Indeed, it fought a 15-year war against Kurdish separatists that ended only in 1999.
Turkey launched a military offensive in the predominantly Kurdish southeast in retaliation for an ambush by Kurdish separatists that killed 13 soldiers on Thursday.
In Turkey, in particular, the authorities have been fighting a decades-long campaign against Kurdish separatists that has claimed about 40,000 lives.
The stabbings, said Mr Meng, were part of the same campaign by Uighur separatists that lay behind the riots in July.Urumqi's leaders had reached the same conclusion.
Many Catalans are tired of the uneasy three-way coalition of socialists, greens and separatists that has governed the region since 2003.
Aceh gained greater autonomy in return for an end to the armed struggle waged by separatists that largely faded following the 2004 tsunami.
A1 Crackdown on Indonesia Rebels President Abdurrahman Wahid ordered a severe crackdown on separatists that left at least 10 people dead.
Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Interior Ministry, said Russia had recently supplied mobile missile systems to the separatists that are capable of taking down a plane at that altitude.
Thailand has seen many violent attacks in recent years, particularly in a long-running insurgency by Muslim separatists that has killed over 5,000 in the country's south.
A patch of not sleeping with anyone is often a golden era of productivity and self-development, but also you can find yourself becoming so fussy and separatist that it's almost like you're testing yourself for how long you can not have sex for.
