By 1987 the party was again controlled by militant separatists, and, when there was a resurgence in support for Quebec separatism in the 1990s, the party's hopes revived.
In recent years, Moscow increased support for the separatists, and when Mr. Saakashvili ordered an attack on the South Ossetian capital, Russia sent its army to drive out Georgian forces.
He has accused the Liberals of selling out the country to separatists (in fact, in his first term he sometimes relied on separatist votes and when in opposition the Conservatives similarly offered to replace a Liberal minority government with help from the Bloc and the NDP).
When al-Qaeda bombed Madrid's train stations in 2004 the Spanish government wrongly blamed the Basque separatist movement Eta, and when the Norwegian neo-fascist gunman Anders Breivik murdered 77 people in Oslo, many immediately assumed it to be the work of jihadists.
Fighting was raging in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces when the aircraft was downed and many western experts and governments blamed the rebels.
One woman, a psychologist, said people were tired of the constant stress, and when the separatist gunmen asked them to come out to the barricades recently to support them, no one came.
Those tensions flared in the 1920s, when Ossetians sided with the Bolsheviks against Georgian separatists, and again in the early 1990s, when Ossetians resisted the Georgian push for independence from the Soviet Union.
The zoo reopened in June after a 4bn CFA franc (£5.1m) renovation and a delay because of the crisis last year, when Tuareg separatists and hardline Islamists took over the north, precipitating a coup by disgruntled Malian officers in the capital.
The Boeing 777 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17 last year — the height of the conflict between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia separatists — when it crashed in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. .
Most victims were pro-Russian separatists killed when the building they were in caught fire.
Russia briefly seemed to have scored a strategic and public relations victory in its war with Chechen separatists when the pro-Kremlin Chechen government announced yesterday that the leader of the rebels, Doku Umarov, had surrendered.
