Sentence examples for separatists were then from inspiring English sources

The south of Yemen, briefly a communist state, was united with the north in 1990 and southern separatists were then beaten militarily when they tried to secede in 1994.

The separatists were then angered by the government decision to scrap the special status of their two regions, Donetsk and Luhansk.

Days later, a group of terrorists working for Shamil Basayev, the one-legged separatist military commander who was then Russia's most wanted man, stormed a public school in the small town of Beslan, in a nearby republic, leading to the deaths of more than 300 people, most of them schoolchildren, their parents and their teachers.

The government made clear early on that it would not try to prosecute Pakistanis who fought for West Pakistan against the separatists of East Pakistan (as Bangladesh was then known) in 1971.

He said then that although there was no evidence, he was certain that Chechen separatists were involved.

Chechen separatists were blamed.

The eastern Ukraine separatists were not rescued by Russian troops.

Kurdish separatists were blamed for the attack.

Separatists were aiming for complete autonomy, and to that end there were separatist food co-ops — such as the memorably named New York Lesbian Food Conspiracy — separatist publishing houses, and separatist credit unions.

At least five separatists were reported killed.

The separatists were enjoying the covert support of the OSS.