Word: separatist
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...gunmen walked into a bar in Lasarte in northern Spain last week and shot dead the town's deputy mayor, Froilán Elespe. Earlier, a car bomb in Roses, in eastern Spain, killed a Catalan police officer. No one doubted the murders were the work of the Basque separatist group eta. In towns and villages across Spain thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest the killings...
...Macedonian army appears to have forced the separatist rebels into a hurried and disorganized retreat from the villages they'd been holding around Tetovo. Is this the end of the insurgency...
...success or failure of guerrilla warfare is measured less by the guerrillas' ability to capture and hold territory than by their ability to use armed actions to transform the political situation. By that measure, have the separatist guerrillas succeeded in Macedonia...
Macedonia's "mini war" isn't going to end anytime soon. Government forces prepared Wednesday to relaunch what their commanders have called a "final offensive" against Albanian separatist guerrillas, after the insurgents appeared to reject a 24-hour ultimatum to lay down their arms or leave Macedonia. After launching a heavy artillery bombardment of guerrilla positions in the hills around Tetovo, Tuesday, government forces declared a unilateral cease-fire to allow the rebels to respond to their ultimatum. But there was no indication that the separatist fighters, many of whom are veterans of Kosovo?s KLA, have any intention...
...offensive not yet launched, their intention is usually simply to raise morale. And the Macedonian military's operations around Tetovo - moving reinforcements and a handful of archaic tanks into city and pounding the surrounding hillsides - appear to be aimed primarily at reassuring Macedonia's Slav majority that the separatist rebellion would not be tolerated. The Macedonian army is neither trained nor equipped for the counterinsurgency operation required to dislodge the guerrillas from the high ground, and might suffer heavy casualties if they tried to charge up the hillsides into the villages held by the rebels. Having reinforced the town...