1. Nationalist Sinhalese leaders passed a number of chauvinistic laws that discriminated against Tamils in the fields of language, education and employment. 2. The differences of opinion among nationalist leaders added to the problem. 3. The nationalist leader did something similar with the cultural detritus of the past to create a new national group. 4. The nationalist leader often had to invent a unifying culture as well as lead. 5. Whole provinces were deprived of their nationalist leaders. 6. Armenian nationalist leaders warned that any attempt by troops to disarm the militias operating there might produce a bloodbath. 7. Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader. 8. The trial of the Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Khmara, which began in May, was repeatedly postponed as Khmara claimed that the judges were biased against him. 9. And there are suspicions that Croatia under its stridently nationalist leader will try to annex southern and western parts of Bosnia to form a greater Croatia. 10. Another video segment showed a Serbian nationalist leader accusing Milosevic of arming and supporting Serbian paramilitary groups that fought in Croatia and Bosnia. |
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