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...Catalans the only regional nationalist movement pressing centuries-old linguistic, ethnic and historical claims on the forward-looking government in Madrid. In the Basque country, also endowed with extensive autonomy in the post-Franco era, separatist political sentiment remains ubiquitous, and terrorist actions by ETA continue...
...around the country: vigilante gangs run rampant in the countryside, while ethnic groups long marginalized under the monarchy have taken to armed uprising, especially in the southern lowlands of the Tarai where over 40% of Nepal's population lives. A cocktail of anarchist elements, militant factions and a growing separatist movement hold sway there and prove a daunting challenge with elections coming in little more than two months. "What happened in Kenya could happen here," says Jayaraj Acharya, a former Nepalese ambassador to the U.N., speaking of the ongoing ethnic conflict in the African nation triggered by disputed elections, which...
Meanwhile, the regime brooked no opposition. Behind the President's smile were very sharp teeth. Student activists would vanish, dissident writers and journalists jailed. Thousands were killed in Aceh, where a separatist rebellion simmered for 29 years; and more than 200,000 are believed to have perished in East Timor after Indonesia invaded the tiny Portuguese enclave in 1975. (East Timor has since established its independence from Indonesia...
...Prime Minister's efforts have been successful. The violent collapse of peace negotiations with the Basque separatist group ETA is his most notable failure - and one that continues to haunt him. Nonetheless, Spain is a very different place now than it was four years...
...most uncivil. Often, such hostilities involve rival ethnic groups, each wanting its own identity and space and, often, these disputes are the most emotional and intractable. So it is with Sri Lanka. Colombo's decision to officially pull out of a 2002 cease-fire agreement with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) was just a confirmation of what Sri Lankans have known for months - war has returned to the strife-torn Indian Ocean island nation...