In some cases, these policies triggered bitter conflicts and further ethnic separatism.

The threat of ethnic and religious separatism is also unresolved and poses fundamental issues, for both Iraq and the future of America's military role there.

Those scourges exist, but Africa has managed to keep a fifth affliction, ethnic separatism, from shattering national boundaries.

In 1958, however, the Chinese government convicted him of crimes relating to sedition and ethnic separatism, sentencing him to two years of re-education through labor.

The provincial government also passed legislation banning the use of the internet to incite ethnic separatism.

She wrote, "The goals of the multicultural game are ethnic separatism, ethnic privilege and ethnic power."

But that spirit could easily give way to renewed ethnic separatism.

The politics of the status quo has also failed so far to deal adequately with the rise of regional and ethnic separatism.

This is the only way to stop the ethnic cleansing and extreme separatism.

The 1863 January Uprising in Poland raised tensions around the issue of ethnic separatism in general even further.