31.   Many Acehnese believe the gas operations are the reason Jakarta cracks down so hard on the independence movement.

32.   Moreover, the former Soviet air force general leading the independence movement, Dzhokhar Dudayev, is no Jefferson Davis.

33.   Most of the rebel armed forces are under the command of powerful and well financed field commanders who have injected Islamic extremism into the independence movement.

34.   Most Serbs in Kosovo are hard-line nationalists, seeing their very existence threatened by the Kosovo independence movement led by the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army.

35.   Most Quebec seats are held by the Bloc Qubecois, the national arm of the Quebec independence movement, dedicated to tearing Canada apart.

36.   Officers acquired lucrative business interests, and were accused of abusing human rights when they annexed East Timor and suppressed various independence movements.

37.   Others function in isolation, waging local independence movements or kidnapping civilians for ransom in troubled pockets of the world.

38.   Other protests erupted elsewhere in the capital and around the country, including the provinces of Aceh and Irian Jaya, both home to their own independence movements.

39.   Politically, the supremacy of the governing Nationalist Party, long committed to reunification with the mainland, is being undermined by a growing independence movement.

40.   Resentment for this exploitation has laid the ground for independence movements and outbreaks of violence.