |
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I have to say that the Olympiad for breakaway regions, disputed territories and separatist enclaves quite appeals to me. |
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You want to keep on pouring out the same old toxic separatist and communalist rhetoric. |
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Resistance to Amhara dominance resulted in various separatist movements, particularly in Eritrea and among the Oromo. |
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Most of the inmates of this particular prison are members or sympathisers of the local separatist movement in the province. |
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Initially youths joined the separatist movement out of altruistic reasons to save their group identity from being eclipsed. |
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But evangelicals and Pentecostals should, it is urged, give up their separatist ways. |
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Cross-border firing and separatist militancy have left a death toll running into tens of thousands. |
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The armed separatist group placed bombs on two high-tension electricity towers run by grid operator Red Electrica. |
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Now they want to connive, aided and abetted by the separatist Bloc, to overturn the results of an election held only seven weeks ago. |
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For the time being, de facto territories of the regions are temporarily and illegally under control of separatist regimes. |
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Both are multiethnic states haunted by the twin spectres of racial tension and a separatist periphery. |
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He has everything to lose militarily, politically and on the human front from rushing ahead on the issue of the separatist conflicts. |
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The organization urged the Indonesian government to withdraw the 2007 government regulation that bans the display of separatist flags. |
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The Catalan separatist movement has been growing in recent years, as demonstrated each September with a march on Barcelona. |
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Meanwhile, as if to keep the paperwork straight, the separatist government in Donetsk has formally introduced the death penalty. |
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However, the move appeared to be designed to isolate and better control Papuan separatist sentiment. |
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Last week separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko claimed that Russian soldiers were volunteers on vacation. |
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The first was the Anjouan separatist crisis, followed by an institutional crisis and a conflict of responsibilities. |
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This largely symbolic motion, which passed, was designed to preempt a more extreme one planned by the separatist Bloc Québécois. |
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Three times in the past two decades, Mali's army fought separatist fighters from the local Tuareg people to a draw. |
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In the mid-century, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Fenians began a genuinely separatist movement, whose support in Irish elections was rarely measured. |
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This year under considerable pressure from the army, the president gave the go-ahead for a military offensive against separatist guerillas in Aceh. |
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Unless, of course, Scotland takes a collective brainstorm and opts for the Green Trot Nat coalition which united last week around the separatist standard. |
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Bhutto refused to form a government with this separatist party, causing a nullification of the election. |
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As in Ireland, there is a deep rift between nationalists who can accommodate to a kind of autonomy and those who hold to the purist separatist ideal. |
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In Bombay, Indian police arrest four men suspected of being members of Harakat al-Ansar, a Kashmiri separatist group that also invokes the deity in its works. |
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These people are now sitting with that separatist party just because they want to be in power. |
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But the worry now is that the separatist movement has spiralled out of control. |
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Some popular movements were actually separatist in character. |
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At the last moment, however, he baulked and called on his followers to fight for their separatist cause through constitutional means. |
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Many are ill-equipped and overworked and are forced to deal with problems like sectarian riots and various separatist movements. |
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Aznar jumped to conclusions, quickly blaming Basque separatist organization ETA for the al Qaeda attack. |
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A ceasefire was in effect, but the Ukrainian army was still fighting with pro-Russian separatist forces in the east. |
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The only way that successive regimes in Jakarta have been able to prevent the rise of separatist sentiment, however, is with the jackboot of the military. |
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Some among us, of course, fear federalism would merely embitter these separatist tendencies until they tear our country apart. |
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But if he hoped this would dampen separatist demands he was wrong. |
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The separatist Party in Quebec won a lot of seats not because people are voting vote separation but as a place to park their votes and not vote for the Liberals. |
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On Sunday 20 and Monday 21 September it was the turn of ETA, the Basque separatist organisation, to spill blood in three attacks. |
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The SNP is a separatist party on the cusp of national power, and is not afraid to say how it would use it. |
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In those villages the Abkhazian separatist government set up a temporary administration. |
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I have proposed talks with Moscow and with the leaders of the separatist regions, in order to find common ground. |
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There is also a growing sense that differences between different separatist militias could lead to confrontation. |
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The Council also emphasised the importance of actively promoting peaceful solutions to the internal conflicts, whether separatist or sectarian in nature in Central Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Papua, Aceh and Central Kalimantan. |
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People know that not only am I an independent, but I am also a separatist. |
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She's a feminist whose increasing involvement in the leathergirl scene puts her in direct conflict with her separatist friends. |
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On 30 December 2004 President Wade announced that he would sign a peace treaty with the separatist group in the Casamance region. |
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What is not responsible for the future of this country, however, is a Liberal-NDP-Bloc government that would bend to the whim and the desire of a separatist party whose only reason for existing is to destroy Canada. |
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The outcome will either strongly deter other separatist movements from attempting to secede, or produce a result that could encourage them to act in a similar fashion. |
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The separatist sentiment in Kashmir is partly a product of India's failures, but in many ways it is adscititious, burning off the fuel pumped by Pakistan. |
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In Spain recently the previous government tried to shift the blame for three major bomb attacks onto a separatist movement rather than an international movement because that would be better for them in the elections. |
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We have Matthew Rhys from The Americans as a Welsh separatist. |
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When a Bloc member, a separatist member, demanded from the Speaker that I remove it, I had a short regression to the rebellion of my youth, that type of response. |
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Mr Bradshaw's seeming contempt for sugarless Nevis, which lacked cane-cutters for him to organise, nourished separatist feeling on the smaller island. |
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As in many conflict situations, civilians are the biggest casualty in the witch hunt against separatist or rebels in the name of combating terrorism. |
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That does not make any difference to the government members or to their friends and accomplices on the separatist side who have been working hand in glove devising this legislation. |
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Any separatist who stood for election risked looking like a stooge, which might have been India's hope. The Hurriyat is boycotting the polls, though unenthusiastically. |
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This compelled divided separatist leaders to close ranks behind them. |
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Since the separatist leaders will not support that objective, our government has decided to enact legislation to ensure that our democratic tradition is not usurped by double talk and double dealing. |
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In Soviet times, before the region that the airport serves was desolated by separatist insurgencies, blood feuds and government brutality, the nearby mineral spas were popular holiday resorts. |
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This caused the villages of the Zugdidi region, Ganmukhuri and Khurcha, to fall under the occupation of the Russian army and armed gangs of the Abkhazian separatist regime. |
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The international community was under an obligation not to recognize separatist entities or to render assistance to them, since doing otherwise would be tantamount to endorsing the prevalence of force over justice. |
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The PKK emerged in the 1980s as a terrorist group within Turkey that claimed to represent the Turkish Kurds' quest for a cultural identity, whereas in fact it had a Marxist-Leninist and separatist agenda. |
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Also revealed among the RCMP Security Service's activities was the torching of a barn outside of Montreal, which had been used as a meeting place of Quebec intellectuals suspected of having separatist affiliations. |
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Other people, who will ride on their coattails when it suits their political ambitions, will sometimes enter into socialist, separatist or opportunist alliances. |
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Dumont may not be a separatist, but neither is he a federalist, and as anautonomisthe is certain to push for more powers for Quebec without a referendum. |
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I note that some of my colleagues noted that we do not take great joy in having to take such a step, but we do so because the separatist leaders continue to brandish the threat of another referendum on separation. |
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President Putin's army and special services operate in eastern Ukraine, often covertly, supporting separatist formations that terrorize the local population and openly threatening invasion. |
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Viljoen, with his strong following in the old regime's military establishment, was seen by white right-wingers at the time of the election as the potential leader of a separatist war. |
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The hon. member, who is a sovereigntist and a separatist, should be trying to create a Canadian industrial family, instead of sulking and trying to leave us. |
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It is noteworthy that the only time Mr. Parizeau ever toned down his hard line separatist rhetoric was at the very time he was in a position to put it into practice. |
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Although their traditional opponents, the Conservatives, were all but annihilated, they now confront an avowedly separatist opposition party with the staunchly right-wing Reform party as a close third. |
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It is not surprising, then, that no sooner had the Indonesian government in Jakarta collapsed Indonesia's federal structure than South Sulawesi and then Ambon rose in separatist revolt. |
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Sortu, the non-violent separatist movement that emerged in 2011, may have to drag ETA towards peace yet again. That would be welcomed by Madrid, but government stubbornness carries risks. |
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Mr President, the separatist formation of Transnistria recently conducted a self-styled referendum to approve the idea of Anschluss of this part of Moldova into the Russian Federation. |
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Beijing's quandary is how to maintain its authority in Xinjiang whilst avoiding exacerbating the separatist crisis through measures that, inevitably, must accommodate the basic demands of the extremists for greater autonomy. |
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In some countries, separatist processes are going on, and separatist sentiments are often accompanied with nationalistic ones. |
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday I thought I had seen everything when I saw the member for Papineau, the son of Pierre Trudeau, actually join his leader in a standing ovation for the leader of the separatist Bloc. |
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As the eurozone crisis continues, anti-establishment insurgencies like the SNP's are surfacing all over Europe: nationalist, populist, separatist, left or right. |
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He told the Lowy Institute the milestone was proof the west's diplomatic pressure and sanctions against Russia – which is backing separatist rebels in the east – were bearing fruit. |
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Two of the women said that actually they supported the separatist movement, while the 62-year-old head of the village electoral committee said it had been harder than ever before to get people to work on the committee. |
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And for a leadership already grappling with separatist movements in the western regions Tibet and Xinjiang, any sort of successful independence movement would set an unthinkable precedent. |
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More powers and more cash for Edinburgh, obviously, and anything that might advance their separatist agenda which, if ever successful, will be poison to Labour's future prospects. |
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Now, for better or for worse, we have separatists all over the place in the Canadian Parliament and calling a member of the Bloc Québécois a separatist is only stating a fact. |
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There is also the serious risk of the latent separatist tendencies in Ngazidja assuming more alarming proportions, which could undermine the unity and stability of the Archipelago. |
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In short separatist tendencies still persist in Anjouan. |
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I want to state very clearly that the illegal separatist authorities and armed formations are under the control and direction of the security and defence agencies of the Russian Federation. |
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When she could divulge no information about the separatist movement, she was beaten on the head with a rifle and burnt with cigarettes until she lost consciousness. |
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The election was called by provincial Premier Pauline Marois, the leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois. |
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Under pressure from separatist groups within the Sudeten German Party, the Czechoslovak government offered economic concessions to the region. |
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On 6 April 2016 photos of OSCE monitors attending the wedding of a Russian separatist were found. |
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In February 2015, after a summit hosted in Belarus, Poroshenko negotiated a ceasefire with the separatist troops. |
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In 1923 Mainz participated in the Rhineland separatist movement that proclaimed a republic in the Rhineland. |
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The confederation had become so close a political alliance that it no longer tolerated separatist tendencies in its members. |
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This, however, led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements. |
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The 1990s were plagued by armed conflicts in the North Caucasus, both local ethnic skirmishes and separatist Islamist insurrections. |
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The Chechen separatist movement of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria lacks any international recognition. |
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Smaller numbers are involved in nationalist or separatist political organisations. |
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Some organisations, like Verdinaso appealed directly to Flemish separatist ideologies, though they did not become very popular. |
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He is a Scottish nationalist and has a large collection of separatist literature. |
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People were astonished by his impassioned speeches at separatist meetings. |
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A police official in Assam, said yesterday that two districts where separatist rebels gunned down Adivasi tribe members remained tense but calm. |
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The burgeoning local narcoeconomy has led separatist Miskito Indians to formally consider using the drug money for local needs. |
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Some have blamed Zanzibari separatist organisation Uamsho for the unrest. |
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To a man, Cyrenaica's new landlords insist they are the launchpad for a countrywide liberation, with Tripoli as the capital, not a separatist movement. |
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Igor Girkin, defence minister of the separatist republic, said in an interview with the Russian television channel Life News that he had arrived in Donetsk from Slovyansk. |
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The Donetsk airport, completed for Euro 2012, was destroyed by the end of 2014 because of the ongoing war between the government and the separatist movement. |
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This separatist group supports a united Frisia as a recognized country. |
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We cannot be hog-tied and pulled back by the separatists on a question answered a year ago and we cannot get bogged down in the separatist neverendum. |
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From the 1950s to 1960s, the country struggled to maintain its unity against local insurgencies and separatist movements in some of its provinces. |
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Tell students that East Timor split off and became independent last year, and that there are separatist movements in northwest Sumatra and Irian Jaya. |
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Like China's war on terror, Russia's has also been focused on separatist and Islamist movements that use political violence to achieve their ends. |
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In the 21st century the Communists are gone but political and cultural tensions remained high as shown by separatist Padanian nationalism in the North. |
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Things can get especially tense, he said, when the evictees are former soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the separatist guerrilla group that fought the Serbs. |
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Moldova's proximity to Europe, limited law enforcement capacity, and lack of control of the separatist Transnistria region complicate drug control efforts. |
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Domestic politics on occasion spilled over into street violence, border tensions, and a violent separatist movement in the southern region of the Casamance. |
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Rido has wider implications for conflict in Mindanao, primarily because it tends to interact in unfortunate ways with separatist conflict and other forms of armed violence. |
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