1.   Separatist rebels have used terrorism to advance their cause in the region.

2.   In Aceh Province hundreds of people were reported killed and hundreds more missing as a result of fighting between the armed forces and separatist rebels.

3.   And its ability to act swiftly on its plan to end an intractable civil war with the separatist Tamil rebels has also been weakened.

4.   During the past couple of weeks, Turkish troops have attacked Kurdish separatist rebel groups that use northern Iraq as a base.

5.   ExxonMobil has tried to maintain some neutrality in the conflict, though it says it has never had direct contact with the separatist rebel group, known as GAM.

6.   Fighting broke out in July between troops of the Papua New Guinea government and separatist rebels of the BOUGAINVILLE Revolutionary Army.

7.   For the moment, the militias have the initiative in East Timor, and the separatist rebels and their civilian supporters have gone underground.

8.   He sent in the troops last spring as a separatist rebel movement began gaining headway.

9.   He said the houses were destroyed last February in a grenade attack by Serbs battling separatist rebels in the village.

10.   Insisting nothing has changed in its military campaign against separatist rebels, the Kremlin yesterday played down a shakeup among its top field generals in Chechnya.