Word: secessionism
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In the weeks before Mengistu fled, when the Americans were trying to persuade him that the country would not unravel if he stepped down, the Eritreans said they were willing to postpone their independence vote, perhaps for several years. But once victory was secured, they wasted no time asserting their...
Turkey's problem is that it already has 7 million to 14.5 million Kurds on its territory. For a decade, Turkey has been trying to suppress Kurdish agitation for autonomy in its eastern provinces. Ankara believes even an autonomous Kurdish region in the area would seduce Turkish Kurds into sedition...
Reactionaries will never forgive him for his earlier policies, while democrats feel betrayed and threatened by his current ones. Nationalists see him as thwarting their drive for independence, while imperialists blame him for tolerating the very idea of secession.
Chaos looms as its contentious republics push toward secession -- and civil war. -- In South Africa, fear and intrigue stall the trial of Winnie Mandela.
It was a measure of the degree of tension, not to say the depths of paranoia bedeviling the country. When they arrived at the federal parliament in Belgrade last week, two Croatian Deputies and their bodyguards were obliged to check their handguns at the door. The gun toters all went...