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separatist
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
sep·a·ra·tist
/ ˈsep(ə)rətist/
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n.
a person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender:
religious separatists.
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adj.
of or relating to such separation or those supporting it:
a separatist rebellion.
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; ...western Punjab state, killing two people and wounding 13. It was a rare occurrence in a region where a Sikh separatist rebellion was put down in the 1980s with massive police force, arrests and long-term imprisonment of insurgent leaders...
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Turmoil in Moldova.(News)
; ...on Sunday to denounce communist President Vladimir Voronin's plans to overhaul the constitution to end a decade-long separatist rebellion. About 7,000 protesters said Voronin's call for a federal state to incorporate the breakaway Dnestr region, run by hardline...
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OPPOSING VIEW
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