The Tuaregs in Mali and in neighboring countries have long fought for autonomy, including a violent but failed 1990s uprising.
However, the junta's refusal to release Ms Suu Kyi prompted her party, the National League for Democracy, to boycott the convention, wiping out its credibility.General Khin Nyunt's main success arguably came in negotiating a series of ceasefires with Myanmar's ethnic minorities, bringing some respite from their long battles for autonomy.
The units are dominated by members of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD, Syria's most powerful Kurdish group, affiliated with the Turkish Kurdish movement PKK, which long fought for autonomy in southeastern Turkey.
After weeks and months of following a conductor's lead, many orchestral players long for the autonomy and the intimacy of chamber music.
In the decades-long fight for autonomy by the Tuareg rebels, the town of Menaka in the east of the country has been on the front line, typically the first to be captured each time the separatists rise up against the central government.
After a decades-long struggle for autonomy, projections indicate that 92percentt of Kurds voted on Monday for the establishment of their own state.
After a decades-long struggle for autonomy, projections indicate that 92percentt of Kurds voted on Monday for the establishment of their own state.
In 2003, after a long, violent campaign for autonomy, the Bodo got their own Bodo Territorial Council, on whose turf outsiders may not own property.
The alliance between the United States government and Kurdish political parties in Iraq has come under intense strain in recent days, with Kurdish leaders accusing the Americans of trying to block their long stifled hopes for autonomy in the new Iraqi state.
Turkey considers them terrorists, the Syrian branch of Turkish Kurds who have fought a decades-long guerrilla war for autonomy.
