It is unclear whether this sad and battered territory can survive a potential end to its long separatist war.

A long-running, low-level separatist war in the southern Casamance region has claimed hundreds of lives.

For 20 years this province, called Casamance, has been embroiled in a separatist war.

Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting a separatist war there for 14 years.

That is an option that clearly nobody wants, but there is little room for compromise where 13 months of separatist war have cost 30,000 lives.

This was the latest attack linked to a decade-long separatist war in Chechnya.

Farms, many deserted after nearly a decade of separatist war and security sweeps, will no longer offer help, he said.

But it has never submitted to Indonesian rule, and an estimated 200,000 people have died in the separatist war.

He did not mention Chechnya, but the attack bore the characteristics of previous bombings attributed to the separatist war there.

The state of Jammu and Kashmir, with 6 seats, will not vote because its people have been caught up in a separatist war.