separatist
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But Pakistan's least-developed province grapples with a growing separatist insurgency, which has also targeted mining investments by China.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Satluj is inspired by the life of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, who investigated allegations of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings during Punjab's separatist insurgency - and then he himself disappeared.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Critics, including state officials, have accused her movement of amplifying narratives that benefit separatist groups – allegations she has consistently rejected.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Forces at Mali's Tessalit military base, a "super-camp" near the Algerian border, surrendered and were scattering southward, an official from the Tuareg-dominated FLA separatist group told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
A few minutes before the bell rang, a student asked what role mental disorders might have played in separatist movements.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Stimson was previously jailed in the UK in 2015 for joining pro-Russian separatists in the east of Ukraine.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
When a judge dealt another blow to separatists in May, Smith appealed the ruling and called the referendum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
While she is correct that the separatists who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620 eschewed the pejorative term Puritan, she errantly suggests that they called themselves Pilgrims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
She says that among the men was Yurii Temerbek, a Ukrainian who had been a local traffic policeman and had joined the Russian-backed separatists.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Their experience in Dunmore’s War led the Shawnees to ally with the British against the separatists in 1777.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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