Word: separatist
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After more than two years of civil strife that has led to some 2,000 deaths, tentative steps were taken last week toward a settlement between Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist movements and the government of President Junius Jayewardene. Under pressure from India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the island nation's warring factions began peace talks in Thimbu, capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Shortly afterward the government, which is dominated by Sri Lanka's 70% majority of Sinhalese Buddhists, lifted nighttime curfews imposed on five northern districts heavily populated by Tamil-speaking Hindus. The government also released...
...role in the Asia-Pacific region. But the attacks of 9/11 shifted Washington's foreign policy focus for the next three years almost entirely to the Middle East and the al-Qaeda challenge. China was an eager and willing ally against al-Qaeda, facing its own problems from Muslim separatist groups backed by al-Qaeda and the Taliban in its westernmost provinces...
...point in negotiations between the Shiite and the Kurdish lists has been less over the makeup of the executive branch than over broad guarantees demanded by the Kurds for secularism and adherence to the TAL (which is rejected, in principle, by Sistani, among others) - and more importantly, over Kurdish separatist demands. The Kurds are using the kingmaker status granted them by the TAL to demand not only that they maintain the autonomy they have enjoyed for over a decade under the protection of the Allied ?no-fly? zone, but also that their domain be extended to include the fiercely contested...
...basis of his popularity. He hailed the war as a rallying point for reviving Russia’s territorial unity and national pride and as a clear signal of Russia’s military will to Western nations and to Russia’s other ethnically-based would-be separatist regions...
KILLED. ASLAN MASKHADOV, 53, separatist leader elected President of the Chechen Republic in 1997, during a brief period of self-rule; by Russian special forces, who cornered him in a bunker and bombed it when he refused to surrender; in Tolstoy-Yurt, Chechnya. After the slaying of this relative moderate, who was open to negotiation with the Russian government, rebels vowed to carry on an Islamic holy war to wrench the region from Russian control...