41.   The Islamic separatists are fighting for an independent Kashmir or merger with Muslim Pakistan.

42.   The Tamil separatists are fighting for a separate nation, or at least autonomy, to preserve their language, culture and economic opportunities.

43.   The separatists are fighting for a homeland for the minority Tamils, saying they are discriminated against by the Sinhalese majority.

44.   The separatists have been fighting for three days to retake their former stronghold.

45.   The separatists have been fighting to retake their former stronghold.

46.   The separatists have long fought for a Muslim homeland in the south, which borders Malaysia.

47.   The Tamil separatists are fighting for a homeland in the north and east.

48.   Armenian separatists fought a bitter eight-year war against neighbouring Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is mainly populated by Armenians.

49.   The separatists have been fighting to gain independence from Moscow.

50.   None of them was a Chechen, either, despite repeated claims from the Kremlin that Chechen separatists were fighting alongside the Taliban and al-Qaeda.