And now Mr Vajpayee has made what looks like a characteristic gesture on Kashmir, the Muslim-majority state over which India and Pakistan tussle: a unilateral ceasefire in India's war against separatist guerrillas during the forthcoming holy month of Ramadan.
Radovan Karadzic, the poet and psychiatrist who styled himself as the Bosnian Serbs' separatist president during the war of 1992-5, will spend the rest of his life in prison after his sentence was increased on appeal.
Last week the Yemeni army's newspaper, 26 September, claimed that Malik Harhra, one of the Britons who is facing trial, had been actively involved in the southern separatist movement during the internal conflict of 1994, and fled to London when the war ended in defeat.
Like the 1864 Constitution by the separatist government during the Civil War, the legislature adopted the 1902 Constitution without ratification by the electorate.
Among the Brazilian land barons were David Canabarro and Antônio de Sousa Neto, both allies of Flores and former separatist rebels during the Ragamuffin War that had ravaged Rio Grande do Sul from 1835 until 1845.
Kiir, a Dinka from Warrap, had fought with the Anyanya separatist army during the First Sudanese Civil War; in later years with the SPLM/A, he'd served as Garang's trusted second-in-command.
The clown turned to his old friend Iosif Kobzon, a singer known as "Russia's Frank Sinatra," who was banned from the European Union last year after he sang a duet with the leader of pro-Russian separatists during a concert in eastern Ukraine.
The mood there is nasty, Ostrovsky told me; a friend of his, he said, had been killed by Russian separatists during a pro-Ukraine meeting.
Agent May Face Trial A federal appeals court ruled, 6 to 5, that an F.B.I. sharpshooter, Lon T. Horiuchi, could be tried on Idaho state charges of manslaughter in the death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of Randy Weaver, a white separatist, during a standoff at the family's cabin in Ruby Ridge in 1992.
