However, within China a small group of ethnic separatists have taken advantage of this opportunity to stir up trouble and are acting like buffoons.

He was criticized for his "support for ethnic nationalist separatists" by Wang Lequan.

Many refugees said their neighborhoods were shelled by Government forces retaliating against ethnic Albanian separatists.

They threatened further action if the Yugoslavs do not agree to hold negotiations with the province's ethnic Albanian separatists.

There he imposed order and brokered a peace agreement between warring ethnic Russian separatists and the new Government.

The bombing followed a violent crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in the province.

The war, between ethnic Albanian separatists and Serbian forces, killed thousands of people, mostly on the Albanian side.

It was the most serious fighting in the Serbian province since the peace talks with ethnic Albanian separatists ended inconclusively last week.

Many of them were ethnic or religious separatists anyway.

The amalgam of nationhood that holds a diverse people together is being eroded by ethnic and religious separatists.