21.   Tamil separatists said on Thursday they will not release the eight crewmen of a ferry they seized unless Sri Lanka frees two imprisoned female guerrillas.

22.   Tamil separatists said Thursday they will not release the eight crewmen of a ferry they seized unless Sri Lanka frees two imprisoned female guerrillas.

23.   The elections were won by a pro-India Muslim party, which the separatists say does not represent the aspirations of Kashmiris.

24.   The former paratroop general was virtually the only Russian political leader that the separatists said they trusted.

25.   The Kremlin-backed candidate, Doku Zavgayev, won overwhelmingly, but separatists have said they will not acknowledge the results.

26.   The Kremlin-backed candidate, Doku Zavgayev, won overwhelmingly, but separatists have said they will refuse to acknowledge the results.

27.   The separatists said they reached an oral agreement for a truce that was to start at noon Wednesday.

28.   The separatists said on Tuesday night that they will carry out the threat if Indian soldiers continue to search for the hostages in the Himalayan mountains in northern India.

29.   The separatists said they discussed ways of making a truce stick.

30.   The separatists said Dudayev was killed in a Russian airstrike Sunday and buried late Tuesday in a secret location in the foothills of the North Caucasus Mountains.