Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority student groups inherently ethnocentric and separatist? Or do they provide a cultural haven that supplements other student activities...
...Lanka seemed gripped by madness last week as a series of violent attacks resulted in the slaughter of more than 200 people. The killings began when separatist guerrillas belonging to the country's predominantly Hindu Tamil minority hijacked a bus and headed for Anuradhapura, a city largely inhabited by Buddhist Sinhalese. As the guerrillas drove into the city's crowded main bus station, they opened fire with automatic weapons, killing about 100 men, women and children. Then they drove to the Sri Maha Bodhiya, a sacred Buddhist site, and fired indiscriminately into a crowd that included nuns and monks...
...defeat a proposed ban on the teaching of evolution. Said Ervin at the time: "The monkeys in the jungle will be pleased to know that the North Carolina legislature has absolved them from any responsibility for humanity." Despite his own robust Presbyterianism, he was an absolute church- and-state separatist...
Virtually every night since then, small groups of guerrillas have stolen across the waters to prepare for a showdown battle with the Sri Lankan army. Last week the war all but broke out. First the rebels, who represent the island's 2.6 million mostly Hindu Tamils in a separatist struggle against 11 million mainly Buddhist Sinhalese, killed three civilians whom they suspected of being government informers. Then they planted a bomb that ripped apart sections of a train in the capital, Colombo. Finally, hundreds of the so- called Tamil Tigers cut off electricity in the northern city of Jaffna, blasted...
...building. At least 18 people died and 82 were injured. The blast may have been a terrorist attack aimed at U.S. military personnel who regularly eat at the restaurant. No Americans were killed, but eleven were injured. Two newspapers later received telephone calls claiming that ETA, the Basque separatist group, was responsible. Calls to Madrid radio stations claimed that an urban terrorist group called GRAPO had bombed the restaurant. Although officials said there was no evidence that these groups were involved, they said they were "working on the theory that it could be a terrorist bomb...