1.   Had India tried to reason with the Kashmiris rather than crush them, the secessionist rebellion might well be over today.

2.   Moscow went to war to suppress a secessionist rebellion in Chechnya, then essentially conceded military defeat while refusing to accept Chechen independence.

3.   Washington has stayed out of the fray, insisting that it views the secessionist rebellion as an internal Russian affair.

4.   Police in Papua New Guinea questioned the leader Saturday of a mercenary force hired by the government to quash a secessionist rebellion.

5.   Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan has been embroiled in a political crisis for hiring mercenaries to quell a secessionist rebellion.

6.   Police in Papua New Guinea detained the leader Saturday of a mercenary force hired by the government to quash a secessionist rebellion.

7.   A decade-long secessionist rebellion on the island ended in a precarious cease-fire last year.

8.   Christopher spoke to reporters hours after Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin called for immediate peace talks to end the secessionist rebellion.

9.   Chan has been embroiled in a political crisis for hiring mercenaries to quell a secessionist rebellion.

10.   Demoralized bands of haggard Chechen fighters staved off a ferocious new onslaught by Russian troops who vowed to take the capital and end the secessionist rebellion.