The phrase "a separatist attack" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing violence or actions taken by groups seeking independence or separation from a larger political entity.
Example: "The region has experienced increased tension following a separatist attack that targeted government officials."
Alternatives: "an insurgent attack" or "a factional attack".
Thousands in Kiev and other cities on Sunday afternoon attended a "requiem" march for the 12 bus passengers killed in an apparent separatist attack on a Ukrainian military checkpoint near Volnovakha in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday.
(Agence France-Presse) CANADA: QUEBEC SEPARATIST ATTACK -- A radical Quebec separatist group, the French Language Self-Defense Brigade, has claimed responsibility for firebombing a Montreal church, St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church, that an English language rights group, Alliance Quebec, was to have used for a fund-raising event.
But a video shot at the checkpoint shows what are likely Grad rockets striking near the road more than a dozen times, then pans to the damaged bus stopped next to a black crater in the snow, suggesting a separatist rocket attack was responsible for the carnage.
The separatist attack, he added, was the heaviest since a battle for the town of Debaltseve in February.
Poroshenko said Ukraine was currently regrouping its forces, not in preparation for a future offensive but in order to defend territory from possible renewed separatist attack.
President Poroshenko accuses the rebels of jeopardising "the entire peace process" and says Ukrainian forces should prepare defences against separatist attack.
During No Rouz, he added, "everyone is in the villages and mobile phones don't work there". The US refusal to exclude the use of military force against Iran to stop its nuclear programme, together with a series of separatist attacks in Iran's border regions had put the Revolutionary Guard on alert for incursions.
Thirty years ago, thousands were killed by Indian troops in an anti-separatist attack on its Golden Temple, and in the pogroms that followed the retaliatory assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
They claim that apparent separatist attacks, such as a recent raid on a government arms depot, are actually instigated by the army to justify its own presence.As for Aceh, the government, which agreed to an "all-inclusive dialogue" last December, now wants to exclude any talk of independence.
