In August, he ordered an attack on separatists in South Ossetia, one of two territories — Abkhazia is the other — where Georgia and Russia had been locked in a 15-year standoff.
Pakistani intelligence officers even claim to have intercepted phone calls "from Kandahar" ordering an attack on 15 June claimed by separatists in Baluchistan province on one of Pakistan's most revered national monuments – a colonial-era house where the country's founder spent much of the last few week of his life.
Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images A young man helps another one during clashes between pro-Ukraine football fans and pro-Russian separatists in Odessa on Friday.
(AP) SRI LANKA: TOWN RECAPTURED The military announced that it had recaptured Chavakachcheri, on the northern Jaffna Peninsula, from the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in one of a series of offensives to reclaim territory that it lost in April.
Kosovo's declaration created immediate ripples in the former Soviet Union, where small, Russian-backed separatist areas — one in Moldova and two in the republic of Georgia — have existed since the early 1990s.
After years of telling Kashmiris not to vote in Indian elections, Mr. Sofi, a Kashmiri separatist, has found himself a candidate in one.
Such generalisations prevent Ukrainians from truly understanding the crisis, writes Nataliya Gumenyuk of Hromadske TV, one of the few Ukrainian journalists who travels to separatist-held territory.Covering a conflict in one's own country raises complex moral dilemmas.
Mr. Isaias, 61, led a guerrilla movement that built underground cities and trained women to fight in one of the few successful separatist movements on the continent.
Friedan was right in one way: the Van Dykes and their separatist comrades had ideas that made those of the National Organization for Women look like an appeasement policy.
