1.   Both have lost substantial territory in separatist wars since the Soviet breakup, have had governments fall in coups and are burdened by large refugee populations.

2.   Abu Sayyaf is a minor group in a long-running Muslim separatist war in the south of the Philippines, an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nation.

3.   But British Columbia has also produced some of the most fanatical supporters of the separatist war in Punjab.

4.   For years, many Turks have suspected that government agencies were using gangs of killers to help suppress dissidents and Kurdish rebels waging a separatist war in southeastern Turkey.

5.   He predicted that his firing would lead to a resumption of the separatist war in the southern republic.

6.   In the Philippines a centuries-old Muslim separatist war on the southern island of Mindanao has flared into increased violence in the past two years.

7.   It is unclear whether this sad and battered territory can survive the endgame to its long separatist war.

8.   One is Syria, which sponsors Kurdish guerrillas who are waging a brutal separatist war in southeastern Turkey.

9.   A land mine blew up two patrol jeeps of a crack antiterrorist outfit Tuesday in Kashmir, where Muslim insurgents are fighting a separatist war.

10.   Among those killed and injured in the U.S. attacks on Afghanistan were Pakistanis training to join a Muslim separatist war in neighboring India.