Word: secessionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hints of the fury that struck East Timor had been apparent since January. When Habibie unexpectedly offered locals a referendum on independence, militia groups who wanted continued ties with Jakarta began to organize and acquire guns. Even before the vote, independence campaigners were intimidated and dozens killed. Although the militias...
Just two days before Stepashin was fired, some 1,500 Islamic militants armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, bazookas, self-propelled antiaircraft guns and armor marched into Dagestan from Chechnya. The move was the latest, most violent shot in a creeping war that has been ravaging Dagestan since Russia's invasion...
Spring rioting by mob marks Lampoon's "secession from the civilized world."
"I think [Kosovo] should remain a part of Serbia and consequently a part of Yugoslavia. There should be some changes in the civil rights of people who live there, but I'm strongly opposed to secession or any independence as a separate state," she said.
Now Milosevic has again chosen war. Like a shark that has to keep moving to stay alive, he is willfully exposing the withered state of Serbia to the might of NATO for the sake of his own power. As always, he gambled that talk, hopes, threats and indecision would wear...