1.   A separatist rebellion has been simmering in Chechnya, a Muslim region in the Caucasus, for more than a decade.

2.   He said he would personally handle the Islamic separatist rebellion in the Sumatran province of Aceh, where he commands respect as a Muslim leader.

3.   Milosevic is trying to crush the separatist rebellion in the Serbian province of Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians outnumber Serbs nine to one and have long resisted Serbian rule.

4.   Most notably on Thursday, she apologized for human rights abuses committed by the military in combating two separatist rebellions and called on the armed forces to reform itself.

5.   This may make her more likely than her predecessor to endorse force to quell separatist rebellions.

6.   Pakistan supports the separatist rebellion in Kashmir, the only Muslim majority state in India.

7.   Abu Sayyaf was created just a decade ago by young Muslim guerrillas disillusioned with a protracted separatist rebellion being waged by older warriors.

8.   Aceh is one of three Indonesian provinces hit by separatist rebellions.

9.   Both women now preside over nations besieged by economic and political crises and burdened by separatist rebellions.

10.   He condemned human rights abuses by members of the security forces, who are fighting a growing separatist rebellion in the province.