15 Assassination in Indonesia A leading candidate for governor of Indonesia's troubled Aceh province, a prominent Islamic university rector who has opposed use of the military to resolve a separatist issue, was assassinated.
However, the separatist issue is not going away and Artur Mas, the current Catalan leader, has vowed to go ahead with an independence vote regardless.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the leader of a hard-line faction of Kashmiri separatists, issued a critical reaction on YouTube, saying that the overall package failed to resolve the core dispute.
His unit is still active, however, and on 14 August, separatist press issues a statement about their recent military victories.
Last month, Corsican lawmakers called on the French government to close down radical mosques on the island, hours after an underground Corsican separatist movement issued a threat against Islamic extremists in the aftermath of the attack in Nice, where 85 people were killed when a lorry ploughed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day.
Ukraine's security service said on Wednesday it had intercepted communications showing that Russian commanders in the separatist east had issued pro-Kremlin militants with "shoot-to-kill" orders.
Separatist commander Igor Strelkov issued a recruitment appeal on YouTube.
In the 70's, Mr. Jutra, a devout separatist, deliberately skirted political issues in his work, and suffered criticism for it.
But Mr Ramazanzadeh's tenure has coincided with an end to the practice of arresting Sunni Kurdish clerics suspected of separatist tendencies.The governor enthusiastically issues permits for the performance of Kurdish plays and music.
In a casual interview after a literary event, Mr Tremblay berated separatist leaders for putting economic issues above cultural ones.
