Word: separatists
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...TIME: Beijing sometimes refers to you as a separatist. Chen: I understand it very clearly that they dislike me, and I'm not surprised that they call me names. [But] as the leader of this country, it is my duty to defend and safeguard Taiwan. I cannot betray the people of Taiwan, nor can I betray my own conscience...
...DIED. ZELIMKHAN YANDARBIYEV, 51, exiled separatist leader who was Chechnya's President from 1996-97; after a bomb exploded in his car as he drove home from Friday prayers with his teenage son, who was injured in the blast; in Doha, Qatar. Russia had been working to extradite the Islamic extremist for his alleged involvement in the deadly Moscow theater siege in 2002 and for alleged ties to al-Qaeda...
...Things do not happen with a click of the fingers." Maulana Abbas Ansari, chairman of Kashmir's largest separatist group, on peace talks in New Delhi with the Indian government...
...Line of Control through Kashmir in 1949, dividing the disputed Himalayan region into Indian and Pakistani parts. Because the Line of Control also split the area around Khan's village of Uroosa, he was cut off from all but his most immediate family. The divide deepened in 1989, when separatist rebels, incensed at India's heavy-handed rule of its only Muslim-majority state, began an uprising in the meadows of the Kashmir valley to the east. India suppressed the insurgency with an iron fist and reinforced its border with hundreds of thousands of troops; Pakistan sent money first...
...DIED. ERSA SIREGAR, 52, Indonesian television reporter who was caught in the cross fire in a shoot-out between Indonesian troops and members of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM), who were holding him; in East Aceh, Indonesia. The head of the International Federation of Journalists said the rebels had earlier agreed to free Siregar and his cameraman, but closing the deal fell apart because the military wouldn't allow human-rights organizations in to arrange the release. The military placed the blame on GAM and accused the rebels of using Siregar as a human shield...