China sees the Dalai Lama as a separatist, for example, while in the past few years President Obama has made strong statements in support of Tibet and the Dalai Lama.
The small, virulently anti-separatist Citizens party, for example, tripled its representation to nine seats.The fallout in terms of social cohesion in this wealthy and normally placid north-eastern region of Spain is entirely unpredictable.
And the Islamist fanatics of Boko Haram in north-eastern Nigeria seek to hold territory there as part of their would-be caliphate.In other places where prosperity and stability have increased, separatist fervour has faded: for example, in oil-rich Angola's little Cabinda enclave, Senegal's Casamance regionand in a once-British coastal strip of mainly Francophone Cameroon.
In Canada, for example, Québec separatists claim that the French language and francophone culture are persistently erased within an overwhelmingly dominant Anglo-American continent, despite the efforts of the Canadian state to maintain its official bilingualism and to integrate Québec into the nation.
By the summer of 2008, relations had deteriorated so much that Mr. Lukashenko was clearly out of step with Russia's neighborhood agenda, refusing, for example, to recognize the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia as independent states.
Kazakhstan, for example, has sent a few separatists wanted by China back to Xinjiang.
The FBI suggests its mapping program was designed to protect racial communities, But it is hard to see how tracking the growth of the Black community in Georgia would protect it, for example, from so-called "Black separatists," when overwhelming statistics from the Justice Department revealed that blacks are mostly victimized by whites in hate crimes.
One of the most prominent fighters in the Abkhaz war against Georgia, for example, was Shamil Basayev, the Chechen separatist and terrorist who became Russia's most wanted man.
For example cases killed civilians, members of security authorities and separatists.
His government has tried to reduce discrimination against the Chinese minority, for example, and has at least tried to talk to separatists.
