Word: separatist
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...precipitated, have put their own campaign for independence in geopolitical limbo. And suspicion naturally falls first on elements of the formally disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army, which have been accused of continuing a campaign of low-level violence against the territory's remaining Serb minority and also of backing a separatist guerrilla movement in the heavily ethnic-Albanian villages of the Presevo Valley just across the border inside Serbia...
...fear of Quebec's secession from the rest of the Confederation, a party's campaign is either a five to eight week advertisement on the virtues of Canada or a jumble of plans for the renovation of the country and the Constitution. The continuous threat posed by the separatist movement forces Canadians to think about the direction of their society at every election. It is a chance for us to pretend we all hate politics and then happily engage in arduous and arcane political debates about the country's identity and values. It is a time when the society takes...
...died Thursday in Montreal at age 80, served an almost uninterrupted 16 years as Canada's prime minister, from 1968 until his resignation in 1984. Flamboyant, determined and occasionally quixotic, Trudeau helped establish Canada's modern identity, opened its eyes to the wider world, and fought the Quebec separatist movement that threatened to split the country in two. Richard Duncan, former Ottawa bureau chief (and TIME.com editor), remembers Trudeau from the years he covered...
...massacre this week of 90 Indian pilgrims in Kashmir may prove to be more of a headache for Pakistan's General Parvez Musharraf than for India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Tuesday's killings are believed to be the work of Kashmiri separatist guerrillas aiming to preempt historic peace talks between the largest separatist organization, Hizbul Mujahideen, and the Indian government. Pakistan hosts and sponsors all of the separatist groups fighting to end Indian rule in the disputed, predominantly Muslim territory and unite with Pakistan. But General Musharraf, under pressure from the West to ease tensions with India...
...decades; it has been plunged into war or near-war for nearly two. According to Ondaatje's carefully detached preface, "From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, Sri Lanka was in a crisis that involved three essential groups: the government, the antigovernment insurgents in the south and the separatist guerrillas in the north... Eventually, in response, legal and illegal government squads were known to have been sent out to hunt down the separatists and the insurgents...