In China's far western province of Xinjiang, where a small but persistent separatist movement percolates among the mainly Muslim population, people have been shot for "separatism," according to local newspaper reports.
BEIJING — The Communist Party chief of Sichuan Province, a large area in western China that includes restive Tibetan towns, visited some of the Tibetan areas earlier this week and urged residents to follow the law and oppose separatism, according to a report Friday in Sichuan Daily, an official newspaper.
Twenty Uighurs, sentenced to lengthy jail terms this month for involvement in terrorism and separatism, were, according to exiles, guilty merely of reading banned material on the internet.A dangerous neighbourhoodIt is understandable that China is nervous about the spread of Islamist extremism.
During a state visit to four Central Asia nations last month that sought to bolster Xinjiang's role as the linchpin of a revitalized Silk Road, President Xi Jinping vowed to continue the battle against what he described as the "three forces" of separatism, terrorism and religious extremism, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
In 1994, the Turkish parliament made a similar ruling with regards a number of Kurdish parliamentarians, eventually charging eight of them with treason and separatism for alleged collaboration with the PKK, according to a Human Rights Watch report at the time.
Parama Roy has interpreted that Nargis's legendary status as the titular Mother India is due to Hinduisation of the role and her real-life marriage with a Hindu; she is, according to Roy, scripted as a renouncer of Muslim separatism in the film.
But according to some of the leaked documents, it has decided that it will allow white nationalism and white separatism, which Black history scholars say is indistinguishable and inseparable from white supremacy.
BEIJING — A prominent ethnic Mongolian dissident imprisoned in China on charges of espionage and "separatism" was released last week when his 15-year term was up, but he remains missing along with his son and wife, according to human rights groups.
"According to the Ukrainian central authorities and the international community, this referendum is completely illegal and an act of separatism," VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky said in his latest dispatch from the ground.
According to those optimists, the result of the 1995 referendum was not so much a narrow escape for federalism as a final, abortive fling for separatism.
"This will give rise to separatism in your country, and in the future you will have many more problems than we have in Georgia today," he said, according to the Interfax news agency.
