Gunmen killed a farmer today who was acquitted of killing a separatist leader in 1984.

Saddam did negotiate an agreement in 1970 with separatist Kurdish leaders, giving them autonomy, but the agreement broke down.

Protest called up by a separatist leader turned violent and the administration declared a curfew like situation lasted for over 47 days.

Many separatist leaders were put under house arrest or jailed.

The negotiations are to take place in Azerbaijan, Turkey, and other countries where separatist leaders have sought refuge.

A separatist leader hotly denied that and the matter seems to have been dropped.

The West Pakistani politicians and the military began to see him as a separatist leader.

"We are not going to be unreasonable," the separatist leader, Zelimkhan Yanderbiyev, said today.

A separatist leader, Shabir Siddiqui, was reportedly among the dead.

Most separatist leaders have tempered their demands in the last six months.