Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adventurer named Captain Westerling tried to overthrow the government with a mixed force of European mercenaries and native dissidents. The Darul Islam fanatics, who want to set up a theocratic Moslem state by force of arms, took over most of the mountainous area southwest of Bandung in Java; a separatist republic was established in the South Moluccas; the Amboinese, who had long supplied native soldiers to the Dutch, rose in rebellion; the people of Atjeh in Northern Sumatra, who fight everybody, fought the government...
Long before Britain set Ghana free, the proud, separatist-minded Ashanti tribesmen who make up about 20% of Ghana's population were implacably opposed to Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party. Instead of treading softly in the face of this opposition, Nkrumah decided to live it up as the first black ever to become a Prime Minister in the Commonwealth. He evicted Britain's Governor General from 296-year-old Christianborg Castle, and moved in himself. He put his head on Ghana's stamps, announced his intention of putting it on the country...
There were two good reasons why Sukarno's plan seemed doomed to fail: first, he insisted on including Communist sympathizers or fellow travelers in the Emergency Cabinet; second was a rising crescendo of protest from separatist leaders in Sumatra, the Celebes and elsewhere, who decried the Emergency Cabinet as unconstitutional...
...slice (73%) of its imports. Sumatra, on the other hand, contributes 72% of Indonesia's exports in return for 20% of its imports. Added to these items of resentment was anger at rampant government corruption. By last week, military commanders had proclaimed a series of bloodless revolts and separatist movements that left the central government in effective control of only the island of Java and a small section of north central Sumatra...
There was a further shock in store for Sukarno, who hitherto has enjoyed almost complete freedom from criticism. Though many army officers have participated in separatist revolts in East Indonesia and Sumatra (TIME. Dec. 31), Army Chief of Staff General Abdul Haris Nasution has been unswervingly loyal to Sukarno. Last week, in a blunt, private session with the President. Good Soldier Nasution told Sukarno flatly that taking Communists into the government could well lead to all-out civil war. A high-ranking Moslem politician was still more forthright. "If the Communists come in," he said, "we will take...