At 89, he is still keen: in 1995, before the referendum, he was among 40 prominent Frenchmen who signed a public letter of encouragement to the separatists, and this summer he was urging France's postal authorities to print a stamp commemorating de Gaulle's outburst.
Both the Separatists and the non-Separatists were congregationalist.
At a recent briefing for foreign journalists, a Chinese official gave the following explanation for not using Mr. Chen's name: "Lee Teng-hui and Lu Hsiu-lien are diehard separatists and incurable in this regard, so we name them," he said.
The weekly Novaya Gazeta asserted that the sequence of events bore the bloody fingerprints of the separatists and dismissed Chechen denials: "This is the standard approach of Chechen fighters".
Ukraine's government claims the plane was shot down by separatists and released an audio they claim proved this.
In a country where civil war has raged for more than 50 years, in which guerrilla separatists and state sanctioned paramilitaries have been accused of horrific war crimes, this is no idle threat.
Separatists and nationalists blamed the other for the shooting.
They were followed by local armed separatists and ordinary civilians.
This was an important moment, marking a formal end to an on-off war against separatists and radicals of various Islamic tinges that had lasted for 15 years.
There are separatists and tribesmen and army units.
The thesis presented here differs not only from the claims of the "separatists" and of evolutionary theists.
