Word: secessionist
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...Kurdish parties that have governed the section of northern Iraq liberated from Baghdad in 1991 officially deny they plan to seek an independent state, that goal has long been an organizing principle of local Kurdish politics. And Turkey, fearful that even formalized Kurdish autonomy in Iraq would stoke secessionist passions among its own Kurdish minority, has threatened to send its own troops into the region to keep a lid on Kurdish ambitions during the breaking down of the Saddam order, and to disarm the Kurdish militias...
...which will have one army but two currencies, and which will be given a three-year trial run. Last year the European Union urged separatist-leaning Montenegrins to shelve their desire for independence from larger Serbia. The E.U. feared that a move toward independence by Montenegro would encourage other secessionist movements, notably in neighboring Kosovo...
...could be dismembered, destabilizing the regional balance of power: The members of Saddam's regime are largely drawn from the country's 15 percent Sunni Muslim minority. Sixty percent of the population are Shiite Muslims, and the largest opposition group among them is allied with Tehran. To the north, secessionist-minded Kurds make up a further 20 percent of the population. Their aspirations diametrically opposed to the interests of Turkey, which fears it's own Kurdish minority across the border would try to join the Iraqi Kurds in a new state...
...airspace to attain this objective,'' said Jordan's Information Minister Mohammad al-Adwan Tuesday. That sentiment has been echoed by the Saudis, Kuwaitis and anti-Saddam Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq. If they do participate, the Kurds minimum demand is autonomy within a new Iraqi federation. But domestic secessionist concerns make Turkey, another key staging area for a U.S. attack, implacably hostile to anything resembling a Kurdish political entity on its borders...
...Nowhere are the two faces of the military?traditionally oppressive, potentially progressive?more evident than in Aceh, where the army is locked in a bloody battle for control of the province with the secessionist Free Aceh Movement, or GAM. Villagers living along Aceh's one main road welcome the TNI as an antidote to rampaging police units. But off the road, in benighted hamlets, little has changed. "Most TNI still behave the same way?brutally," says Fitri, a 22-year-old volunteer with Care Human Rights Forum, known locally as FP HAM. Fitri produces half a dozen photo albums...